I want to learn Attic Greek. What to use?

[urpedonmommy]

What have you used and loved? This is for me, not my children, and I want something...gentle. Something other than a straightforward, down and dirty textbook (a la Henle for Latin.) I don't have a lot of time each day, but I am motivated and really want to read Homer in Greek some day. Something with an audio component would be nice.

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[urpedonmommy]

Really? Nothing? How about any Attic Greek curricula you know of? I just don't know what is even available!

[forty-two]

Some Attic Greek resources:
*Athenaze, Books 1 (http://www.amazon.com/Athenaze-Introduction-Ancient-Greek-Book/dp/0199122199/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263246459&sr=1-5)&2 (http://www.amazon.com/Athenaze-Introduction-Ancient-Greek-Vol/dp/0195149572/ref=pd_sim_b_1). Popular college reading approach texts. Some audio online here (http://leserables.tripod.com/audiofiles.html) and also here (http://cornellcollege.edu/classical_studies/ariadne/audio/index.shtml).
*Athenaze, Books 1&2, Italian edition (http://www.vivariumnovum.it/Libri_greci.htm). Closest thing I know of to Lingua Latina in Greek (although Focus Publishing has an updated version of A Greek Boy at Home (link below) in the works that might fit the bill.) Here is a post (http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83103) comparing the U.S. and Italian editions of Athenaze.
*Ancient Greek Alive (http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Greek-Alive-Paula-Saffire/dp/080784800X/ref=pd_sim_b_33). Reading method, begins with 2 weeks of oral Greek. Audio online here (http://home.millsaps.edu/freiscr/Greektapes.html).
*Introduction to Ancient Greek (http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Attic-Greek-Donald-Mastronarde/dp/0520078446/ref=tmm_pap_title_1). Popular college grammar translation text
*Reading Greek (http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Greek-Association-Classical-Teachers/dp/0521698510/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263246782&sr=1-2). Has an independent study guide (http://www.amazon.com/Independent-Study-Guide-Reading-Greek/dp/0521698502/ref=pd_sim_b_3). Has audio (http://www.amazon.com/Speaking-Greek-CD-Reading/dp/0521728967/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263246782&sr=1-5). Does need grammar/ex book (http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Greek-Association-Classical-Teachers/dp/0521698529/ref=pd_sim_b_2).
*Thrasymachus (http://www.amazon.com/Thrasymachus-Greek-Through-Reading-Language/dp/0862921392/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263247072&sr=1-1). Another reading method text. Entertaining stories. Some online notes (http://www.vroma.org/%7Eabarker/thrascontents.html).

Some free resources:
*textkit.com (http://www.textkit.com/greek_grammar.php) Has links to many public domain texts plus an active forum
*Link to site (http://www.johnpiazza.net/ancientgreek) with Greek Boy at Home - public domain beginning reader - plus the corresponding text and lots of other resources.
*An Intelligent Person's Guide to Greek (http://community.middlebury.edu/%7Eharris/GreekGrammar.html) - good grammar overview
*Enchiridion (http://skwoodward.net/greek/prefmat.pdf) - online pdf book designed to get you reading Greek asap, so it just gives you the basics

Hope this is enough to get you started.

[urpedonmommy]

Thanks!!!!:D

[Nan in Mass]

I used Athenaze in college and loved it.