Fobes Francis H. Philosophical Greek: An Introduction

University of Chicago Press, 1970. — 321 pages. — ISBN: 226-25620-0Textbook on ancient Greek that seems to have seen use in US and British colleges and universities in the latter half of the 20th century.Fobes holds out no promise of Greek Without Tears. He has followed the old-fashioned order in his presentation of forms and of syntax; in the first twenty-four lessons the paradigms are given in the body of the book as well as in the paradigm sections at the back. He has not hesitated to manufacture Greek forms for the paradigms or, in the first part of the book, to concoct Greek sentences for translation into English, or to repeat the timeworn beneficial lie about the sign of the first aorist active.The textbook has an emphasis on prose vocabulary, and presents the material in clear, concise sentences. Vocabulary and morphology are often introduced with Latin examples.The last pages of the book are filled with lengthy excerpts, mainly of Aristotle, but also Plato. There is also a list of ~75 proverbial sayings attributed to Menander drawn from A. Meineke’s Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum ii (Berlin, 1847).