Ebook: The beginner's Greek book

Publisher: Boston, E.E. Babb and Co.
Date: 1898
Pages: 488
Language: EnglishThe Beginner's Greek Book is an attempt to apply the principles of pedagogy to the preparation for reading Xenophon's Anabasis. It is complete in itself, and is intended to furnish the first year's work. The book is fully illustrated, printed in large type, and in every way
made legible and attractive. The leading principles of the language, the inflectional forms, fundamental rules of syntax, exercises and vocabularies, are given in a manner at once clear and most convenient for the learner's use. The full scientific treatment of these forms and rules, is
accompanied by brief critical observations especially suited to the needs of the secondary pupil. Although by this manner of treatment and style of typography, the number of pages is necessarily increased, the pupil's facility in the study of Greek, is thereby greatly augmented. The subject matter of the book, taken mainly from the first chapters of the Anabasis, contains only that which is of prime importance in the subsequent acquisition of Greek. While avoiding on the one hand, the meagreness of the epitomes, and on the other, the unassimilated material of many text books for the secondary school, its aim is completeness. It gives a full treatment of transliteration, a
brief scientific exposition of the fundamental uses of the prepositions, a practical treatment of word formation, of Grimm's Law, and of word grouping.