Reading to Extend and Keep Alive Greek Skills

Sources/Lists of Greek and Latin texts available:

B.H. Blackwell's Classical listings-- one of the major world suppliers of books in the Classics: Oxford, UK
URL: http://www.blackwell.co.uk/bookshops/oxtour/shelfcats/classical.html

Cambridge University Press Classical catalog
URL:http://www.cup.org/Titles/CLASSICAL.html

Bristol Classical Press and Focus Classics Books
URL: http://www.pullins.com/txt/classics.htm

Oxbow Books (Aris & Philips in USA): important publisher of major Greek authors with commentaries.
URL:http://www.arisandphillips.com/cat98011.htm

Lucian: Selections K. Sidwell (Ed.)
paperback, 150 pages
ISBN: 0-906515-36-X
$15.95
BCP Greek text. Introduction, notes, exercises, appendix and vocabulary.

Lysias: Five Speeches: 10, 12, 14, 19, 22 E. Shuckburgh (Ed.)
paperback, 204 pages
ISBN: 0-906515-44-0
$22.95
BCP 1979 (Macmillan 1882). Greek text. Introduction, notes and appendices.

Lysias: Five Speeches: 1, 12, 19, 22, 30 M. Edwards
paperback, 198 pages
1-85399-447-2
$22.95
BCP 1998.

Plato: Euthyphro C. Emlyn-Jones (Ed.)
paperback , 124 pages
ISBN: 1-85399-132-5
$20.95
BCP 1991. Greek text. Introduction, notes and vocabulary.

Plato: Republic I D.J. Allan (Ed.)
paperback, 136 pages
ISBN: 1-85399-254-2
$18.95
BCP 1993 (Methuen 1977) Greek text. Introduction, notes and appendix.

Xenophon: The Persian Expedition (= Anabasis) J. Antrich and S. Usher (Eds.)
paperback, 200 pages
ISBN : -906515-11-4
$18.95
BCP 1978. Greek text. Introduction, notes, vocabulary, selected bibliography, maps and illustrations.

Plato: The Martyrdom of Socrates: Apol and Crito with Sel Phaedo F.C. Doherty (Ed.)
paperback, 112 pages
ISBN: 0-906515-96-3
$16.95
BCP 1981 (OUP 1923) Greek text. Introduction, notes and vocabulary.

Plato Apology : Text, Grammatical Commentary, Vocabulary
by Plato, James J. Helm (Editor)
Amazon Price: $15.00
Paperback Revised edition (March 1997)
Bolchazy Carducci; ISBN: 0865163480

Other possibilities:

Biblical Greek: In the New Testament, the Gospel of John is relatively easy Greek; in the Old Testament there is the Septuagint (LXX); there's a paperback edition of a book published a century ago and edited by Conybeare and Stock, entitled "Selections from the Septuagint." The Joseph narrative from Genesis is included in that volume and is interesting reading.

AppendixNunn.pdf Appendix of H.P.V. Nunn, A Short Syntax of New Testament Greek (Cambridge U.P., 1913); this appendix contains Greek texts of Acts 10 and of the following extracts from early Christian Literature: selections from The Didache, I (?) Clement (to the Corinthians), Hermas, Gospel acc. to Peter, "The Christians In The World" (author unk.), Martyrdom of Ignatius, Martyrdom of Carpus, Martyrdom of Polycarp, Justin Martyr's apology, Lucian's view of Christians, and the Last Words of Socrates. The Greek texts are annotated with simple glosses and references to items in the grammar.

Follow-up texts in the same series with Reading Greek (all of these are published by Cambridge University Press)

J.A.C.T. Greek Course
A World of Heroes: Selections from Homer, Herodotus and Sophocles
Joint Association of Classical Teachers
Joint Association of Classical Teachers Greek Project
Subject: classical studies
1979        5 1/4 X 8 1/4        152 pp.        5 maps 35 plates
Paperback        0-521-22462-4        $19.95
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J.A.C.T. Greek Course
The Intellectual Revolution: Selections from Euripides, Thucydides and Plato
Joint Association of Classical Teachers
Designed to take students from "Reading Greek" to wider reading.
Joint Association of Classical Teachers Greek Project
Subject: classical studies
1980        5 1/4 X 8 1/4        172 pp.        several tables several maps
Paperback        0-521-22461-6        $19.95
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J.A.C.T. Greek Course
The Triumph of Odysseus: Homer's Odyssey Books 21 and 22

Joint Association of Classical Teachers
This book is part of the Reading Greek course. It is modeled on the already published A World of Heroes (CUP, 1979) and The Intellectual Revolution (CUP, 1980) and provides an unabridged text of Books 21 and 22 of Homer's Odyssey. The Greek text is faced with a running vocabulary and notes, and followed by a learning vocabulary, and the book is illustrated throughout. It can be used by anyone who has completed Reading Greek or is at an intermediate or advanced stage of ancient Greek.
Contributors: Preface/Abbreviations / Notes/ Introduction /Odyssey Books 13-20/The Art of Homer/ Homeric Metre/Further Reading/List of Dramatis Personae/ Odyssey Book 21/Odyssey Book 2 / Learning Vocabulary/Details of Photographs and Drawings.
Joint Association of Classical Teachers Greek Project
Subject: classical studies
1996        5 3/4 X 8 1/4        99 pp.        30 halftones
Paperback        0-521-46587-7        $18.95
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J.A.C.T. Greek Course
An Independent Study Guide to "Reading Greek"

Joint Association of Classical Teachers
This Independent Study Guide is intended to help students who are learning Greek on their own or with only limited access to a teacher. It contains notes on the Greek texts that appear in the Reading Greek Text volume, translations of all the texts, answers to the exercises in the Grammar, Vocabulary and Exercises volume and cross references to the relevant fifth-century B.C. background in The World of Athens. There are instructions on how to use the course and the Study Guide. Apart from those studying entirely on their own, students in schools, in universities and summer schools who have to learn Greek rapidly and intensively will also welcome the appearance of this book.
Contents: Authors' note; Introduction; Abbreviations used in the text; Preliminaries; Section 1; Section 2; Section 3; Section 4; Section 5; Section 6; Section 7; Section 8; Section 9; Section 10; Section 11; Section 12; Section 13; Section 14; Section 15; Section 16; Section 17; Section 18; Section 19
Joint Association of Classical Teachers Greek Project
Subject: classical studies
1995        5 3/4 X 8 1/4        358 pp.
Paperback        0-521-47863-4        $24.95