James Morwood went on from the post of Head of Classics at Harrow School to take charge of the teaching of the Greek and Latin languages at Oxford University, where he is at present an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. He has authored and co-authored many books on the classical languages and literature.

Stephen Anderson was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and St John's College, Cambridge. Since 1980 he has taught at Winchester College, where he was Head of Classics from 1984 to 2008 and is currently Senior Tutor. He is co-author of a number of classical textbooks widely used in both schools and universities.

ContentsIntroductionAbout the Authors1. The Indicative Tenses of the Verb 1.1 Vitruvius 9, Preface 101.2 Herodotus, Histories 7.228.21.3 Appian, Civil War 2.911.4 Pindar, Pythian 8.20[...]ipides, Medea 3641.6 Demosthenes, De Corona 1911.7 Thucydides, Histories 2.70.11.8 Sophocles, Philoctetes 1066-71[...]ipides, Electra 967-701.10 Plato, Crito 43a-b2. Basic Use of Cases 2.1 Nominative(i) Thucydides, Histories 1.89.1(ii) Aeschylus, Choephoroe 1-22.2 Genitive(i) Plato, Charmides 153a(ii) Plato, Phaedo 118a2.3 Dative(i) Homer, Odyssey 6.246(ii) Thucydides, Histories 1.86.32.4 Accusative2.5 Vocative[...]ipides, Supplices 399-4052.7 St. Luke's Gospel 2.8-122.8 Homer, Iliad 1.357-642.9 Lysias 1.22-24[...]ipides, Alcestis 185-963. Adjectives 3.1 Plato, Ion 533e-534b3.2 Plato, Symposium 221c3.3 graffito from Mount Hymettus3.4 Herodotus, Histories 1.1[...]ipides, Medea 49-553.6 Homer, Iliad 6.414-16, 421-304. Time, Place and Space 4.1 Plato, Apology 17d4.2 Sophocles, Philoctetes 1337-424.3 Xenophon, Hellenica 1.1.14-164.4 Homer, Odyssey 2.171-764.5 Plato, Laws 642d-e4.6 Thucydides, Histories 1.94.1-2[...]ipides, Iphigenia in Tauris 767-764.8 Homer, Iliad 1.17-214.9 Xenophon, Hellenica 6.4.19-204.10 Xenophon, Anabasis 1.4.115. Personal Pronouns and ([ ])5.1 Plato, Gorgias 474b5.2 Xenophon, Anabasis 1.6.75.3 Plato, Apology 38d-39a[...]ipides, Medea 271-765.5 Thucydides, Histories 2.61.25.6 Thucydides, Histories 4.78.45.7 Antiphon, On the Murder of Herodes 505.8 Lysias 1.12-135.9 Thucydides, Histories 4.14.16. Indefinite and Demonstrative Pronouns 6.1 Xenophon, Anabasis 3.1.4[...]ipides, Alcestis 136-406.3 Xenophon, Hellenica 5.1.136.4 Homer, Iliad 10.382-896.5 St. Mark's Gospel 14. 22-266.6 Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 1047-576.7 Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7. 3.2[...]ipides, Orestes 1140-486.9 Demosthenes, De Corona 304-56.10 Herodotus, Histories 2.1007. Participles 1 7.1 Thucydides, Histories 3.112.27.2 Xenophon, Memorabilia 4.4.47.3 Demosthenes, De Corona 1247.4 Homer, Iliad 22.131-387.5 Thucydides, Histories 6.59.47.6 Xenophon, Anabasis 2.3.217.7 Thucydides, Histories 8.68.17.8 Thucydides, Histories 4.39.37.9 Thucydides 2.59.2[...]ipides, Fragment 4618. Relative Clauses 8.1 Menander, Sententiae 560, 5838.2 Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.3.448.3 Sophocles, Oedipus Coloneus 49-538.4 Thucydides, Histories 1.95.5-6[...]ipides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1289-958.6 Lysias 12.16-178.7 Homer, Iliad 1.35-428.8 Andocides, De Mysteriis 61-62[...]ipides, Heraclidae 945-528.10 Thucydides, Histories 1.128.5-79 Particles 9.1 Plato, Apology 26c9.2 Homer, Iliad 1 505-10[...]ipides, Hippolytus 1243-48[...]ipides, Electra 228-319.5 Sophocles, Ajax 1355-599.6 Aristophanes, Lysistrata 908-149.7 Herodotus, Histories 2.49.19.8 Plato, Lysis 219c9.9 Demosthenes, On the Chersonese 429.10 Homer, Iliad 4.401-510 Indirect Statement 10.1 (i) Demosthenes, De Corona 169(ii) Plato, Apology 21c(iii) Demosthenes Olynthiacs 1.1510.2 Xenophon, Anabasis 4.8.4[...]ipides, Medea 1293-130010.4 Xenophon, Hellenica 4. 2.110.5 Lysias 23.5-710.6 Homer, Iliad 13.361-7310.7 Thucydides, Histories 2.3.1-3[...]ipides, Medea 446-5810.9 Plato, Republic 2.359d-60a10.10 Plato, Republic 2.360a-c11 Direct and Indirect Questions 11.1 Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1-411.2 Sophocles, Antigone 1211-1211.3 Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 881-8911.4 Plato, Protagoras 310d11.5 Thucydides, Histories 1.5.1-211.6 Plato, Apology 21a-b11.7 Herodotus, Histories 1.3111.8 Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.2.4512 Commands, Prohibitions and Wishes12.1 Two Extracts from Homer's Odyssey(i) Odyssey 1.1-2(ii) Odyssey 1.169-7212.2 Thucydides, Histories 1.86.512.3 Two Extracts from Tragedy(i) Aeschylus, Persae 402-5(ii) Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis 495-9912.4 St. Luke's Gospel 18.18-25[...]ipides, Phoenissae 1442-5312.6 Aristophanes, Acharnians 280-9912.7 Thucydides, Histories 2.12.2-312.8 Xenophon, Hellenica 4.1.37-39[...]ipides, Electra 1060-7312.10 Homer, Iliad 3.424-3613 Purpose Clauses 13.1 Homer, Iliad 2.38113.2 Xenophon, Anabasis 1.4.1813.3 Lysias 1.413.4 Xenophon, Memorabilia 4.4.1613.5 Homer, Iliad 1.522-2713.6 Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.2.313.7 Xenophon, Anabasis 1.1.313.8 Thucydides, Histories 1.29.113.9 Demosthenes, Olynthiacs 1.213.10 Demosthenes, Olynthiacs 2.1113.11 Sophocles, Electra 378-8414 Result Clauses [...]ipides, Hecuba 73014.2 Lysias 12. 414.3 Plato, Symposium 215e-16a14.4 Sophocles, Antigone 449-5514.5 St. John's Gospel 3.1614.6 Xenophon, Anabasis 7.4.2-414.7 Thucydides, Histories 3.49.1-3[...]ipides, Phoenissae 361-6414.9 Xenophon, Anabasis 2.2.17-1814.10 Lysias 3.6-815 Conditionals 1 15.1 Homer, Iliad 1.56415.2 Plato, Phaedrus 228a15.3 Demosthenes, On the Liberty of the Rhodians 2315.4 Xenophon, Anabasis 2.5.4115.5 Thucydides, Histories 3.54.3-415.6 Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.2.1315.7 Plato, Republic 5.473c-e15.8 Aristophanes, Frogs 584-88[...]ipides, Phoenissae 1615-2115.10 Lysias 7.4116 Conditionals 2 16.1 Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.2.1616.2 Lysias 2.78-80[...]ipides, Helen 68-7716.4 Plato, Apology 32d16.5 Homer, Iliad 5. 