This concise volume provides brief original reading matter to illustrate key features of Greek grammar and syntax. Each chapter begins with an account of the grammatical issue in question; this is then followed by a selection of passages from Greek literature, some shorter, some longer, covering a wide range of authors, and of considerable intrinsic interest.

Contents ; Introduction ; About the Authors ; 1. The Indicative Tenses of the Verb ; 1.1 Vitruvius 9, Preface 10 ; 1.2 Herodotus, Histories 7.228.2 ; 1.3 Appian, Civil War 2.91 ; 1.4 Pindar, Pythian 8.20 ; 1.5 Euripides, Medea 364 ; 1.6 Demosthenes, De Corona 191 ; 1.7 Thucydides, Histories 2.70.1 ; 1.8 Sophocles, Philoctetes 1066-71 ; 1.9 Euripides, Electra 967-70 ; 1.10 Plato, Crito 43a-b ; 2. Basic Use of Cases ; 2.1 Nominative ; (i) Thucydides, Histories 1.89.1 ; (ii) Aeschylus, Choephoroe 1-2 ; 2.2 Genitive ; (i) Plato, Charmides 153a ; (ii) Plato, Phaedo 118a ; 2.3 Dative ; (i) Homer, Odyssey 6.246 ; (ii) Thucydides, Histories 1.86.3 ; 2.4 Accusative ; 2.5 Vocative ; 2.6 Euripides, Supplices 399-405 ; 2.7 St. Luke's Gospel 2.8-12 ; 2.8 Homer, Iliad 1.357-64 ; 2.9 Lysias 1.22-24 ; 2.10 Euripides, Alcestis 185-96 ; 3. Adjectives ; 3.1 Plato, Ion 533e-534b ; 3.2 Plato, Symposium 221c ; 3.3 graffito from Mount Hymettus ; 3.4 Herodotus, Histories 1.1 ; 3.5 Euripides, Medea 49-55 ; 3.6 Homer, Iliad 6.414-16, 421-30 ; 4. Time, Place and Space ; 4.1 Plato, Apology 17d ; 4.2 Sophocles, Philoctetes 1337-42 ; 4.3 Xenophon, Hellenica 1.1.14-16 ; 4.4 Homer, Odyssey 2.171-76 ; 4.5 Plato, Laws 642d-e ; 4.6 Thucydides, Histories 1.94.1-2 ; 4.7 Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 767-76 ; 4.8 Homer, Iliad 1.17-21 ; 4.9 Xenophon, Hellenica 6.4.19-20 ; 4.10 Xenophon, Anabasis 1.4.11 ; 5. Personal Pronouns and ([ ]) ; 5.1 Plato, Gorgias 474b ; 5.2 Xenophon, Anabasis 1.6.7 ; 5.3 Plato, Apology 38d-39a ; 5.4 Euripides, Medea 271-76 ; 5.5 Thucydides, Histories 2.61.2 ; 5.6 Thucydides, Histories 4.78.4 ; 5.7 Antiphon, On the Murder of Herodes 50 ; 5.8 Lysias 1.12-13 ; 5.9 Thucydides, Histories 4.14.1 ; 6. Indefinite and Demonstrative Pronouns ; 6.1 Xenophon, Anabasis 3.1.4 ; 6.2 Euripides, Alcestis 136-40 ; 6.3 Xenophon, Hellenica 5.1.13 ; 6.4 Homer, Iliad 10.382-89 ; 6.5 St. Mark's Gospel 14. 22-26 ; 6.6 Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 1047-57 ; 6.7 Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7. 3.2 ; 6.8 Euripides, Orestes 1140-48 ; 6.9 Demosthenes, De Corona 304-5 ; 6.10 Herodotus, Histories 2.100 ; 7. Participles 1 ; 7.1 Thucydides, Histories 3.112.2 ; 7.2 Xenophon, Memorabilia 4.4.4 ; 7.3 Demosthenes, De Corona 124 ; 7.4 Homer, Iliad 22.131-38 ; 7.5 Thucydides, Histories 6.59.4 ; 7.6 Xenophon, Anabasis 2.3.21 ; 7.7 Thucydides, Histories 8.68.1 ; 7.8 Thucydides, Histories 4.39.3 ; 7.9 Thucydides 2.59.2 ; 7.10 Euripides, Fragment 461 ; 8. Relative Clauses ; 8.1 Menander, Sententiae 560, 583 ; 8.2 Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.3.44 ; 8.3 Sophocles, Oedipus Coloneus 49-53 ; 8.4 Thucydides, Histories 1.95.5-6 ; 8.5 Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1289-95 ; 8.6 Lysias 12.16-17 ; 8.7 Homer, Iliad 1.35-42 ; 8.8 Andocides, De Mysteriis 61-62 ; 8.9 Euripides, Heraclidae 945-52 ; 8.10 Thucydides, Histories 