Reading Greek : Grammar and Exercises (9781139633703) [2 ed.] 9780521698528

Table of contents :
Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

A Grammar and Exercises for Sections One-Twenty1

Alphabet and pronunciation

1–7 Grammatical Introduction

Part One

8–51 Section One

52–65 Section Two

66–76 Section Three

Part Two

77–100 Section Four

101–127 Section Five

128–149 Section Six

150–177 Section Seven

Part Three

178–188 Section Eight

189–211 Section Nine

212–219 Section Ten

Part Four

220–227 Section Eleven

228–248 Section Twelve

249–273 Section Thirteen

274–283 Section Fourteen

284–290 Section Fifteen

Part Five

291–306 Section Sixteen

307–328 Section Seventeen

329–332 Section Eighteen

Part Six

333–336 Section Nineteen

Part Seven

337–339 Section Twenty

B Reference Grammar

340 Preliminaries

341 The Greek alphabet

344 Accentuation

349 Homeric dialect – the main features

354 Nouns

360 Pronouns

362 Adjectives

366 Adverbs

367 The verb παύω with second aorist λαμβάνω in full

373 Contract verbs

376 Verbs in -μι in full

384 The endings of non-indicative forms (aspectual)

385 Irregular verbs

389 Important principal parts

390 Prepositions

391 Particles

392 ὡς (ὥς)

393 Participles

394 Infinitives

395 Impersonal verbs

396 Result clauses

397 Indirect speech

398 Temporal clauses

399 Purpose clauses

400 Verbs of fearing

401 Potential (polite) ἄν

402 Potential-conditionals

403 Wishes

404 Commands (orders)

405 Deliberatives

406 Subjunctive and optative usages compared

C Language Surveys

408 A brief history of the Greek language

412 Active, middle and passive voices

415 Aspect: present, aorist and perfect

420 Optative

422 Uses of the subjunctive

423 The uses of ἄν

426 Verbs in –ω and verbs in -μι

428 The negatives oὐ and μή

432 Morphology of the cases

437 Uses of the cases

445 Uses of the definite article

448 Vocabulary building

D A Total Greek-English Vocabulary of all Words to be Learnt

Finding the lexicon form of a verb

Total vocabulary

List of proper names

E English – Greek Vocabulary

F The Grammatical Index to Reading Greek

Index of Greek words