[B-Greek] Re: Classical Greek Anthology

Ted Shoemaker tedsmath at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 23 15:47:25 EST 2004


Someone who is not part of this group 
sent me this, offlist, and gave me permission 
to post it here for your benefit.

--- Justin Johnson <soteria30 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I was reading on the Greek list and noticed that you were looking
> for a
> Greek Anthology.  I am not a member of the Greek list but only read
> the
> archives when I have a chance. I am a new father, so my time is
> very
> limited.
> 
> There is a book by D. A. Russell "Anthology of Greek Prose".  It
> covers
> various writers and dialects.  I think that the period is from
> 750BC to
> 350AD.   It also includes Christian Greek authors such as Gregory
> of Nysia,
> St. Basil, Clement of Alexanderia, Hermas.  The book starts with
> Early Ionic
> prose and proceeds through Herodotus, Attic Prose ( Covering
> philosophy,
> History, Orators,..etc ), Hellenistic prose and pagan and Christian
> works in
> the late Roman empire. The ISBN number is 0198721226 .  You can
> purchase it
> through www.oxboxbooks.com for $19.95 . Other online retailers are
> selling
> it for 29.95 .  I do not know why there is a price discrepancy.  I
> have been
> working through it and find it very enjoyable.    The anthology
> does not
> have much grammatical help but does list some help with reference
> to
> classical grammars.  I find it challenging and rewarding.
> 
> There is another set of books which I plan on purchasing.  I have
> them on
> interlibrary loan and just starting working on Unit 1, which is a
> book.  The
> books are by Malcolm Campbell and are excellent for learning some
> of the
> subtleties of Classical Greek.  The book title "A Greek Prose
> Reading Course
> for Post-Beginners" . This is a 4 book series and covers in  Unit 1
> Forensic
> Oratory: Lysias, Unit 2 Philosophy Plato: Crito, Unit 3 Political
> Oratory:Demosthenes: Third Philippic, and Unit 4 Historiography:
> Thucydides:
> Events at Pylos and Sphacteria.   The books are $9.00 a piece and
> are
> complete in their presentation.  It has the text, a morphology
> section,
> grammar section, helps to the text, vocabulary section,  a small
> commentary
> on the text, a list of all the verb forms encountered in the
> readings.
> The books are titled Post-Beginner but I would call them
> intermediate to
> advance.  They are published in England by Bristol Classical Press.
> You can
> order them through Amazon but they are $14.00 a piece and you have
> to wait.
> I plan on ordering them from this web site
>
http://www.internationalpubmarket.com/clients/duc/Books/AuthorDetail.aspx?id
> =90  .  I have not used this retailer but they do discount
> classical texts,
> so I thought that I would give them a try.  The link above should
> take you
> to the section with information on the books above.
. . . .
> If you could
> only purchase one of these books, I would suggest the books by
> Malcolm
> Campbell.  I believe that they can help you to read more difficult
> Greek and
> I have noticed an improvement already.
> 
> The book ( An Anthology of Greek Prose) by D. A. Russell is very
> good
> because you have over 100 different texts to read and it covers a
> 1000 year
> period of the Greek language.  You get a full overview of the Greek
> language
> with many  authors that you may not be familiar with.  This makes
> reading
> the text interesting.  I find it to be like solving a puzzle.  You
> will need
> Smyth's Greek Grammar when reading these books.  I also use the big
> LSJ for
> definitions and sometimes the Langenscheidt Pocket Greek Dictionary
> for
> common words.  For the Anthology of Greek prose, the big LSJ is a
> requirement.  There are some texts in the book in which a Greek
> word may
> occur in only that author.  I do not have the Intermediate LSJ, so
> I do not
> know if it would be useful.
> 
> If you do decide to use any of the books, let me know how they work
> for you.
> I am interested in seeing if they are helpful to others.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Justin Johnson
> 
> P.S.  I have used www.oxbowbooks.com and have been very satisfied
> with their
> service.  I have had to wait for some of my books but they are very
> friendly
> and have a great selection of texts.  Often times, You can pick up
> Oxford
> reprints very cheap and some of the Aris and Phillips classical
> texts are
> discounted.  The other retailer
> http://www.internationalpubmarket.com, I
> have not used as stated above.  I hope this helps.


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