A Fundamental Greek Course

A Fundamental Greek Course is designed primarily for those who aim at laying a sound foundation for the study of Classical Greek, and for use by everyone who is fascinated with ancient Greek culture. Suited to advanced college-level and university students, syntactical rules and vocabulary have been carefully devised to give to students formidable panoply for mastery of the intricacies of ancient Greek. This book provides a background for comprehending the language of the eminent prose authors of Classical Greece — Thucydides, Plato, Isocrates, Xenophon, etc., as well as the works in Attic-style of the Hellenistic and Roman epochs, particularly those of the Second Sophistic, Plutarch and Dio Chrysostom, and provides excellent instruction for anyone wishing to study the Greek of the New Testament. The text serves as a stand-alone beginning course text or as a supplementary grammar text for use with any other beginning manual.

“[This is] a textbook that William Sanders Scarborough, America's first professional black classicist and author of First Lessons in Greek (1881), could admire as much as I do.”

-- Michele Valerie Ronnick, professor, Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Wayne State University

James I. A. Eezzuduemhoi was educated at Aristotelian University, Thessalonika, Greece, earning a Bachelor of Literature degree in classics, linguistics, Byzantine language and literature, and Modern Greek language and literature. He took a Bachelor of Arts degree in ancient history, Latin and classical Greek from the University of London as an external candidate, and a Ph.D. in classics at the National and Capodistrian University, Athens. He served as dean, School of Humanities and head of the Department of History, Federal College of Education, Yola, Gongola State, and Chief Federal Inspector of Education, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria. He authored The Ancient World, A Simplified History for Schools, and An Ideal Hegemon, in Ancient Greek Literature. Glenn Storey took a B.A. in Ancient Greek at Columbia College, Columbia University, New York. He then took an Honours B.A. and M.A. in Litterae Humaniores, Classical Greats, at Trinity College, Oxford, before studying anthropology (archaeology) at the Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, taking an M.A. and Ph.D. He currently serves as a professor in the departments of classics and anthropology at the University of Iowa, where he teaches courses as diverse as Elementary Classical Greek, Ancient Sports and Leisure, Method and Theory in Archaeology, and Anthropology and Contemporary World Problems. He is editor of Urbanism in the Preindustrial World: Cross-Cultural Approaches.

A Fundamental Greek Course is designed primarily for those who aim at laying a sound foundation for the study of Classical Greek, and for use by everyone who is fascinated with ancient Greek culture. Suited to advanced college-level and university students, syntactical rules and vocabulary have been carefully devised to give to students formidable panoply for mastery of the intricacies of ancient Greek. This book provides a background for comprehending the language of the eminent prose authors of Classical Greece -- Thucydides, Plato, Isocrates, Xenophon, etc., as well as the works in Attic-style of the Hellenistic and Roman epochs, particularly those of the Second Sophistic, Plutarch and Dio Chrysostom, and provides excellent instruction for anyone wishing to study the Greek of the New Testament. The text serves as a stand-alone beginning course text or as a supplementary grammar text for use with any other beginning manual.

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