A Greek Reader for Chase and Phillips: Selections from Antiquity

This companion reader to Chase and Phillips A New Introduction to Greek (Harvard University Press: Cambridge Massachusetts 1961) is a compilation of slightly edited real Greek from Plato Xenophon Plutarch Diogenes Laertius and the Septuagint. The reader has a preface introducing the student to the Greek authors. The lessons reinforce grammar and vocabulary in this classic introductory textbook. Students meet Socrates Plato Cyrus Julius Caesar Alexander the Great his horse Bucephalus and more. They read about events surrounding Socrates trial and execution Platos analogy of the cave Caesars capture by pirates the first chapter of Genesis and a famous Psalm. In short students are exposed to some of the classics of Western Civilization in this short reader which seeks to complement the proven Chase and Phillips. Schmisek has designed a delightful and extraordinarily helpful text that breathes new life into an old classic. His readings admirably and elegantly illustrate grammatical points in the context of carefully selected passages while engaging the student with both iconic and charmingly idiosyncratic vignettes of Socrates Plato Alexander Caesar and others. --Frank Russell Professor of Classics and History Transylvania University Brian Schmisek is Associate Professor and Director of the Institute of Pastoral Studies at Loyola University Chicago.