Download this free beginner’s Classical Greek textbook. Just as the name says, First Greek Book is a beginning Greek textbook. Historically, this book was intended for American students of the age of about 15 who had already had at least one year of Latin. The book is intended for learners with no Greek experience and it prepares students to read Xenophon’s Anabasis. It contains 80 lessons and the appendix lists rules of syntax, paradigms, principal parts of important verbs and vocabulary. After this book, the publishers intended students to then move on to Goodwin’s Greek Grammar and First Four Books of Xenophon’s Anabasis.
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I am only to lesson 18, but am finding this book quite helpful. Having had several years of Latin (though quite long ago — it was not, when I was in school, a “dead” language, but quite current) and some experience with the first few lessons of a Koine Greek textbook, I am finding it perfectly understandable. It might, however, cause a problem for a self-learner without some Latin or similar experience. But if there was someone around to help out a bit at the beginning, it could quite possibly work.
For the person whose mind appreciates the straight-forwardness and succinctness typical of older language textbooks, and with some Latin, I would recommend White’s book.
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