Donald J. Mastronarde 
Introduction to Attic Greek 

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)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

How To Use This Book


Introduction. The Ancient Greek Language and Attic Greek

Unit One. The Alphabet; Pronunciation

Unit Two. Accentuation

Unit Three. O-Declension Nouns; Prepositions I

Unit Four. A-Declension Nouns I; The Article

Unit Five. Present Active Indicative of O-Verbs

Unit Six. A-Declension Nouns II; Prepositions II

Unit Seven. Vowel-Declension Adjectives; Attribution and Predication

Unit Eight. Second Person Imperative; Prepositions III; Relative Pronoun and

Relative Clauses

Unit Nine. Present Infinitive; Two-Ending Adjectives

Unit Ten. Present of e?µ?; Some Uses of the Genitive and Dative

Unit Eleven. Present Middle/Passive Indicative

Unit Twelve. Adverbs; Conjunctions; Pronoun ??t?s; Pronominal Article; Prepositions IV

Unit Thirteen. Contract Verbs In -??; Demonstratives

Unit Fourteen. Consonant-Declension Nouns I

Unit Fifteen. Consonant-Declension Nouns II; Interrogative Pronoun

Unit Sixteen. Imperfect Indicative

Unit Seventeen. Indefinite ??s; Uses of the Accusative

Unit Eighteen. Future Active and Middle Indicative

Unit Nineteen. Aorist Active and Middle Indicative and Imperative

Unit Twenty. Tense and Aspect; Indirect Discourse

Unit Twenty-One. Consonant-Declension Nouns III; Personal Pronouns

Unit Twenty-Two. Consonant-Declension Adjectives

Unit Twenty-Three. Present System of ??-Verbs

Unit Twenty-Four. Athematic Aorists

Unit Twenty-Five. Adjectives With Variant Stems; Numerals; Reflexive and Reciprocal Pronouns; Result Constructions

Unit Twenty-Six. Participles: Formation and Declension

Unit Twenty-Seven. Uses of the Participle I

Unit Twenty-Eight. Uses of the Participle II; ??da

Unit Twenty-Nine. Aorist Passive and Future Passive

Unit Thirty. Contract Verbs In -?? and -??; Further Uses of the Genitive and Dative

Unit Thirty-One. Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs

Unit Thirty-Two. The Subjunctive

Unit Thirty-Three. Formation of the Optative

Unit Thirty-Four. Uses of the Optative; Indirect Discourse With ?t?; Indirect Questions and Indirect Interrogative

Unit Thirty-Five. Conditional Constructions

Unit Thirty-Six. Indicative With ??; Correlatives; More Particles

Unit Thirty-Seven. Perfect System Active

Unit Thirty-Eight. Perfect System Middle/Passive; A-Contract Nouns

Unit Thirty-Nine. Third Person Imperatives; Object Clauses With Verbs of Effort; Athematic Perfects

Unit Forty. O-Contract Nouns; Verbal Adjectives In -??s and -???s; Subordinate

Clauses In Indirect Discourse; Meanings of Prepositional Prefixes

Unit Forty-One. Temporal Clauses With ??s and the Like; ????; Attraction

Unit Forty-Two. Contract Vowel-Declension Adjectives; Attic Declension; Assimilation of Mood


Appendix A. Table of Contractions

Appendix B. Principal Parts

Appendix C. Paradigms

Greek – English Glossary

English – Greek Glossary

Index

Über den Autor

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.