Athenaze is a series of textbooks published by Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

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 to teach Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the stage of the Greek language in the periods spanning the times c. 9th–6th centuries BC, , c. 5th–4th centuries BC , and the c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD of ancient Greece and the ancient world; being predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek...

. It was written by Maurice Balme and Gilbert Lawall and first published in 1990.

Books I and II offer a variety of information and Ancient Greek background and mythology while giving an overview of verb forms, including 1st, 2nd and 3rd person singular and plural, as well as imperative. Also, it explains articles, adjectives and nouns, and different voices and tenses, as well as prepositions.