A Fundamental Greek Course, 9780761848615
Paperback
This book is designed primarily to lay a sound foundation for the study of Classical Greek and for use by everyone who is fascinated with ancient Greece. Suited to advanced college-level and university students, syntactical rules and vocabulary are carefully devised to help students master the intri…

A Fundamental Greek Course

  • Paperback

    584 pages

  • Release Date

    5 December 2009

Summary

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 author…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780761848615
ISBN-10:0761848614
Author:James I.A. Eezzuduemhoi, Glenn Storey
Publisher:University Press of America
Imprint:University Press of America
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:584
Release Date:5 December 2009
Weight:932g
Dimensions:232mm x 155mm x 36mm
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Critics Review

[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.

[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

About The Author

James I.A. Eezzuduemhoi

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.

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