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Ancient Greek I : A 21st Century Approach.

In this elementary textbook, Philip S. Peek draws on his twenty-five years of teaching experience to present the ancient Greek language in an imaginative and accessible way that promotes creativity, deep learning, and diversity.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peek, Philip S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • My Teaching Philosophy
  • For Instructors
  • For Students
  • Dialects
  • Moral Philosophy
  • Pronunciation
  • Some Tips on Using This Book
  • Vocabulary
  • Vowel Length
  • A Word on the Title
  • To Instructors and Students
  • The Greek Alphabet
  • The Alphabet
  • Alphabet Chart
  • Pronunciation
  • Memorize the Names of the Alphabet
  • Long and Short Vowel Sounds
  • Memorize the Long and Short Vowel Sounds
  • Diphthongs
  • Pronunciation of Diphthongs
  • Memorize the Sounds of the Diphthongs
  • Rough and Smooth Breathings
  • Memorize the Letters of the Alphabet
  • Orthography
  • Etymology Corner I by Dr. E. Del Chrol
  • More Sounds and Punctuation
  • Iota Subscript and Adscript
  • Gamma Clusters
  • Punctuation
  • Capitalization
  • Who Were the Greeks?
  • Greek Dialects
  • Etymology Corner II by Dr. E. Del Chrol
  • Accents and Accenting Verbs I
  • Why Learn Accents?
  • Accent
  • Orthography
  • Syllabification
  • Vowel Length
  • Recessive and Persistent Accent
  • Possibilities of Accent
  • Accenting Verbs of Three Syllables or More
  • Ancient Greek Pitch Accent
  • Etymology Corner III by Dr. E. Del Chrol
  • Adverbs
  • Adverbs
  • Greek Adverbs
  • Why Study the Greeks?
  • Etymology Corner IV by Dr. E. Del Chrol
  • Conjunctions and Accenting Verbs II
  • Conjunctions
  • Greek Conjunctions
  • Accenting Verbs II
  • Vowel Length
  • Recessive and Persistent Accent
  • Review Possibilities of Accent I
  • Additional Possibilities of Accent
  • Review Accenting Verbs of Three Syllables or More
  • Accenting Verbs of Two Syllables
  • Greek Lyric Poetry
  • Etymology Corner V by Dr. E. Del Chrol
  • Endings Create Meaning
  • Greek Cases
  • In English, Word Order Creates Meaning
  • In Greek, Endings Create Meaning
  • Practice Making Up Your Own Sentences
  • Epic Poetry
  • Etymology Corner VI by Dr. E. Del Chrol.
  • Stefan Hagel Teaches Us How to Sing
  • Singing Ancient Greek by Stefan Hagel
  • Practice Learning How To Sing
  • Nouns, Pronouns, and their Case Functions
  • Nouns
  • Pronouns
  • Greek Noun Sets 1-10
  • The Five Cases
  • The Nominative Case
  • The Genitive Case
  • The Dative Case
  • The Accusative Case
  • The Vocative Case
  • Case and Function Chart
  • Apposition of Nouns and Pronouns
  • Parsing
  • Etymology Corner VII by Dr. E. Del Chrol
  • Prepositions and Prefixes
  • Prepositions
  • Greek Prepositions
  • Word Order
  • Anastrophe of the Disyllabic Preposition
  • Prepositions and Motion
  • Prefixes
  • Object of Prefix
  • Elision
  • Etymology Corner VIII by Dr. E. Del Chrol
  • The Verb and μι-Verbs ετ̔̈»Ε30;oί, δτ̔̈»Ε77;e}ol, ττ̔̈»Ε77;kjol
  • The Verb
  • The μι-Verb ετ̔̈»Ε30;oί
  • The μι-Verbs δτ̔̈»Ε77;e}ol and ττ̔̈»Ε77;kjol
  • Present Tense Stems
  • Present Tense Endings
  • Etymology Corner IX by Dr. E. Del Chrol
  • The Verbs ἔχω, ποιτ̔̈»Ε73;}, ἔρχομαι, φημτ̔̈»Ε77;
  • The Verb
  • Present Tense Stems
  • Present Tense Endings
  • The ω-Verb ἔχω
  • The Contract ω-Verb ποιτ̔̈»Ε73;}
  • The Deponent Verb ἔρχομαι
  • Present Tense Stems
  • Present Tense Endings
  • Historical Present
  • The μι-Verb φημτ̔̈»Ε77;
  • Present Tense Stems
  • Present Tense Endings
  • Present Indicative Active of φημτ̔̈»Ε77;
  • Etymology Corner X by Dr. E. Del Chrol
  • The Greek Olympics
  • The Definite Article and Persistent Accent
  • The Definite Article and Adjectives
  • The Definite Article
  • Persistent Accent
  • Vowel Length
  • Review Possibilities of Accent
  • Additional Possibilities of Accent
  • Chart for Possibilities of Accent
  • Herodotos
  • Etymology Corner XI by Dr. E. Del Chrol
  • Substantive Adjectives and the Article
  • Substantive Adjectives
  • Classics and Our Modern World: the Aquila Theatre and Theater of War Productions
  • Etymology Corner XII by Dr. E. Del Chrol
  • Third Declension Nouns
  • Nouns
  • Greek Nouns
  • Noun Sets 1-10.
