Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Background to Plato's Meno

Section 1
The Alphabet,
Punctuation and Accents

Section 2
The Verb "I am"
Asking Questions
Nouns and Declensions
Adjectives
Plurals

Section 3
Subjects and Verbs - Verb Endings
Personal Pronouns
Neuter Plural Subjects

Section 4
The Object
Accusative of Respect or Manner
Note on Greek Dialects

Section 5
Verbs - Middle and Passive Endings
"This",

Section 6
The Present Infinitive
Adverbs
The Genitive Case

Section 7
Conjunctions
The Dative Case
"Who?" and "What?"
"Someone" and "Something"
The Vocative Case
Third and Mixed Declension Adjectivess

Section 8 Prepositions
Verbs - Overview of Tenses
The Imperfect Tense
Augments
Translating Plato's Meno 70a1-70c3

Section 9
The Perfect Tense
The Perfect Tense Middle and Passive
Translating Plato's Meno 70c3-71c4

Section 10
Demonstrative Pronouns
Present Participles
The Perfect Active Participle
Middle and Passive Participles
Translating Plato's Meno 71c5-72a5

Section 11
"Every"/ "All"
The Aorist Tense
The Weak Aorist Indicative Active
The Weak Aorist Indicative Middle
Kinds of Condition
Translating Plato's Meno 72a6-72d3

Section 12
Multiple Questions
The Future Active
The Future Middle
The Subjunctive Mood
Infinitive as Subject and Object
Future and General Conditions
Translating Plato's Meno 72d4-73c5

Section 13
Adjectives with Masculine for Feminine
The Optative Mood
Future Unlikely Conditions
Translating Plato's Meno 73c6-74a6

Section 14
The Strong Aorist Active Tense
The Strong Aorist Middle Tense
Purpose Clauses
Translating Plato's Meno 74a7-74e10

Section 15
Imperatives
Prohibitions
Strong and Doubtful Denials
Translating Plato's Meno 74e11-75d7

Section 16
Contraction (Verbs)
Translating Plato's Meno 75d7-76c3

Section 17
Relative Pronouns: "Who", "What", "Which", "That"
Translating Plato's Meno 76c4-77a2

Section 18
The Aorist Passive Tense
Translating Plato's Meno 77a2-77e4

Section 19
The Genitive Absolute
The Future Passive Tense
Translating Plato's Meno 77e5-78c3

Section 20
Temporal Clauses
The Pluperfect Tense
Translating Plato's Meno 78c4-79a2
Section 21
Contracted Adjective Endings (Third Declension)
Reported Speech
Accusative and Infinitive used for Reported Statements
Participle Construction with "Know" or "See"
Relative Clauses, Direct and Indirect Questions
Translating Plato's Meno 79a3-79c10

Section 22
("Because")
("Although")
Numerals
Multiple Negatives
Translating Plato's Meno 79d1-79e6

Section 23
Irregular Adjectives
Comparatives and Superlatives
Translating Plato's Meno 79e7-80b7

Section 24
Translating Plato's Meno 80b8-81a10

Section 25
Impersonal Verbs
Accusative Absolute
Verbal Adjectives
Reflexive Pronouns
Translating Plato's Meno 81a10-81e6
Appendices
Cases and Prepositions
Summary of Voice, Mood, Tense and Aspect in the Greek Verb
Word Order
Duals
Numerals
Declension of Nouns, Adjectives and Pronouns
Reference List of Verb Endings and Irregular Verbs
Answers
Word List
Principal Tenses of Some of the More Difficult Verbs
Index

About the Author

Frank Beetham is a retired teacher of Classics and author of the successful Beginning Greek with Homer (Bristol Classical Press, 1994).

Reviews

On the whole the book is a welcome and important contribution to the teaching and learning of Classical Greek. B's idea of focusing on Plato seems felicitous both because of the inherent importance of the Platonic texts and the beauty of Plato's Greek style. B has provided us with another option, a new and useful approach to Plato's Greek for which we should be very grateful.