Elementary classical Greek / Frederick Williams.

This ed. originally published: 1991.

Includes index.

1. The Alphabet -- 2. Accent -- 3. The Definite Article, Regular Adjectives, Second-Declension Nouns -- 4. First-Declension Nouns, Some Uses of the Genitive and Dative, Adjectives as Abstract Nouns -- 5. Proclitics and Enclitics -- 6. Regular Verbs, Present, Future, and Imperfect Indicative -- 7. Regular Third-Declension Nouns, Time within Which, Imperfect of [epsilon][iota][mu][iota] -- 8. Irregular and Neuter Nouns of the Third Declension -- 9. First and Second Aorist of Regular Verbs, Infinitive in Indirect Statement -- 10. Comparative and Superlative Adjectives and Adverbs -- 11. Demonstratives, Relative Pronoun, Indirect Statement with [omicron][tao][iota] or [omega][sigma] -- 12. -[mu][iota] Verbs -- 13. Contract Verbs, Personal Pronouns -- 14. Participles -- 15. The Subjunctive Mood -- 16. Contract Future, Adjectives in [upsilon][sigma] and -[eta][sigma], [upsilon]-stem Nouns -- 17. The Optative Mood -- 18. Purpose with the Subjunctive and Optative -- 19. The Other Two Voices: Middle and Passive -- 20. Subjunctive and Optative M/P, Contrary-to-Fact Conditions, Review of Conditions -- 21. The Fourth Principal Part -- 22. The Fifth Principal Part -- 23. The Sixth Principal Part and Verbals -- 24. The Imperative Mood -- Supplementary Readings -- App. A. Prepositions -- App. B. Numbers -- App. C. The Principal Parts of Several Important Greek Verbs, a Synopsis of [gamma][rho][alpha][phi][omega] -- Greek-English Vocabulary -- English-Greek Vocabulary.

"Elementary Classical Greek stresses a clear and orderly presentation of the language, accompanied by individual sentences or short passages that illustrate grammar, give practice in reading, and help build vocabulary. Drawing on decades of experience teaching classical Greek, Frederick Williams presents a text in which grammatical explanations are clear and succinct and the selected readings are varied, interesting, and useful. Included in the nearly one hundred reading passages are excerpts from Plato's Ion and Republic, Aristophanes' Clouds, and Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians." "The popular textbook is designed for a course meeting for two semesters. There are twenty-four lessons in all, with appendixes on prepositions, Greek numbers, and the Greek verb, plus Greek-English and English-Greek vocabularies, a grammatical index of subjects, and a list of Greek authors cited. Selected readings are presented first in simple, then more complex, language until the reader is led to the actual words of the ancient author - all within the same lesson. This elementary device helps bridge many of the difficult gaps between modern English and ancient Greek."--BOOK JACKET.