1.128.5-7 ; 9 Particles ; 9.1 Plato, Apology 26c ; 9.2 Homer, Iliad 1 505-10 ; 9.3 Euripides, Hippolytus 1243-48 ; 9.4 Euripides, Electra 228-31 ; 9.5 Sophocles, Ajax 1355-59 ; 9.6 Aristophanes, Lysistrata 908-14 ; 9.7 Herodotus, Histories 2.49.1 ; 9.8 Plato, Lysis 219c ; 9.9 Demosthenes, On the Chersonese 42 ; 9.10 Homer, Iliad 4.401-5 ; 10 Indirect Statement ; 10.1 (i) Demosthenes, De Corona 169 ; (ii) Plato, Apology 21c ; (iii) Demosthenes Olynthiacs 1.15 ; 10.2 Xenophon, Anabasis 4.8.4 ; 10.3 Euripides, Medea 1293-1300 ; 10.4 Xenophon, Hellenica 4. 2.1 ; 10.5 Lysias 23.5-7 ; 10.6 Homer, Iliad 13.361-73 ; 10.7 Thucydides, Histories 2.3.1-3 ; 10.8 Euripides, Medea 446-58 ; 10.9 Plato, Republic 2.359d-60a ; 10.10 Plato, Republic 2.360a-c ; 11 Direct and Indirect Questions ; 11.1 Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1-4 ; 11.2 Sophocles, Antigone 1211-12 ; 11.3 Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 881-89 ; 11.4 Plato, Protagoras 310d ; 11.5 Thucydides, Histories 1.5.1-2 ; 11.6 Plato, Apology 21a-b ; 11.7 Herodotus, Histories 1.31 ; 11.8 Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.2.45 ; 12 Commands, Prohibitions and Wishes ; 12.1 Two Extracts from Homer's Odyssey ; (i) Odyssey 1.1-2 ; (ii) Odyssey 1.169-72 ; 12.2 Thucydides, Histories 1.86.5 ; 12.3 Two Extracts from Tragedy ; (i) Aeschylus, Persae 402-5 ; (ii) Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis 495-99 ; 12.4 St. Luke's Gospel 18.18-25 ; 12.5 Euripides, Phoenissae 1442-53 ; 12.6 Aristophanes, Acharnians 280-99 ; 12.7 Thucydides, Histories 2.12.2-3 ; 12.8 Xenophon, Hellenica 4.1.37-39 ; 12.9 Euripides, Electra 1060-73 ; 12.10 Homer, Iliad 3.424-36 ; 13 Purpose Clauses ; 13.1 Homer, Iliad 2.381 ; 13.2 Xenophon, Anabasis 1.4.18 ; 13.3 Lysias 1.4 ; 13.4 Xenophon, Memorabilia 4.4.16 ; 13.5 Homer, Iliad 1.522-27 ; 13.6 Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.2.3 ; 13.7 Xenophon, Anabasis 1.1.3 ; 13.8 Thucydides, Histories 1.29.1 ; 13.9 Demosthenes, Olynthiacs 1.2 ; 13.10 Demosthenes, Olynthiacs 2.11 ; 13.11 Sophocles, Electra 378-84 ; 14 Result Clauses ; 14.1 Euripides, Hecuba 730 ; 14.2 Lysias 12. 4 ; 14.3 Plato, Symposium 215e-16a ; 14.4 Sophocles, Antigone 449-55 ; 14.5 St. John's Gospel 3.16 ; 14.6 Xenophon, Anabasis 7.4.2-4 ; 14.7 Thucydides, Histories 3.49.1-3 ; 14.8 Euripides, Phoenissae 361-64 ; 14.9 Xenophon, Anabasis 2.2.17-18 ; 14.10 Lysias 3.6-8 ; 15 Conditionals 1 ; 15.1 Homer, Iliad 1.564 ; 15.2 Plato, Phaedrus 228a ; 15.3 Demosthenes, On the Liberty of the Rhodians 23 ; 15.4 Xenophon, Anabasis 2.5.41 ; 15.5 Thucydides, Histories 3.54.3-4 ; 15.6 Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.2.13 ; 15.7 Plato, Republic 5.473c-e ; 15.8 Aristophanes, Frogs 584-88 ; 15.9 Euripides, Phoenissae 1615-21 ; 15.10 Lysias 7.41 ; 16 Conditionals 2 ; 16.1 Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.2.16 ; 16.2 Lysias 2.78-80 ; 16.3 Euripides, Helen 68-77 ; 16.4 Plato, Apology 32d ; 16.5 Homer, Iliad 5. 