For the past several years I have used From Alpha to Omega by Anne Groton as the basic text for Greek 1 and 2 at Tufts. This list shows the topics we cover in the course.
| Covered in Greek 1 | Covered in Greek 2 | For Greek 7 and beyond |
| the alphabet pronunciation pitch vs. stress sandhi rules: n-movable, forms of labial, dental, palatal consonants; aspirate and non-aspirate; voiced and unvoiced long and short vowels, diphthongs principles of accent: nouns persistent, finite verbs recessive enclitics proclitics contraction: in augment, in contract verbs, in s-stem nouns simplification of consonant clusters reduplication, dissimilation of aspirates sound shifts in Indo-European and within Greek long and short syllables; long by nature or by position; Attic correption iambic trimeter, dactylic hexameter, elegiac couplet, anapest princeps, biceps, anceps positions; resolution of princeps, contraction of biceps catalexis |
crasis quantitative metathesis trochaic meters Porson's Law for the iambic trimeter aeolic meters: glyconic, pherecratean principle of strophic responsion mixed-meter lyrics dialects, especially as used in drama |
mixed-meter lyrics aeolic meters: reizianum, choriambic dimeter, sapphic stanza, alcaic stanza internal expansion in aeolics dochmiac meter ionic meter cretic and bacchiac metra dialects: Ionic (Herodotus), Koine (New Testament), Doric (choral poetry), epic, and in general alphabets and evolution of letter forms |
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root, stem, endings, affixes nouns: principal parts; first, second, third declensions definite article adjectives: principal parts; first-and-second, first-and-third, third declensions adjectives of two or three endings pronouns: demonstratives, personal, reflexive, relative, interrogative, indefinite present system: indicative, imperative, infinitive, participle, all voices imperfect indicative future system: indicative, imperative, infinitive, participle, active and middle aorist system: indicative, imperative, infinitive, participle, active and middle, first (sigmatic) and second (strong) aorist perfect system: indicative, imperative, infinitive, participle, all voices pluperfect indicative contract verbs irregular verb |
third declension: i-stems, u-stems, and -er stems pronoun locative and directional suffixes common irregular nouns regular formation of adverbs from adjectives comparison of adjectives and adverbs numerals: cardinal, ordinal, adverbial subjunctive and optative moods, all voices aorist passive, future passive, in all moods root aorist (third or athematic aorist) verbal adjectives of necessity and of capability irregular verbs |
dual forms of nouns and adjectives dual forms of verbs Attic declension less common irregular verbs and nouns basics of derivational morphology |
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how to parse a form the three concords nominative: subject of a finite verb, predicate nominative genitive: with prepositions, possession, agent with dative: indirect object, possession with accusative: direct object, subject of an infinitive, with prepositions, extent of time vocative: direct address substantivized adjectives attribute and predicate position for adjectives and other modifiers use of active, middle, passive voices aspect nominal sentences singular verb with neuter plural subject subordinate clauses: temporal, causal (with relative clauses complementary infinitive direct questions indirect questions participles: attributive, circumstantial, supplementary particles: sentence connection, post-positive words, correlation |
genitive: absolute, of comparison, partitive, subjective, objective dative: agent, degree of difference accusative: of respect, absolute, cognate prolepsis or anticipation attraction of relative pronouns deponent verbs subjunctive: hortatory, deliberative optative: wish, potential infinitive: object, subject, articular conditional sentences, conditional relative clauses, conditional temporal clauses result clauses purpose clauses fear clauses effort clauses prohibitions verbs of hindering or forbidding indirect discourse sequence of moods use of |
historic present gnomic aorist mixed conditionals elliptical conditionals subordinate clauses in indirect discourse attraction or assimilation of mood |
| Covered in Greek 1 | Covered in Greek 2 | For Greek 7 and beyond |
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vocabulary through chapter 26 of textbook words in first 50% of your play, except |
remaining vocabulary in textbook words occurring more than once in Xenophon's Apology words in first 70% of your play total vocabulary of about 600 words |
remainder of the 1000 most frequent words words in first 80% of any text you read (and, ideally, first 90-95%) remainder of the 200,000 or more words in Ancient Greek |
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