[B-Greek] Blass-Debrunner-Funk

George F Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Wed Aug 17 08:38:56 EDT 2005


On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:41:46 -0400 "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at ioa.com>
writes:
> 
If you're willing to read 
> lots  
> of Xenophon's Anabasis, as late Victorian students both British and  
> 
> American were doing about the same time they were excelling in 
> Bulwer- 
> Lytton's Boy Scouts, Crosby and Sheaffer can still be found in 
> second- 
> hand stores and may even still be in print--but I and most readers  
> 
> nowadays don't find the Anabasis the most exciting subject matter 
> one  
> could cut one's Greek teeth on. A still simpler work is that of  
> Melluish and Kinchin-Smith in the [British University?] "Teach  
> Yourself" series, _Teach Yourself Ancient Greek_ (but be careful,  
> there's also a _Teach Yourself Greek_ which deals with Modern 
> Greek-- 
> still, eventually you'll want that too!). And there are other good  
> books too. These are just a few that seem to me worth mentioning.
> 
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
> 1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
> cwconrad2 at mac.com
> WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
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I'll second the recommendation of Crosby & Schaeffer.  Years ago, when I
was taking classical Greek and finding it difficult after having used
Machen (I feel I was badly served by Machen), I had a love-hate
relationship with C & S.  It was challenging, but that was not the
problem.  The print was smudgey making it difficult to concentrate while
trying to learn the language.  I noted a paperback edition in Border's
Books 1-2 years ago and the print seems to be much better than I
remembered it to have been in my copy.  

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george
gfsomsel
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