A Greek Reader for Chase and Phillips: Selections from Antiquity

A Greek Reader for Chase and Phillips

Selections from Antiquity

Brian Schmisek

A Greek Reader for Chase and Phillips

Selections from Antiquity

Copyright © 2016 Brian Schmisek. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.

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This Greek Reader is dedicated to Carol Andreini and Frank Russell, professors whose love of Classics inspired my own.

Table of Contents

Preface

Abbreviations (alphabetical by abbreviation)

Introduction

Chapter 1: Lesson 5

Chapter 2: Lesson 8

Chapter 3: Lesson 9

Chapter 4: Lesson 16

Chapter 5: Lesson 19

Chapter 6: Lesson 24

Chapter 7: Lesson 25

Chapter 8: Lesson 27

Chapter 9: Lesson 31

Chapter 10: Lesson 34

Chapter 11: Lesson 37

Chapter 12: Lesson 40

Bibliography

Preface

The idea for this reader germinated decades ago when I was an undergraduate learning Ancient Greek under the patient tutelage of Dr. Carol Andreini (now at the University of Mary in North Dakota) and with the textbook by Chase and Phillips. At the time, I wished for more practice reading Greek, as Chase and Phillips provides only a few sentences with each lesson. A supplementary reader also seemed to me appropriate for the introductory Latin textbook by Wheelock. By the time I finished my undergraduate degree, I was delighted to see that Anne Groton and James May’s Thirty-Eight Latin Stories, designed to accompany Wheelock’s Latin grammar, had been published. As I taught Latin at various levels, that reader (now in its sixth edition) was a handy tool for the students’ acquisition of the ancient language. By the time I was in graduate school at the University of Mississippi I had been exposed to many more primary Latin and Greek textbooks and grammars. But many of the Greek introductory texts lacked an accompanying reader. So I proposed to write a thesis that would bring together a variety of readings for different introductory Greek grammars. My mentor and thesis director, Dr. Frank Russell (now at Transylvania University in Kentucky) was open to the idea. So this present work is derived in part from my M.A. thesis. After completing the thesis I moved on to other projects and scarcely gave it another thought. Only recently, upon meeting the good people at Wipf and Stock, was there momentum to publish a reader