St. John.s College Greek

[Harry]

Does anyone know how St. John's teaches Greek? I know that they use only the Classics or Great Books. Do they use some standard textbook for Greek or do they use side by side translations and a Lexicon? It seems they would not just throw in some standard textbook considering their philosohy of original source materials. Harry

[mythopoeic]

http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/academic/langtutorial.shtml

This outlines their method very generally, but doesn't mention which books they use. I think you can gather from this that they at least teach from a grammar and dictionary, but I assume they probably use a textbook.

I didn't study at St. John's but when I learned Greek, the textbook we used was Hansen and Quinn's Greek: An Intensive Course, a no frills grammar memorization marathon which covered all the grammar and vocab so that you'd be able to begin reading Plato.

http://www.amazon.com/Greek-Intensive-Course-Hardy-Hansen/dp/0823216632/ref=sr_1_1/188-6335137-7692823?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240412627&sr=8-1


The most essential Greek Grammar is by Herbert Weir Smyth:

http://www.amazon.com/Greek-Grammar-Herbert-Weir-Smyth/dp/0674362500/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240413144&sr=1-1

But it's too confusing for someone not yet at the intermediate level.