Intermediate Greek
Grammar and syntax taught in the Intermediate Greek course are as follows:
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Revision of some grammatical constructions from Athenaze I
1. Contracted verbs
2. Infinitive in active and middle voice: forms, meaning and
English translation
3. Participles: formation (including tenses, aspects), declension and
and their use
4. The forms of augment in past tenses: the rule and its exceptions
5. Classification of consonants, and quantity of syllabes
6. Formation of third declension nouns and adjectives
7. Strong aorist in active and middle voice. Tables provided
during the course contained the most common verbs in strong
aorist in both voices. The tables included the verbs in all moods
(that is indicative, subjunctive, optative and imperative),
infinitive and participle
From Athenaze II
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Unit 17. Future tense in active and middle voices, the future of the verb
eimi (to be), the irregular verb eimi (to go), ōs+ future participle, the
construction article+participle. Tables were provided to students
including examples of various forms of future
Unit 18. Verbs didōmi and tithēmi, in active and middle voice, the use of
the participle autos, autē, auton, the formation of the adjectis tachus
Unit 19. The formation and the meaning of the construction of absolute
genitive and accusative, attributive and predicate position of adjectives,
further uses of the article. For the construction of genitive and accusative
absolute the relevant section from Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek, pp.
140-1 were also discussed; the students were requested to learn the most
common participles which appear in accusative absolute from the Oxford
Grammar of Classical Greek, pp. 141-2
Unit 20. The formation of the verb histēmi in active and middle voice,
verbs that take participle as their complement. A detailed table was
provided including all forms in present, imperfect and aorist of active
and middle voice of the verb histēmi
Additional notes were distributed regarding the meaning and the use of
moods namely, subjunctive, optative, and imperative.
Unit 21. The subjunctive mood: forms and uses, the formation of the verb
hiēmi. A detailed table was provided which included all forms in present,
imperfect and aorist of active and middle voice of the verb hiēmi.
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Additional notes were provided concerning the forms of subjunctive of
aorist active and middle of some verbs in strong aorist, and –mi verbs
Unit 22. Indefinite or general clauses, the declension of the pronoun
hostis, hētis, hoti, the words that introduce indefinite temporal clauses, the
formation of the verb deiknumi, indirect statement and questions
Unit 23. Passive voice: present and imperfect tenses, prepositional
prefixes and euphony, indirect statements with infinitives, and
participles, attraction of relative pronouns to case of antecedent
Unit 24. The passive voice: first aorist and first future passive, second
aorist passive and second future passive, aorist of deponent verbs, the
construction hopōs + future indicative after verbs expressing care or
effort, comparison of adjectives and adverbs
Unit 25. The uses of the optative mood in main and subordinate clauses,
the forms of the optative, the optatives of eimi (to be) and eimi (to go), the
optative mood in indirect speech. Additional notes were provided to the
students containing the uncontracted and contracted forms of the verbs,
timō, philō, dēlō in optative
Unit 26. The correlatives, the uses of the genitive case, the uses of the
dative case, the uses of the accusative case. Additional examples were
provided regarding the use of the above mentioned cases.
Unit 27. The meaning of perfect and pluperfect in middle and passive
voice, the forms of the perfect middle and passive, the articular infinitive
Unit 28. First perfect and pluperfect active, second perfect and pluperfect
active
Unit 30. Conditional Clauses
Miscellaneous
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The formation of the relative pronoun hos, hē, ho (from Oxford Grammar of
Classical Greek, p. 50), the interrogative and indefinite pronouns tis (from
Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek, p. 48), the deictic pronoun outos, autē,
touto (from Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek, p. 49), the personal
pronouns (from Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek, p. 46), the possesive
pronouns (from Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek, p. 46), the reflexive
pronouns (from Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek, p. 47)
The formation of the verb oida, phēmi (from Athenaze II, tables, p. 261
and 258 respectively)
Apposition
Agreement of adjectives
The syntax of the infinitive: subject and complements
Sequence of tenses and moods from Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek,
pp. 152-3, and teacher’s notes
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-mi verbs: some meanings
Except from the course book Athenaze II and the Oxford Grammar book,
recommended for the course, for a better undersading of some grammatical
and syntactical forms the following books were used:
 Mastronarde, D. J (1993), Introduction to Ancient Greek. University of
California
 Hansen, H and Quinn, G.M (1980), Greek an Intensive Course. New York
 Goodwin, W. W (first published 1879, 2004 repr.), Greek Grammar.
Bristol Classical Press
Coursebooks:
M. Balme and G. Lawal, Athenaze II (Oxford 1995)
J. Morwood, Oxford grammar of Classical Greek (Oxford 2001).
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