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In ancient times Menander (341-290 BC) was the most admired and most quoted of the Greek playwrights. His plays are romantic comedies dealing with the lives of ordinary Athenian families. This new verse translation, which includes explanatory notes and a full introduction, follows the text of Menander closely but attempts to fill some of the gaps using surviving words in damaged papyri so the reader has, as far as possible, a consecutive text.
Since its publication in 1990, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient
Greek has helped tens of thousands of students learn classical
Greek. Building on the bestselling tradition of previous editions,
the long-awaited third edition combines the best features of
traditional and modern teaching methods. It provides a unique
course of instruction that allows students to read connected Greek
narrative right from the beginning and guides them to the point
where they can begin reading complete classical texts. James
Morwood, editor of the Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek and the
Pocket Oxford Classical Greek Dictionary, brings his expertise and
years of teaching experience to this revision. Carefully designed
to hold students' interest, the course begins in Book I with a
fictional narrative about an Attic farmer's family placed in a
precise historical context (432-431 B.C.). This narrative,
interwoven with tales from mythology and the Persian Wars,
gradually gives way in Book II to adapted passages from Thucydides,
Plato, and Herodotus and ultimately to excerpts of the original
Greek of Bacchylides, Thucydides, and Aristophanes' Acharnians.
Essays on relevant aspects of ancient Greek culture and history are
also woven throughout.
Combining the best features of traditional and modern methods,
Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, Revised Third Edition,
provides a unique course of instruction that allows students to
read connected Greek narrative right from the beginning and guides
them to the point where they can begin reading complete classical
texts. This student workbook includes self-correcting exercises,
cumulative vocabulary lists, periodic grammatical reviews, and
additional readings for the material covered by Athenaze, Book II,
Revised Third Edition.
Combining the best features of traditional and modern methods,
Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, Revised Third Edition,
provides a unique course of instruction that allows students to
read connected Greek narrative right from the beginning and guides
them to the point where they can begin reading complete classical
texts. This student workbook includes self-correcting exercises,
cumulative vocabulary lists, periodic grammatical reviews, and
additional readings for the material covered by Athenaze, Book I,
Revised Third Edition.
Since its publication in 1990, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient
Greek has helped tens of thousands of students learn classical
Greek. Building on the bestselling tradition of previous editions,
the long-awaited third edition combines the best features of
traditional and modern teaching methods. It provides a unique
course of instruction that allows students to read connected Greek
narrative right from the beginning and guides them to the point
where they can begin reading complete classical texts. James
Morwood, editor of the Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek and the
Pocket Oxford Classical Greek Dictionary, brings his expertise and
years of teaching experience to this revision. Carefully designed
to hold students' interest, the course begins in Book I with a
fictional narrative about an Attic farmer's family placed in a
precise historical context (432-431 B.C.). This narrative,
interwoven with tales from mythology and the Persian Wars,
gradually gives way in Book II to adapted passages from Thucydides,
Plato, and Herodotus and ultimately to excerpts of the original
Greek of Bacchylides, Thucydides, and Aristophanes' Acharnians.
Essays on relevant aspects of ancient Greek culture and history are
also woven throughout.
Menander was the founding father of European comedy. From Ralph
Roister Doister to What the Butler Saw, from Henry Fielding to P.
G. Wodehouse, the stock motifs and characters can be traced back to
him. The greatest writer of Greek New Comedy, Menander (c.341-290
BC) wrote over one hundred plays but until the twentieth century he
was known to us only by short quotations in ancient authors. Since
1907 papyri found in the sand of Egypt have brought to light more
and more fragments, many substantial, and in 1958 the papyrus text
of a complete play was published, The Bad-Tempered Man (Dyskolos) .
His romantic comedies deal with the lives of ordinary Athenian
families, and they are the direct ancestors not only of Roman
comedy but also of English comedy from the Renaissance to the
present day. This new verse translation is accurate and highly
readable, providing a consecutive text with supplements based on
the dramatic situation and surviving words in the damaged papyri.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
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other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
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bibliographies for further study, and much more.
This second edition of the "Oxford Latin Course" combines the best
features of both modern and traditional methods of Latin teaching
from first stages to GCSE. Completely revised and restructured in
the light of a nationwide survey of Classics teachers, it provides
an approach to Latin based on the reading of original texts. Parts
I-III are built around a narrative detailing the life of Horace,
based closely on historical sources, which helps students to
develop an understanding of the times of Cicero and Augustus. Part
III is accompanied by a Reader consisting of extracts from Caesar,
Cicero, Catullus, Virgil, Livy and Ovid.
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