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Rouse's Greek Boy |
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Rouse's Greek Boy A Reader 2010 • 978-1-58510-324-9 • paper • 160 pages • 6 x 9 • $16.95 | About the Authors | Table of Contents | Preface | Review |
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Description Rouse’s Greek Boy: A Reader is a slight revision of Rouse’s original Greek language reader, A Greek Boy at Home. Although designed to accompany Rouse’s grammar text, it is a useful reader for beginning Greek course. It begins with simple grammar and builds in complexity as the course continues. This edition includes revised and modernized “Hints for using the book” and is intended to be used by a forthcoming version of Rouse’s First Greek Course.
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Anne Mahoney is Lecturer in Classics at Tufts University. She has published articles and reviews on Greek poetry, particularly drama; and on Latin poetry, from Saturnians to the 19th century. Her re-issue of Morice's Stories in Attic Greek was published by Focus in 2006. She also has overseen the revision of Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Focus Publishing and updated the metrical material in that key reference work.
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Preface to the Focus Edition Preface to the 1909 Edition Hints for Using the Book Rouse's Greek Boy Appendix Vocabulary |
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Rouse’s reader, originally called A Greek Boy at Home, is a supplement to his First Greek Course. It begins quite simply, but the grammar becomes more complicated as the book goes on. The first chapter assumes the reader knows the first and second noun declensions, the present indicative active of thematic verbs including contract presents, the present of εἰμί, and the major pronouns. The imperfect and the second aorist are introduced at chapter 5 and the first aorist at chapter 6. The book may be used as a supplement with any first-year Greek text. The vocabulary is, as Rouse notes in his preface, "very mixed," but the most essential words are not only introduced but repeated many times. Thus students will learn the core vocabulary of Greek prose; it won’t hurt them if they have also met some words they may only meet in Aristophanes or in, say, Daphnis and Chloe. Although Rouse’s students learned Latin before coming to Greek, this reader does not assume knowledge of Latin. The story of Thrasymachus’s life and education is engaging, and introduces the idioms and style of connected Attic prose. I have revised the "Hints for using the book" to conform to modern practice: for example, Rouse invariably refers to students as "boys." Readers may wonder whether Rouse’s character Thrasymachus is related to the character in C. W. E. Peckett and A. R. Munday’s text Thrasymachus. As Peckett and Munday acknowledge Rouse’s assistance and include some of his Chanties, I dare say their Thrasymachus, who hears stories from Homer himself, is an ancestor of ours, who lives in classical Athens. -- Boston, 9 October 2009
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