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  • Preface to the first edition

  • Joint Association of Classical Teachers' Greek Course
  • Book:
    The Intellectual Revolution
    Published online:
    28 May 2018
    Print publication:
    19 February 2015, pp ix-x

  • Summary

    The JACT Greek Course

    The JACT Greek Course, which is aimed at beginning students in the upper school, at university and in adult education, was produced by a Project Team (Dr P. V. Jones, Dr K. C. Sidwell and Miss F. E. Corrie) working full-time at Hughes Hall, Cambridge between 1974 and 1978, under the guidance of a Steering Committee and Advisory Panel made up as follows:

    Steering Committee: Professor J. P. A. Gould (Chairman; Bristol University)†; M. G. Balme (Harrow School)†; R. M. Griffin (Manchester Grammar School); Dr J. T. Killen (Joint Treasurer; Jesus College, Cambridge); Sir Desmond Lee (Joint Treasurer; President, Hughes Hall, Cambridge)†; A. C. F. Verity (Headmaster, Leeds Grammar School); Miss E. P. Story (Hughes Hall, Cambridge).

    Advisory Panel: G. L. Cawkwell (University College, Oxford);Dr J. Chadwick (Downing College, Cambridge)†; Professor A.MorpurgoDavies (Somerville College, Oxford); Sir Kenneth Dover (President, Corpus Christi College, Oxford)†; Professor E.W.Handley (University College, London)†; B.W. Kay (HMI)†; Dr A. H. Sommerstein (Nottingham University); Dr B. Sparkes (Southampton University); G. Suggitt (Headmaster, Stratton School)†; A.F. Turberfield (HMI).

    The first part of the JACT Greek Course is Reading Greek (Cambridge University Press, 1978), giving the student a thorough introduction to Attic Greek as well as to Herodotus and Homer. The Foreword to Reading Greek, written by Sir Kenneth Dover, and the Preface give details of the settingup, production, testing and methodology of the Course. The two volumes A World of Heroes: Selections from Homer, Herodotus and Sophocles and The Intellectual Revolution: Selections from Euripides, Thucydides and Plato are designed to take students on from Reading Greek and to give them a graded introduction to six of Ancient Greece’s most important authors.

  • Preface to the second edition (2015)

  • Joint Association of Classical Teachers' Greek Course
  • Book:
    A World of Heroes
    Published online:
    28 May 2018
    Print publication:
    19 February 2015, pp xi-xi

  • Summary

    Preface to the second edition (2015)

    The second, fully revised and reset edition of Reading Greek (2007) consists of two volumes, one of Text and Vocabulary and one of Grammar and Exercises. The fully revised and reset second editions of The Intellectual Revolution and A World of Heroes contain the same selections of authors and follow the same principles as the first editions in the provision of vocabulary and learning vocabulary, and rely on Greek Vocabulary in the same way, but there are two vital differences:

  • all help is given in the order in which it appears in the text;

  • the help now includes extensive grammatical and syntactical notes, together with comment of the sort one would expect to find in an edition of the works in hand.

    • The revision of A World of Heroes was undertaken by Anthony Verity (Homer), James Neville and Alan Griffiths (Herodotus) and Keith Maclennan (Sophocles). We are most grateful for their care and expertise in providing today’s students with what they will need to read these texts fluently and intelligently. Dr Jones is responsible for the final editing.

    My very best thanks go to Cambridge University Press’s Leigh Mueller and Elizabeth Hanlon for the care they took over the editing of this new edition. Thanks also go to Cecilia Mackay for gathering the pictures and permissions.

The Intellectual Revolution
  • Selections from Euripides, Thucydides and Plato
  • 2nd edition
  • Joint Association of Classical Teachers' Greek Course
  • Published online:
    28 May 2018
    Print publication:
    19 February 2015
  • The Intellectual Revolution is a reader designed for students who have just completed an introductory course in ancient Greek and wish to read substantial passages of ancient authors in the original language. It introduces three of ancient Greece's most important authors, Euripides, Thucydides and Plato, and includes such gripping and influential stories as the revenge of Medeia (as told by Euripides); the Athenians' ill-fated Sicilian expedition (from Thucydides' Histories) and the life and death of Socrates. Notes accompanying each passage provide extensive help with vocabulary and translation, and each section contains a brief introduction to the author and his work. The first edition of the book proved very successful with students and instructors for more than three decades. This, the second edition, includes the same texts as the first but provides much more help with translating and understanding them in order better to meet the needs of modern students.

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