Introduction to Attic Greek - 2nd Edition by Donald J Mastronarde (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Thoroughly revised and expanded, Introduction to Attic Greek, 2nd Edition gives student and instructors the most comprehensive and accessible presentation of ancient Greek available. The text features:

- Full exposure to the grammar and morphology that students will encounter in actual texts

- Self-contained instructional chapters, with challenging, carefully tailored exercises

- Progressively more complex chapters to build the student's knowledge of declensions, tenses, and constructions by alternating emphasis on morphology and syntax

- Readings based on actual texts and include unadapted passages from Xenophon, Lysias, Plato, Aristophanes, and Thucydides.

- Concise introduction to the history of the Greek language

- Composite list of verbs with principal parts, and an appendix of all paradigms

- Greek-English and English-Greek glossaries



Additional Resources:

-Robust online supplements for teaching and learning available at atticgreek.org

-Answer Key to exercises also available from UC Press (978-0-520-27574-4)

Review Quotes

"Introduction to Attic Greek is a superb description of Greek grammar."-- "Classical Journal"

"A mine of information."-- "Classical Review"

About the Author

Donald J. Mastronarde is Melpomene Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his many books are The Art of Euripides: Dramatic Technique and Social Context, Euripides, Medea, and Euripides, Phoenissae.