A Greek Reader for Schools - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865162670 ISBN 13: 9780865162679

Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers,U.S., 1999

Synopsis

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).

Edition details

• Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers,U.S.
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: Greek, Modern (post 1453)
• ISBN 10: 0865162670
• ISBN 13: 9780865162679
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 146
• Editor: Freeman Charles Earle, Lowe W.D.