  • Noun Gender
  • Third Declension Nouns
  • Identifying Noun Sets
  • Declining Third Declension Nouns
  • Four Subtypes of Third Declension Nouns
  • Helen
  • Etymology Corner XIII by Dr. E. Del Chrol
  • Self-Assessment Modules 1-13
  • MEMORY
  • APPLICATION AND CONCEPTS
  • Tom Holland on the Art of Translating Herodotos
  • First Declension Nouns in -η and -ᾱ and ττ̔̈»Ε77;w, ττ̔̈»Ε77;
  • τις, τι
  • ὅστις, ἥτις, ὅτι
  • Nouns
  • First Declension Nouns in -η and -ᾱ
  • Dialect Note
  • Declining First Declension Nouns in -η and -ᾱ
  • Pronouns and Adjectives
  • The Interrogative Pronoun and Adjective, ττ̔̈»Ε77;w, ττ̔̈»Ε77;
  • The Indefinite Pronoun and Adjective τις, τι
  • The Indefinite ὅστις, ἥτι, ὅτι
  • Classics and Our Modern World: The Warrior Chorus
  • Etymology Corner XIV by Dr. E. Del Chrol
  • Attributive and Predicate Position
  • Word Order
  • Attributive Position
  • Other Possibilities
  • Predicate Position
  • Ancient Greek Thought and Living Well
  • Etymology Corner XV by Dr. E. Del Chrol
  • Second Declension Nouns
  • Nouns
  • Second Declension Nouns
  • Declining Second Declension Nouns in -ος or -ον
  • ἥλιος, ἡλτ̔̈»Ε77;ry, ἀδελφτ̔̈»Ε79;w, ἀδελφοτ̔̈»ΕΔ6;, ἔργον, ἔργου
  • Classics and Our Modern World: Tom Palaima
  • Etymology Corner XVI by Dr. E. Del Chrol
  • The Future Indicative and Infinitive Active of ἔχω, ἐλατ̔̈”<U+0043>Γ·νω, ἔρχομαι and the Dynamic Infinitive
  • The Verb
  • The Future Indicative Active
  • Future Tense Stems
  • Future Tense Endings
  • The Conjugation of ἔχω
  • Future Indicative Active of ἔχω
  • Future Infinitive Active of ἔχω
  • The Conjugation ἐλατ̔̈»Ε7B;p}, ἐλτ̔̈»Ε71;}
  • Future Indicative Active of ἐλατ̔̈»Ε7B;p}, ἐλτ̔̈»Ε71;}
  • Future Infinitive Active of ἐλατ̔̈»Ε7B;p}, ἐλτ̔̈»Ε71;}
  • The Conjugation of ἔρχομαι
  • Future Indicative of ἔρχομαι
  • Future Infinitive of ἔρχομαι
  • The Infinitive
  • The Dynamic Infinitive
  • Papyrology
  • Etymology Corner XVII by Dr. E. Del Chrol
  • The Personal Pronouns
  • ετ̔̈»Ε37;w, οτ̔̈»Ε50;efίw, and μηδετ̔̈»Ε77;w.
