Instructor’s Resource Manual for Athenaze - An Introduction to Ancient Greek - Book One and Two

General PrinciplesThis course was written for use in schools, colleges, and universities with students who have not necessarily been exposed to any other highly inflected language. The course aims at teaching students toread and understand Greek within the context of fifth-century Greek civilization and culture. All elements in the course are meant to contribute to this end.The readings form a continuous story with interwoven subplots. In Chapters 1–20 the narrative consists of made-up Greek, a good part of it based on Homer and Herodotus; in Chapter 21 and the following chapters dependence on ancient sources — Thucydides, Plato, Herodotus, Bacchylides, and Aristophanes — increases steadily. The main narrative of each chapter is divided into two parts. Before each narrative is a list of words to be learned. The inductive method (see below) involves quickly reading the lists through before starting on the narrative, and then learning them thoroughly after the narrative has been completed, when the vocabulary has been encountered in context and will thus prove easier to memorize. Some teachers, however, will feel that the lists should be learned in advance of the readings. Following each narrative is an explanation of the major new grammar and syntax that have occurred in the reading. Exercises then give practice with the new linguistic features. In the middle of each chapter is a short essay providing the historical and cultural context of the narrative. Reading passages at the end of each chapter are offered for comprehension; they either continue the narrative or form subplots, drawn from Homer’s Odyssey, Herodotus, and Thucydides. Chapters 29 and 30 at the end of Book II are devoted primarily to passages from Thucydides and Aristophanes, the Greek of which has not been changed from the original, except for some omissions. BOOK I Introduction vii Chapter 1 1 Chapter 2 11 Chapter 3 20 Chapter 4 27 Chapter 5 35 Chapter 6 43 Chapter 7 53 Chapter 8 63 Chapter 9 73 Review of Verb Forms 84 Preview of New Verb Forms 85 Chapter 10 87 Chapter 11 96 Chapter 12 107 Chapter 13 117 Chapter 14 126 Chapter 15 135 Chapter 16 143 End Matter 151 Translations of Classical and New Testament Greek Readings 154 Word Study Index 158 Word Building Index 159 Index of Teacher’s Handbook: Topics, Language, and Grammar 161 Index of Teacher’s Handbook: Greek Words 163 BOOK II Preface iii Chapter 17 1 Chapter 18 11 Chapter 19 20 Chapter 20 30 Chapter 21 38 Chapter 22 48 Chapter 23 56 Chapter 24 66 Chapter 25 75 Chapter 26 84 Chapter 27 93 Chapter 28 103 Chapter 29 114 Chapter 30 126 End Matter 134 Translations of Classical and New Testament Greek Readings 136 Word Study Index 141 Word Building Index 142 Index of Teacher’s Handbook: Topics, Language, and Grammar 144 Index of Teacher’s Handbook: Greek Words 146 Teacher's manual for the third edition of Athenaze, books I and II. Commentary, answer key etc.