674-82 ; 16.6 Thucydides, Histories 8.96.3-4 ; 16.7 Aeschylus, Agamemnon 34-39 ; 16.8 Homer, Iliad 2, 483-92 ; 16.9 Herodotus, Histories 2.173.2-4 ; 17 Participles 2 ; 17.1 Homer, Iliad 12.392-93 ; 17.2 Xenophon, Anabasis 3.3.1 ; 17.3 Herodotus 1.30.1 ; 17.4 Xenophon, Anabasis 1.2.22 ; 17.5 Euripides, Hecuba 303-5 ; 17.6 Plato, Protagoras 358d ; 17.7 Plato, Alcibiades 1.115a-b ; 17.8 Homer, Iliad 24.477-84 ; 17.9 Herodotus 4.136.1-2 ; 17.10 Plato, Euthydemus 272d-e ; 18 Verbs of Fearing, Precaution and Preventing ; 18.1 (i) Euripides, Medea 37 ; (ii) Xenophon, Anabasis 1.10.9 ; (iii) Aristophanes, Clouds 492-93 ; (iv) Thucydides, Histories 3.53.2 ; (v) Thucydides, Histories 1.136.1 ; 18.2 Euripides, Medea 282-89 ; 18.3 Xenophon, Anabasis 1.7.6 ; 18.4 Homer, Odyssey 5.299-307 ; 18.5 St. Matthew's Gospel 1.19-22 ; 18.6 (i) Isocrates 2.37 ; (ii) Sophocles, Trachiniae 1129 ; (iii) Demosthenes, De Falsa Legatione 92 ; 18.7 Xenophon, Anabasis 1.3.11 ; 18.8 (i) Herodotus, Histories 2.20.2 ; (ii) Sophocles, Antigone 441-43 ; (iii) Plato, Hippias Minor 369d ; 18.9 Thucydides, Histories 3.1 ; 18.10 Euripides, Phoenissae 1172-86 ; 19 Indefinite sentences ; 19.1 Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.1.2 ; 19.2 Homer, Iliad 9.312-13 ; 19.3 Lysias 12.41 ; 19.4 Sophocles, Antigone 574-81 ; 19.5 Xenophon, Cyropaedia 5.3.55 ; 19.6 Thucydides, Histories 2.34.3-5 ; 19.7 Demosthenes, De Corona 235 ; 19.8 Thucydides, Histories 1.99.3 ; 19.9 Homer, Iliad 1.163-71 ; 19.10 Xenophon, Agesilaos 7.3 ; 20 Temporal Clauses ; 20.1 (i) Demosthenes, Olynthiacs 1.20 ; (ii) Xenophon, Anabasis 1.6.5 ; (iii) Sophocles, Antigone 91 ; 20.2 Thucydides, Histories 2.21.1-2 ; 20.3 Euripides, Hecuba 10-27 ; 20.4 Arrian, Anabasis 5.18.6 ; 20.5 Xenophon, Anabasis 7.2.31 ; 20.6 (i) I Corinthians 11.26 ; (ii) Homer, Odyssey 5.55-58 ; (iii) Isocrates 1.24 ; (iv) Thucydides, Histories 2.93.1 ; 20.7 Aeschylus, Persae 421-28 ; 20.8 Xenophon, Anabasis 5.7.3-5 ; 20.9 Euripides, Medea 1021-39 ; 21 Impersonal Verbs and Verbal Adjectives ; 21.1 Xenophon, Anabasis 3.2.15 ; 21.2 Plato, Crito 44c ; 21.3 Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.2.28 ; 21.4 Andocides 4.17 ; 21.5 Euripides, Medea 238-43 ; 21.6 Demosthenes, Philippic 3.70 ; 22 Additional Prose Passages ; 22.1 Herodotus, Histories 1.8 ; 22.2 Herodotus, Histories 2.68 ; 22.3 Thucydides, Histories 6.57 ; 22.4 Thucydides, Histories 8.1 ; 22.5 Xenophon, Hellenica, 4.2.10-12 ; 22.6 Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.1.21-22 ; 22.7 Plato, Apology, 22a-c ; 22.8 Plato, Phaedo 117e-18a ; 22.9 Lucian, Vera Historia 2, 35-36 ; 22.10 The Acts of the Apostles 9.1-12 ; 23 Additional Verse Passages ; 23.1 Homer, Iliad 6, 466-84 ; 23.2 Homer, Odyssey 22.1-21 ; 23.3 Sophocles, Ajax 541-59 ; 23.4 Euripides, Hippolytus 1-22 ; 23.5 Sophocles, Antigone, 781-800 ; 23.6 Euripides, Medea 1251-70 ; 23.7 Aristophanes, Frogs, 1198-1221 ; 23.8 Aristophanes, Clouds 1-18 ; 23.9 Theocritus 11.17-37 ; 23.10 Callimachus, Epigrammata 2 ; Appendices ; The Greek Writers ; Homer, Herodotus and the New Testament ; Two Important Greek Meters ; Literary Terms ; Map: Greece and the Aegean

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Selling point: concise grammatical explanations Selling point: a wide range of authors Selling point: over 200 separate passages Selling point: extracts from the New Testament Selling point: clear and helpful notes Selling point: helpful appendices Selling point: a full vocabulary Selling point: ideal supplement to Athenaze, OUP's bestselling text for introductory Greek