"Although this text was written for use in the intensive summer Greek Institute of the City University of New York, the experience of the last decade has shown it can be used successfully in a wide variety of regularly paced courses."--taken from On the Use of This Text, page ix.
"The Progymnasmata are handbooks which were used in the ancient schools to teach rhetoric ... This volume re-orders the rhetoric teachings which have been passed down from ancient sources ... organising the material around the most commonly supported technical and lexical catego…
"This book is a clearly written, step-by-step guide to the workings of the Greek accent system. It is intended primarily for school or university students who have some knowledge of Greek and wish to acquaint themselves with the accents, either for the first time or by way of re…
Main description: This is the first translation of the Progymnasmata of Severos of Alexandria (indentified here as Severos, Patriarch of Antioch) into a modern language, including a philological commentary and detailed essays on rhetoric and style, as well as the language.
This is the first translation of the Progymnasmata of Severos of Alexandria (indentified here as Severos, Patriarch of Antioch) into a modern language, including a philological commentary and detailed essays on rhetoric and style, as well as the language.
