From Alpha to Omega (Fourth Edition)

A new edition of the bestselling Classical Greek textbook, that combines a traditionally rigorous introduction of Ancient Greek with an encouraging, pleasant, and accessible presentation for today’s modern students. From Alpha to Omega inspires students of Ancient Greek by structuring lessons around manageable selections of actual Ancient Greek writings, beginning with Aesop’s most amusing and curious fables. By the second half of the book, students are able to take on instructive passages from The New Testament, Demosthenes, Xenophon, Thucydides, Lysias, Arrian, Aristotle, and Plato. Course Instructors: An electronic answer key for the textbook (PDF only) is available for qualified adopters. If you have adopted the text, click here to request the answer key.

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A Beginning Course in Classical Greek

Anne H. Groton

2013 - 540 pp. - Imprint: Focus

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Format ISBN Price Qty
Paper 978-1-58510-391-1
$42.95
Instructor Examination (Review) Copy 978-1-58510-391-1
$5.00

eBook available for $27.95. Click HERE for more information and purchasing options.

From Alpha to Omega provides an introduction to Classical Greek with an encouraging and accessible presentation for today’s students. Fifty short lessons allow students to master a concept before moving on to the next. Each lesson is accompanied by numerous exercises, as well as manageable selections of Ancient Greek writings (edited in early chapters) from Aesop’s most amusing and curious fables to concise Greek passages from The New Testament, Aristotle, Arrian, Demosthenes, Lysias, Plato, Thucydides, and Xenophon.

The fourth edition retains all of the features that have made it a best-selling introductory Greek textbook, many of them improved or expanded:

  • Balanced, evenly-paced lessons to accommodate various academic schedules
  • Brief readings from Ancient Greek authors
  • Efficient translation exercises
  • Succinct, instructive vocabulary lists
  • Glossary containing all vocabulary words from lessons and readings, both Greek-to-English, and English-to-Greek

Click here to see the complete Table of Contents (PDF). Click here to see a sample chapter (chapter 13, PDF).

An Ancillary Exercise Workbook and a Greek reader are also available, see below for more information.

 

Instructor Resources & Student Resources:

  • Answer key for course instructors: An electronic answer key for the textbook (PDF only) is available for qualified adopters. If you have adopted the text, click here to request the answer key. An electronic (PDF) translation key for the reader, Forty-Six Stories in Classical Greek, is also available to course instructors and may also be requsted here.
  • Ancillary Workbook: From Alpha to Omega: Ancillary Exercises, Second Edition by Jon Bruss and Jennifer Starkey. To purchase, or learn more about the ancillary workbook, click here.
  • Ancillary Reader: Forty-Six Stories in Classical Greek by Anne Groton and James May. To purchase, or learn more about Forty-Six Stories in Classical Greek, click here.

  

About the Author:

Anne H. Groton is Professor of Classics at St. Olaf College, where she has chaired the Department of Classics and directed the programs in Ancient Studies and Medieval Studies.