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A Reading Course in Homeric Greek

A Reading Course in Homeric Greek: Book I

R.V. Schoder & V.C. Horrigan

Leslie C. Edwards, Editor

University of California, San Diego

2005 • 1-58510-175-3 • paper • 448 pages • 8 ½ x 11 • $39.95

This text is a revised edition of the well respected text by Frs. Schoder and Horrigan. A Reading Course in Homeric Greek, Book I provides an introduction to Greek language as found in the Greek of Homer. Covering 120 lessons, readings from Homer begin after the first 10 lessons in the book. Honor work, appendices, and vocabularies are included, along with review exercises for each chapter with answers.

| About the Authors | Table of Contents | Ancillaries | Preface |  Review |

 Description                                             

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Is there an answer key?
There is an answer key for the review exercises at the back of the book. The other exercises - translate into Greek, etc. - are not answered.

Focus Publishing has reprinted the original
Schoder and Horrigan Teacher's Manual/Answer Key.
We will keep this book in print until Leslie Edwards revises it.

978-1-58510-245-7 • paper • 356 pages • 8 ½ x 11 • $29.95

2. Will Focus publish Volume 2?
Yes. Book details can be found here.

978-1-58510-176-4 • paper • 8 ½ x 11

 Authors                                                  

This text was originally written by Raymond V. Schoder, S.J. and Vincent C. Horrigan, S.J.
It has been revised in this edition by Leslie Collins Edwards, who is a Lecturer of Greek and Latin literature at the University of California, San Diego.
 

 Table of Contents                                     

For the table of contents and a sample of the first eighty pages in a pdf file format, click here.

 Ancillaries                                               

Transition to Attic Greek    

2006 • 1-58510-196-6 • paper • 42 pages • 8 ½ x 11 • $12.95    

Transition to Attic Greek is a reference for students who need a bridge from Homeric Greek to Attic Greek – a handy reference for aspects of the language that will be unfamiliar to those who have taken an approach to Greek through Homer.

 From the Introduction                             

     The entire book is scientifically built up on the basis of a complete statistical tabulation of just what forms, rules, and words actually occur in the text which will be read in this course. As a result, emphasis is distributed according to the degree of frequency with which each particular item will be met during the two years’ work. Grammar and vocabulary are thus streamlined, that the efforts of the class may be directed efficiently to matters which are actively important for reading the Homeric text.

     Only those principal parts of verbs, and only those special forms of -mi verbs are assigned which actually occur at least three times in the readings from Homer in this course. Thus the memory burden is greatly reduced, with no unneeded items included, yet is fully adequate for reading the selections from Homer provided.

     These items cover, at the same time, the essentials of Homeric and Greek grammar, thus providing a solid foundation for further reading in Homer or in other Greek authors. Nevertheless, the student who cannot go on in Greek beyond the present course will find satisfaction in having repeatedly seen and used within the course itself every principle that he has learned. The book, then, forms a unit in itself, offering material of intrinsic worth and interest; it is not merely a preparation for something else.

Why this revised edition?

     Approaching the learning of Ancient of Greek through Homeric Greek makes particular sense for the student of today, who often has only a year or two to spend on the study of Greek. Homeric Greek is somewhat simpler syntactically than Attic Greek, so that reading with some proficiency and even pleasure is attainable within that abbreviated time-span. Moreover, of all the ancient texts still read today, certainly none is more widely read or enjoyed than Homer’s Odyssey; students are often drawn to the study of the Greek language by their experience with Homer in translation. Yet the extant Homeric Greek textbooks were not written for today’s student; they assumed familiarity with grammatical terminology and syntactical concepts that are no longer covered in the educational curriculum.

 Review                                                    

Leslie Edwards' [new edition of] A Reading Course in Homeric Greek captures the spirit of the original Schoder and Horrigan text while serving the needs of today's audiences. It's simply Homerically delightful!"

-- Susan Setnik, Tufts University