Educational: Classical and ancient languages: Language learning

Book SynopsisUpdated to accompany the second edition of Reading Greek, a best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek, this Study Guide includes notes on and translations of the Greek texts that appear in the Text and Vocabulary volume and answers to the exercises in the Grammar and Exercises volume.Trade Review'The quality of this course is now very hard to match indeed.' Journal of Classics TeachingTable of ContentsPreface; 1. The insurance fraud; 2. The glorious past; 3. Athens and Sparta; 4. Lawlessness in Athenian life; 5. 'Socrates corrupts the young'; 6. Socrates and Strepsiades; 7. Socrates and intellectual inquiry; 8. Aristophanes' Birds; 9. Aristophanes' Wasps; 10. Aristophanes' Lysistrata; 11. Aristophanes' Akharnians; 12. Neaira as slave; 13. Neaira as married woman; 14. Guarding a woman's purity; 15. Alkestis in Euripides' play; 16. Official justice: ships, state and individuals; 17. Private justice: trouble down at the farm; 18. How Zeus gave justice to men; 19. The story of Adrastos; 20. Odysseus and Nausikaa.

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