Wilding's Greek for Beginners

By L.A. Wilding

Revised and expanded text based on Wilding's classic Greek exercises and readings, including all points of grammar and syntax fully explained for first-year Greek students. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585100102
• ISBN13: 9781585100101
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.1" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Wilding's Greek for Beginners

Previous review of this text is unfair. I worked through nearly every Greek sentence in this book and found a couple of mistakes. What does "FORMS ARE MISQUOTED" mean? By implication, this text, which is a useful and competent introduction to the language, is dragged through the mud. It is pretty easy to recommend the monster volumes of Hansen and Quinn under the assumption that more is better. I found that students advance to serious reading of Greek quickly and enthusiasitically with this text. What is the problem?

Fine Introduction

Contrary to the listing here, this book is still in print (re-printed fall 1999), but you have to go to British sources for it (Blackwell's I think). I like the way this book gets into the language fast and doesn't hit the student with complex forms off the top. I also don't mind the way Wilding refers back to another book for grammatical forms, as this trains the student to work with grammar books, a very useful skill. I do wish it covered the 'mi' verbs, but I can do this near the course end anyway.

A great little book...

for the teaching and learning of ancient Greek. Unfortunately it only covers the bare bones of the language, referring, as it does, to the less good Abbott and Mansfield "Primer of Greek Grammar". This book should not be allowed to go out of print, since it achieves its goal far better than almost any other work, with the exception of Chase and Phillips' "New Introduction to Greek".