[B-Greek] Primers for Attic Greek

Jody Barnard jbnard at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Apr 29 06:15:04 EDT 2004


Hi Carl,

I'm particularly interested in your comment that "it's
worth the student whose primary interest in the Greek
language will be the New Testament or patristic
authors should get a solid foundation in classical
Attic." 

Why do you say this?

Jody Barnard
England

 --- "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
wrote: > At 9:02 AM -0500 4/16/04, Dodson, Derek S
wrote:
> >Dr. Conrad, this was incredibly helpful; thank you.
>  Is there a particular
> >resource that you recommend for studying Attic
> Greek?
> >Derek Dodson
> 
> There are many primers of Attic Greek available,
> most of them intended for
> regular academic teaching in universities; In my
> judgment, two of the best
> are (I cite them with the page and info from
> Amazon.com, simply because
> that's handy):
> 
> 1. Hansen and Quinn is the textbook used in the
> intensive 8-week
> maximal-absorption courses in Greek taught every
> summer at University of
> California and City University of New York. Of all
> the traditional
> textbooks, I think this has the most detailed
> explanations of basic
> constructions in any textbook of ancient Greek that
> I've ever seen; I don't
> think an absolute beginner could work through it
> without an instructor or
> someone to answer questions arising while working
> through it, but if you
> are rebuilding foundations this might be one of the
> better books you could
> use. It's for Classical Attic rather than
> Hellenistic Greek, but my honest
> opinion, for what it's worth, is that even the
> student whose primary
> interest in the Greek language will be the New
> Testament or patristic
> authors should get a solid foundation in classical
> Attic. Here's the
> amazon.com URL:
> 
>
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0823216640/qid=1068464731/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-0274703-4404053?v=glance&s=books
> 
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> by Hardy Hansen ,Gerald M. Quinn
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> 
> 2. Another option--one that I think is probably no
> less viable than Hansen
> & Quinn, is the British JACT series "Reading Greek"
> that is published by
> Cambridge University Press. I taught Beginning Greek
> classes using this
> textbook for the last decade or so of my academic
> career. No textbook is
> optimal for every kind of student, and ultimately I
> think that learning
> Greek in a regular academic course has more to do
> with the interaction of
> teacher and student than with which textbook is
> used; the first textbook I
> ever used for Beginning Greek back in 1952 was a
> wretched primer in NT
> Greek that was god-awful; I learned not because of
> it but in spite of it
> because I had a superb teacher to whom I will always
> be grateful, Joe Billy
> McMinn, a product of Louisville Baptist Seminary
> himself who was/is (now
> long retired) a splendid heir of the traditions of
> AT Robertson. _Reading
> Greek_ has two volumes: one a volume with a year's
> worth of graded Greek
> texts in sequential lessons beginning with heavily
> adapted Aristophanes and
> ending with a segment of Homer's Odyssey; the second
> a volume of
> grammatical explanations, vocabulary and some
> exercises accompanying the
> text. The philosophy of learning embodied in this
> course is that one reads
> the Greek texts in a lesson first with the aid of a
> vocabulary, then learns
> the grammatical principles underlying that text and
> does some exercises
> employing those grammatical principles. This
> textbook really needs a live
> human teacher to make it work; some students may be
> able to work through it
> without a teacher but not many; it may be more
> doable without a live human
> teacher if one has also the _Independent Study Guide
> to Reading Greek_--the
> third volume listed below. If you or anyone else
> should choose to work
> through _Reading Greek_, I'll readily make available
> (send in a zipped or
> Stuffit-archived big PDF file or Word.doc file) my
> own booklet, "A
> Supplement to Reading Greek," which expands upon the
> grammatical
> explanations in the grammar/exercise book of this
> series.
> 
>
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521219760/qid=1068464907/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-0274703-4404053?v=glance&s=books
> 
> Reading Greek: Text
> by Joint Association of Classical Teachers. ,Joint
> Association of Classical
> Teachers
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> 
>
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> 
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>
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> 
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> 
> -- 
> 
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University
> (Emeritus)
> 1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828)
> 675-4243
> cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
> WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
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