  • the Dative and Accusative of Respect
  • Time Expressions
  • Pronouns
  • The English Personal Pronoun
  • The Greek Personal Pronoun
  • Adjectives and Pronouns
  • The Dative and Accusative of Respect
  • Time Expressions
  • Black Humor and Euripides' Alkestis
  • Etymology Corner XVIII by Dr. E. Del Chrol
  • οτ̔̈»Ε36;ea and the Present and Future Indicative and Infinitive Middle and Passive of ἐλατ̔̈»Ε7B;p}, καλτ̔̈»Ε73;}, φτ̔̈»Ε73;u}, δτ̔̈»Ε77;e}ol, ττ̔̈»Ε77;kjol
  • The Verb
  • The Conjugation of οτ̔̈»Ε36;ea
  • Active, Middle, and Passive Voice
  • Active and Passive Voice
  • Middle Voice
  • Primary Middle and Passive Endings
  • The Present and Future Indicative and Infinitive Middle and Passive of ω-verbs
  • How to Get the Correct Stem
  • Primary Middle and Passive Endings
  • Endings in Summary
  • The Conjugation of ἐλαυνω
  • The Conjugation of καλτ̔̈»Ε73;}
  • The Conjugation of φτ̔̈»Ε73;u}
  • The Conjugation of δτ̔̈»Ε77;e}ol
  • The Conjugation of ττ̔̈»Ε77;kjol
  • Etymology Corner XIX by Dr. E. Del Chrol
  • Joe Goodkin, Singer and Songwriter
  • First and Second Declension Adjectives and Common Adjectives and Pronouns: ατ̔̈»Ε50;xόw, οτ̔̈»Ε57;xrw, ὅδε, ἐκετ̔̈»ΕΓ6;prw, and -ων, -ουσα, -ον
  • Adjectives
  • Adjectives in Greek
  • First and Second Declension Adjectives
  • Mixed-Declension Adjectives
  • Substantive Adjectives
  • Common Adjectives and Pronouns
  • Medea
  • Etymology Corner XX by Dr. E. Del Chrol
  • First Declension Short Alpha Nouns
  • Nouns
  • First Declension Short Alpha Nouns in -α, -ης and -α, -ᾱς
  • Declining First Declension Short Alpha Nouns -α, -ης and -α, -ᾱς
  • First Declension Nouns in -ης, -ου and -ᾱς, -ου
  • Declining First Declension Masculine Nouns in -ης, -ου and -ᾱς, -ου
  • Noun Identification
  • History
  • Etymology Corner XXI by Dr. E. Del Chrol
  • The Relative Pronoun
  • The Relative Pronoun
  • The Relative Pronoun and Word Order
  • The Relative Pronoun in English
  • The Forms of the Relative Pronoun ὅς, ἥ, ὅ.
  • The Relative Pronoun in Summary
  • Etymology Corner XXII by Dr. E. Del Chrol
  • Self-Assessment Modules 14-22
  • MEMORY
  • APPLICATION AND CONCEPTS
  • READING AND TRANSLATING
  • The Imperfect and Aorist Indicative of λτ̔̈»Ε73;d}, ἔχω, ἐργτ̔̈»Ε71;iroal, δτ̔̈»Ε77;e}ol, ττ̔̈»Ε77;kjol
  • The Verb
  • μι-Verbs Contrasted with ω-Verbs
  • The Past Indicative Augment
  • Tense-Aspect
  • The Gnomic Aorist
  • The Aorist Contrasted with the Imperfect Tense
  • The First Aorist and the Second Aorist
  • The Aorist of μι-Verbs
  • The Infinitive
  • The Aorist Infinitive Contrasted with the Present Infinitive
  • Stems for the Imperfect and Aorist Tenses of ω-Verbs
  • Endings for the Imperfect and Aorist Tenses of ω-Verbs
  • Secondary Middle and Passive Endings
  • Endings in Summary
  • Conjugation of λτ̔̈»Ε73;d}, ἔχω, and ἐργτ̔̈»Ε71;iroal
  • Imperfect Indicative Active of λτ̔̈»Ε73;d}
  • Imperfect Indicative Middle of λτ̔̈»Ε73;d}
  • Imperfect Indicative Passive of λτ̔̈»Ε73;d}
  • First Aorist Indicative Active of λτ̔̈»Ε73;d}
  • First Aorist Infinitive Active of λτ̔̈»Ε73;d}
  • First Aorist Indicative Middle of λτ̔̈»Ε73;d}
  • First Aorist Infinitive Middle of λτ̔̈»Ε73;d}
  • Aorist Indicative Passive of λτ̔̈»Ε73;d}
  • Aorist Infinitive Passive of λτ̔̈»Ε73;d}
  • Imperfect Indicative Active of ἔχω
  • Imperfect Indicative Middle of ἔχω
  • Imperfect Indicative Passive of ἔχω
  • Second Aorist Indicative Active of ἔχω
  • Second Aorist Infinitive Active of ἔχω
  • Second Aorist Indicative Middle of ἔχω
  • Second Aorist Infinitive Middle of ἔχω
  • Imperfect Indicative of ἐργτ̔̈»Ε71;iroal
  • Aorist Indicative of ἐργτ̔̈»Ε71;iroal
  • Aorist Infinitive of ἐργτ̔̈»Ε71;iroal
  • Stems for the Imperfect and Aorist Tenses of δτ̔̈»Ε77;e}ol
  • Endings for the Imperfect and Aorist Tenses of δτ̔̈»Ε77;e}ol
  • Conjugation of δτ̔̈»Ε77;e}ol
  • Imperfect Indicative Active of δτ̔̈»Ε77;e}ol
  • Imperfect Indicative Middle of δτ̔̈»Ε77;e}ol
  • Imperfect Indicative Passive of δτ̔̈»Ε77;e}ol
  • Aorist Indicative Active of δτ̔̈»Ε77;e}ol
  • Aorist Infinitive Active of δτ̔̈»Ε77;e}ol.
  • Aorist Indicative Middle of δτ̔̈»Ε77;e}ol.

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