Reprinted by arrangement with Oxford University Press, this reader is a perfect vehicle for students transitioning from a grammar text to reading adapted Greek. The selections are chosen for their accessibility and facility to encourage a quick reading. Excerpts from Aesop to Plato strengthen reading and translations skills while introducing the intermediate student to key works from the classical Greek canon.
Features
Adapted readings in Greek from Aesop, Herodotus, Lucian, Plato, Theophrastus, Thucydides, and Xenophon
Succinct background for each author and synopses for each Greek reading
End notes explain difficult grammar and syntax and initially identify less familiar verb forms
Index of Proper Names
Complete Greek-to-English Vocabulary
Author Bio
W. D. Lowe, LittD, MA provided the foundation for this work. Military commitments necessitated by World War I intervened and he asked C. E. Freeman, MA, to complete the reader for publication. The English classicists also collaborated on Livy: Rome and Her Kings, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers (1998). Lowe also authored Selections in Attic Greek from Herodotus: The War of Greece and Persia, Bolchazy-Carducci (1984).
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