Preface

The original Teachers’ Notes to Reading Greek was compiled by James Neville, formerly Head of Classics at Tonbridge Girls’ School, Kent, with additional help from John Muir, then of the King’s College London, Faculty of Education. James Neville had used Reading Greek (RG) from its earliest trial versions, and subsequently as Associate Lecturer for Open University Greek courses, in a wide variety of teaching conditions. The notes on the illustrations in the Text of RG (pp. 000–000) were contributed by Brian Sparkes, now Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Southampton, who was responsible for their selection; Professor Sparkes also wrote the notes on Attic vases and vase-painters (pp. 000–000). Professor Edward Phinney† of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst described how RG might be used in the American high schools. One final act of thanks was made to Professor W. K. Lacey† and his students at The University of Auckland, NZ, for the full index to the (first edition) Grammar volume of RG, which for technical reasons appeared in the Teachers’ Notes. This index, now revised and updated, appears in its proper place, the Grammar and Exercise volume of the second edition of RG.

The notes have now been revised by James Neville and the Director of the JACT Greek Course series, Dr Peter Jones, to bring them in line with the second edition of Reading Greek, while the notes on the illustrations have been revised by Professor Sparkes. My heartfelt thanks to them both. Dr. Iveta Adams did miracles copy-editing a complicated text. All errors of (c)om(m)ission are to be laid at my door.