Beginners' Greek

• Credit value: 30 credits at Level 4

This is a course of Ancient Greek language for complete beginners. Teaching will be based on a combination of grammar and translation, allowing you to understand the inner workings of the language and providing you with the necessary tools to read and translate simple passages.

There will be new grammar points to be learned every week, as well as translation practice and simple English into Greek composition.

Coursebook

• Reading Greek, Text and Vocabulary and Reading Greek, Grammar and Exercises (Cambridge University Press, 2007). NB: this is the latest edition.

General reading

• Marinone, N., All the Greek Verbs (Duckworth, 1998).
• Morwood, J., Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek (Oxford University Press, 2001).
• Morwood, J., The Pocket Oxford Greek Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2000).