674-8216.6 Thucydides, Histories 8.96.3-416.7 Aeschylus, Agamemnon 34-3916.8 Homer, Iliad 2, 483-9216.9 Herodotus, Histories 2.173.2-417 Participles 2 17.1 Homer, Iliad 12.392-9317.2 Xenophon, Anabasis 3.3.117.3 Herodotus 1.30.117.4 Xenophon, Anabasis 1.2.22[...]ipides, Hecuba 303-517.6 Plato, Protagoras 358d17.7 Plato, Alcibiades 1.115a-b17.8 Homer, Iliad 24.477-8417.9 Herodotus 4.136.1-217.10 Plato, Euthydemus 272d-e18 Verbs of Fearing, Precaution and Preventing 18.1 (i) Euripides, Medea 37(ii) Xenophon, Anabasis 1.10.9(iii) Aristophanes, Clouds 492-93(iv) Thucydides, Histories 3.53.2(v) Thucydides, Histories 1.136.1[...]ipides, Medea 282-8918.3 Xenophon, Anabasis 1.7.618.4 Homer, Odyssey 5.299-30718.5 St. Matthew's Gospel 1.19-2218.6 (i) Isocrates 2.37(ii) Sophocles, Trachiniae 1129(iii) Demosthenes, De Falsa Legatione 9218.7 Xenophon, Anabasis 1.3.1118.8 (i) Herodotus, Histories 2.20.2(ii) Sophocles, Antigone 441-43(iii) Plato, Hippias Minor 369d18.9 Thucydides, Histories 3.1[...]ipides, Phoenissae 1172-8619 Indefinite sentences 19.1 Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.1.219.2 Homer, Iliad 9.312-1319.3 Lysias 12.4119.4 Sophocles, Antigone 574-8119.5 Xenophon, Cyropaedia 5.3.5519.6 Thucydides, Histories 2.34.3-519.7 Demosthenes, De Corona 23519.8 Thucydides, Histories 1.99.319.9 Homer, Iliad 1.163-7119.10 Xenophon, Agesilaos 7.320 Temporal Clauses 20.1 (i) Demosthenes, Olynthiacs 1.20(ii) Xenophon, Anabasis 1.6.5(iii) Sophocles, Antigone 9120.2 Thucydides, Histories 2.21.1-2[...]ipides, Hecuba 10-2720.4 Arrian, Anabasis 5.18.620.5 Xenophon, Anabasis 7.2.3120.6 (i) I Corinthians 11.26(ii) Homer, Odyssey 5.55-58(iii) Isocrates 1.24(iv) Thucydides, Histories 2.93.120.7 Aeschylus, Persae 421-2820.8 Xenophon, Anabasis 5.7.3-5[...]ipides, Medea 1021-3921 Impersonal Verbs and Verbal Adjectives 21.1 Xenophon, Anabasis 3.2.1521.2 Plato, Crito 44c21.3 Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.2.2821.4 Andocides 4.17[...]ipides, Medea 238-4321.6 Demosthenes, Philippic 3.7022 Additional Prose Passages22.1 Herodotus, Histories 1.822.2 Herodotus, Histories 2.6822.3 Thucydides, Histories 6.5722.4 Thucydides, Histories 8.122.5 Xenophon, Hellenica, 4.2.10-1222.6 Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.1.21-2222.7 Plato, Apology, 22a-c22.8 Plato, Phaedo 117e-18a22.9 Lucian, Vera Historia 2, 35-3622.10 The Acts of the Apostles 9.1-1223 Additional Verse Passages 23.1 Homer, Iliad 6, 466-8423.2 Homer, Odyssey 22.1-2123.3 Sophocles, Ajax 541-59[...]ipides, Hippolytus 1-2223.5 Sophocles, Antigone, 781-800[...]ipides, Medea 1251-7023.7 Aristophanes, Frogs, 1198-122123.8 Aristophanes, Clouds 1-1823.9 Theocritus 11.17-3723.10 Callimachus, Epigrammata 2AppendicesThe Greek WritersHomer, Herodotus and the New TestamentTwo Important Greek MetersLiterary TermsMap: Greece and the Aegean