Category Archives: Greek Composition

I have begun to work through North and Hillard’s Greek Prose Composition. It’s a great little book, published over 100 years ago, that was once commonly used in schools for teaching children to write Greek. It offers exercise-by-exercise vocabulary lists, a English … Continue reading →

(Excerpt from Exercise 3A) οἱ πάλαι ἐτίμων τοὺς εὗ λεγόντας. ὁ κῆρυξ ἔσχον τὴν μεγάλην φωνῆν ἀλλὰ οἱ τοῦτο εἰποντες ἐψεύδοντο. οὐκ ἐθέλε διὰ τὸ ἐν τῇ πόλει στρατεύμα μαχέσθαι, τῶν ἀρίστων Ἀθηναῖων πολλοὶ ἀπέθανον. ἀπώλεσαν τὰ τείχη τὰ ἄρτι πεποιήμενα.