Does anyone know of any good textbooks for learning it? Particularly for a beginner? I was told to start with Attic Greek when it comes to studying this language. Thanks!
Several of the books downloadable from here such as First Greek Book, John Williams White are Attic. They are free because they old. If you try one and it works for you then you don’t need to ask further. If not, then if you say why the one you tried didn’t work for you, we will be in a better position to suggest a textbook that would suit you.
Good luck
I used Reading Greek (old edition). Rather pricey, but it has the independent study guide.
http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Greek-Association-Classical-Teachers/dp/0521698510
http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Greek-Association-Classical-Teachers/dp/0521698529
http://www.amazon.com/Independent-Study-Guide-Reading-Greek/dp/0521698502
Reading Greek is excellent I used it and then switched to Athenaze book 2. You could also start with Athenaze book 1. Mastronarde looks good too and there is on line help for it.
Despite what others have written I strongly advise learning Attic first rather than trying Homeric greek. When you know a fair amount of Attic Homeric greek is more understandable. Of course apart from the multiplicity of forms Homer is a lot simpler syntactically than most attic which I guess is the attraction.
The most important thing is to start and make small steps every day. Good luck!
Reading Greek is my least favorite textbook.
There is little attempt to restrict the vocabulary of the exercises to a manageable core so you are constantly looking up words to do them.
The grammar explanations are very long winded and a result not clear.
By comparison John Taylor’s Greek to GCSE keeps the exercises exclusively to a core vocabulary so you almost never have to look up a word. The grammar explanations are concise and to the point and as a result clear.
Both books use the same fairly traditional method but Taylor does it well and Reading Greek makes a complete dogs-dinner of it. … IMHO.