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Αncient Greek II: A 21st-Century Approach - cover image

Copyright

Philip S. Peek

ISBN

Paperback978-1-80511-472-7
Hardback978-1-80511-473-4
PDF978-1-80511-474-1
HTML978-1-80511-476-5
EPUB978-1-80511-475-8

Language

  • English

Dimensions

Paperback203 x 254 mm (7.99" x 10")
Hardback203 x 254 mm (7.99" x 10")

THEMA

  • 2AHA
  • YPCS
  • 4TC

BISAC

  • LIT004190
  • FOR033000
  • EDU029080

Keywords

  • elementary textbook
  • ancient Greek language
  • Greek words
  • the essential word endings
  • the eight parts of speech
  • grammatical concepts

    Αncient Greek II

    A 21st-Century Approach

    • Philip S. Peek (author)
    FORTHCOMING
    In this elementary textbook, Philip S. Peek draws on his twenty-five years of teaching experience to present the ancient Greek language in an imaginative and accessible way that promotes creativity, deep learning, and diversity.

    The course is built on three pillars: memory, analysis, and logic. Readers memorize the top 550 most frequently occurring ancient Greek words, the essential word endings, the eight parts of speech, and the grammatical concepts they will most frequently encounter when reading authentic ancient texts. Analysis and logic exercises enable the identification of clitics and full words as well as the translation and parsing of genuine ancient Greek sentences, with compelling reading selections in English and in Greek offering starting points for contemplation, debate, and reflection. A series of thirty entries by James F. Patterson, using a simplified morphophonemic approach to understanding language improve readers’ understanding of word formation, their vocabulary, and their ability to read and understand Ancient Greek.

    This combination of memory-based learning and concept- and skill-based learning gradually builds the confidence of the reader, teaching them how to learn by guiding them from a familiarity with the basics to proficiency in reading this beautiful language. Ancient Greek II: A 21st-Century Approach is written for high-school and university students, but is an instructive and rewarding text for anyone who wishes to learn ancient Greek.

    Endorsements

    A truly innovative approach to reading Classical Greek and appreciating it as a language. The grammar and syntax elements are not only clear but also scholarly with wide ranging examples from authors in prose and verse. I especially like the sections on word order and narratology which provide new perspectives. A breath of fresh air!

    Hilary Goy

    Table of Contents

    Module 31 – The Perfect and Pluperfect of ω-verbs and ἵστημι | Mixed Declension Adjectives | Dative of Agent

    Module 32 – The Imperative | Consonant Stems. Enclitics

    Module 33 – The Present, Future, and Aorist Active Participle | The Attributive Participle | The Future Participle of Purpose · The Genitive Absolute

    Module 34 – The Present, Future, Aorist Middle and Passive Participle | The Perfect Active, Middle, and Passive Participle | The Substantive Participle

    Module 35 – The Participle cont. | Τhe Supplementary Participle

    Module 36 – The Participle cont. | The Circumstantial Participle

    Module 37 – The Subjunctive | The Present and Aorist Subjunctive

    Module 38 – The Subjunctive cont. | Hortatory | Prohibitive | Deliberative | Emphatic Denial | Tentative Assertion

    Module 39 – The Optative

    Module 40 – The Subjunctive and the Optative in Purpose and Fear Clauses

    Module 41 – The Optative and the Subjunctive in Habitual, Potential, and Prospective Conditions

    Module 42 – Counterfactual and Neutral Conditions | Unrealizable Wishes

    Module 43 – Subordinate Clauses of Cause and Time

    Module 44 – Verbs of Judgment, Necessity, Obligation, and Seeming

    Module 45 – Indirect Statement: That-Clauses and Interrogative Clauses

    Module 46 – Subordinate Clauses in Indirect Question and Statement

    Module 47 – Word Order: Clitics and Full Words

    Module 48 – Word Order: Scheppers’ Colon Hypothesis

    Module 49 – Word Order and Continuity

    Module 50 – Word Order and Discontinuity

    Module 51 – Chiastic Word Order and Ring Composition

    Module 52 – Word Order and Tension

    Module 53 – Narratology I: Authors, Narrators, Narratees, Materials, Texts, Stories

    Module 54 – Narratology II: Focalization or Point of View and Text 1

    Module 55 – Narratology III: Focalization or Point of View and Text 2

    Module 56 – Narratology IV: Time 1

    Module 57 – Narratology V: Time 2

    Module 58 – Narratology VI: Time 3

    Module 59 – Narratology VII: Space

    Module 60 – Memory

    Appendix I: Case and Function Chart

    Appendix II: Vocabulary 1-550

    Appendix III: Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Pronoun Chart

    Appendix IV: Verb and Participle Chart NGDAV

    Appendix V: Verb and Participle Chart NAGDV

    Answer Key

    Index


    Contributors

    Philip S. Peek

    (author)
    Distinguished Teaching Professor of Classics at Bowling Green State University

    Philip S. Peek is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Classics at Bowling Green State University, where he teaches Ancient Greek, Latin, and Classical Civilization. He is interested in the stories we tell ourselves, those we tell each other, and how we interpret those told to us. He believes in many truths and many fictions and is amazed by how the false and true interact with each other. He is fascinated by creativity, translation, and the process of creating a dialogue between different cultures and time periods. He has published a two volume elementary textbook on how to read and interpret Ancient Greek (Open Book Publishers, 2021, https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0264, and 2024) and a textual commentary on book five of Herodotos’ Histories (U of O Press, 2018). He also has published in METAMORPHOSES three translations, the Alexis poem by Meleagros of Gadara (2019 Fall), Anakreon’s Thracian Filly poem (Spring 2020), and Meleagros’ poem, To A Bee (Spring 2020). He enjoys researching, teaching, translating, and writing about all things ancient Greek. When not at work, he may be found outside hiking, meditating, and enjoying the sounds of the multi-verse.