Suggestions for further study

Editions of Greek texts with notes and a vocabulary

Euripides, Hecuba, ed. M. Tierney.

Homer, Iliad III, ed. J.T. Hooker.

Homer, Odyssey vi & vii, ed. G. Edmonds.

Plato, The Martyrdom of Socrates (Apology, Crito and selections from Phaedo), ed. F. Doherty.

Xenophon, The Fall of Athens (selections from Hellenica I & II), ed. T. Horn.

Xenophon, The Persian Expedition (selections from the Anabasis), ed. J. Antrich & S. Usher.

All the above are published and distributed by the Bristol Classical Press (a division of Duckworth, 61 Frith Street, London W1V 5TA, England; internet address http://ducknet.co.uk).

Further Selections

A number of other elementary editions are available from the Bristol Classical Press and from Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers (1000 Brown Street, Wauconda, Illinois 60603, U.S.A.; internet address http://bolchazy.com).

Bilingual editions of nearly every ancient Greek author exist in the series The Loeb Classical Library, published by Harvard University Press.

Dictionaries

H.G. Liddell and R. Scott, Abridged Greek Lexicon, Oxford U.P. (the best dictionary available for those who have finished this book and wish to read authors in editions which do not have a vocabulary).

H.G. Liddell and R. Scott, Greek-English Lexicon 9^th ed., Oxford U.P. (the largest Greek-English dictionary).

S.G. Woodhouse, English-Greek Dictionary , Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Grammars and books on language

E. Abbott and E.D. Mansfield, A Primer of Greek Grammar, Duckworth (uses much the same terminology as the present work and contains a certain amount of additional information).

H.W. Smyth, Greek Grammar, Harvard U.P. (a full treatment of all aspects of Greek grammar).

L.R. Palmer, The Greek Language, Duckworth (an advanced account of ancient Greek and its history).

W.S. Allen, Vox Graeca: A Guide to the Pronunciation of Classical Greek, Cambridge U.P.

Other works of reference

The World of Athens: an Introduction to Classical Athenian Culture (various authors), Cambridge U.P.

M.I. Finley, The Ancient Greeks, Pelican

K.J. Dover, The Greeks, BBC

Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, Oxford U. P.

Oxford Classical Dictionary, Oxford U. P.

H.J. Rose, Handbook of Greek Mythology, Routledge.

P. Grimal Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Penguin (an alphabetical arrangment of the basic information contained in the previous title).