A Greek Reader for Schools

by W.D. Lowe

Book Overview

Reprinted by arrangement with Oxford University Press, this reader is a perfect vehicle for continuing the development of student skills in translation and discussion of Greek literature. Selected... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198318316
• ISBN13: 9780198318316
• Release Date: July 1975
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.9" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

And Also For The Self-Taught

This short (142 pages) books consists of 129 readings, textual notes, an index of proper names and a vocabulary. The readings include eight from Aesop, six from Theophrastus (witty little character sketches about the "Grumbler" or the "Boor"), eight from Lucian (short allegorical dialogues), 31 from Herodotus (Atticized), 32 from Thucydides, 32 from Xenophon (from various works) and 12 from Plato (various dialogues). The readings are not ordered by difficulty, and are all pretty accessible after a year of Greek. Neither the introductions to the various writers nor the textual notes are what I'd call fulsome (hence I give the book four stars, rather than five), but they are enough to help any autodidact through difficult constructions, slang forms, etc.