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Highlights
- This handbook contains a classified list, with English equivalents, of 1500 words in common use among classical Greek historians, orators and philosophers.
- About the Author: Malcolm Campbell's numerous publications on Greek literature includecommentaries on Apollonius Rhodius, Moschus and Quintus Smyrnaeus, studies on Apollonius Rhodius and a lexicon to Triphiodorus.
- 120 Pages
- Foreign Language Study, Ancient Languages (see also Latin)
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About the Book
This handbook contains a classified list, with English equivalents, of 1500 words in common use among classical Greek historians, orators and philosophers. The aim of the book is to enable learners to read the texts of such authors as Thucydides, Plato and Demosthenes with a high degree of fluency.
Book Synopsis
This handbook contains a classified list, with English equivalents, of 1500 words in common use among classical Greek historians, orators and philosophers. One hundred of these are dealt with at greater length in a supplement, which also focuses on a number of crucial idioms. The aim of the book is that learners drilled in these words over the course of a semester or two should find that they can read the texts of such authors as Thucydides, Plato and Demosthenes with a high degree of fluency. An alphabetical index is provided.
About the Author
Malcolm Campbell's numerous publications on Greek literature include
commentaries on Apollonius Rhodius, Moschus and Quintus Smyrnaeus,
studies on Apollonius Rhodius and a lexicon to Triphiodorus.
