Morwood's extracts are less tightly focused than Sidgwick's examples, being longer, and Morwood does not take pains to explain exactly how each extract demonstrates the grammatical principle, but it strikes me as something that would be useful to read through multiple times, until each section is known by heart. I've posted elsewhere about how useful I find Sidgwick's examples of Greek constructions. He has a nice grammatical explanation at the beginning of each section, along with notes, and a vocabulary at the end (given his dictionary, I'm sure it's good). It's organized topically around things like Adjectives, Result Clauses, or Indirect Questions, to give some random examples. Morwood's A Little Greek Reader looks very good, and I plan to read through it. But that's still better than putting too much in. Again, it's a case of cutting out slightly too much.

His grammar is nearly perfect for review, though I would recommend Kaegi's first. An expanded version with more notes on construction and inline principle parts would be appreciated. I have found Morwood's dictionary useful, though it goes slightly too far in cutting out the cruft. The price was $20, so upon seeing a reasonably priced text from OUP, I bought it out of principle. I have created flashcards for new vocabulary and have been making my own audio of the dialogues using a pronunciation close to Erasmian (probably not perfect but good enough for me) and am finding it to really help internalize the content well.Дante wrote:I didn't use it, but I looked at it in Foyles, and it looked very good: James Morwood (of 'Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek' fame) 'A Little Greek Reader': It may not be perfect for everyone and it is a reasonably challenging course (in my opinion) but very worthwhile. I have a long way to go but by my estimate between both books you would have about 300 pages of Ancient Greek materials including some content which is directly from classical authors. Most of the key notes are exactly the same as in the English edition of Athenaze so having both copies can be helpful. Much more vocabulary is introduced too compared to the English edition. In addition Luigi Miraglia was kind enough to 'Oerberg-ize' the Italian Athenaze so that it contains lots of useful pictures throughout. The revision from Accademia Vivarium Novum has significantly more dialogues (Chapter 4 has about 20 pages of Greek readings) although the notes pages are in Italian. The original Athenaze was meant to be like a graded reader but the readings for each chapter are extremely short so I don't feel like they cover enough material and repeat words enough to really sink in as best as I would like. I'm working with jaihare on the Athenaze from Accademia Vivarium Novum which is essentially a graded reader of sorts.

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