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    A Greek Reader for Chase and Phillips: Selections from Antiquity
    A Greek Reader for Chase and Phillips: Selections from Antiquity
    A Greek Reader for Chase and Phillips: Selections from Antiquity
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    A Greek Reader for Chase and Phillips: Selections from Antiquity

    By Brian Schmisek

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    This companion reader to Chase and Phillips, A New Introduction to Greek, (Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1961) is a compilation of slightly edited "real Greek" from Plato, Xenophon, Plutarch, Diogenes Laertius, and the Septuagint. The reader has a preface introducing the student to the Greek authors. The lessons reinforce grammar and vocabulary in this classic introductory textbook. Students meet Socrates, Plato, Cyrus, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, his horse Bucephalus, and more. They read about events surrounding Socrates' trial and execution, Plato's analogy of the cave, Caesar's capture by pirates, the first chapter of Genesis, and a famous Psalm. In short, students are exposed to some of the classics of Western Civilization in this short reader, which seeks to complement the proven Chase and Phillips.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWipf and Stock
    Release dateMar 18, 2016
    ISBN9781498238519
    A Greek Reader for Chase and Phillips: Selections from Antiquity
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    Brian Schmisek

    Brian Schmisek is Provost at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, IL a position he accepted after serving as Provost and Dean of Faculties at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Prior to that he was Professor and Dean of the Institute of Pastoral Studies at Loyola University Chicago, and the Founding Dean of the School of Ministry at the University of Dallas. He is an award-winning author and published scholar.

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      Selections from Antiquity

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      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

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