Attic Greek Conditionals - Vary by Textbook?

I’m working with Hansen & Quinn (Greek: An Intensive Course) in a course but often refer to Keller & Russel (Learn to Read Greek). I’m just to Lesson 41 in H&Q on Conditional Sentences and find a few disparities from K&D Lesson 96, for examples:

H&Q: Future Most Vivid: Protasis: ἐάν + Subj (does), Apodosis: Fut Ind (will do)

K&R: Future More Vivid: Protasis: εἰ + Φθτ Ινδ (does), Apodosis: Fut Ind (will do)


H&Q: Present General: Protasis: ἐάν + Subj (does), Apodosis: Pres Ind (does)

K&R: Present Simple: Protasis: εἰ + Pres Ind (does), Apodosis: Pres Ind (does)


What might account for the differences?

It’s just a slight difference in classification.
Future conditions are normally as in H&Q, but occasionally you find fut.indic used in the if-clause as well as the main clause.
And the difference between εαν+subj and ει+indic is the difference between “if X happens” and “if X is happening.”

There’s really nothing special about conditional clauses. They behave just like relative clauses and temporal clauses.

Thanks for that.

The H&Q Syntax Appendix has 9 categories of Conditionals vs just the 6 in the main text, with more of the degrees apparent.

Future Vivid appears to have Less, More and Most variations. Who may have, might have or will have thunck it!

As a retired (Bio)Chemist, I find Ancient Greek to be quite similar to my former field, in that the chemistry formulas one can learn are so straightforward compared to chemical reactions “in the wild”.

Simplicity nuanced by complexity equals beauty.

Just wait until you get to mixed conditionals, or conditionals with either the protasis or apodosis left out.