Reddit mentions of Introduction to Attic Greek

Anne Groton a great recommendation, but don't forget about Donald Mastronarde's brilliant Introduction to Attic Greek. One piece of advice that I would offer from my own experience is to go really far out of your way to learn the different forms of the definite article early on. Knowing them will allow you to parse the basic grammatical structure of a sentence quite easily.

If you're reviewing something you learned a while ago, brushing up on fundamentals, might I recommend using Mastronarde's intro to Attic Greek? You can pick it up for under $10.


As I mentioned in a previous thread:

I came into second year Attic with shaky Greek. I was supposed to be reading Xenophon - a good place to start, by the way, with straightforward Attic syntax, and a good learning edition - but I'd come into second year Attic with some problems, namely:

• Greek learned through a shaky and unsystematic book the classics dept. was trying out - they'd liked it because it had good readings, but realized too late into it that a lot of the grammar was done very poorly
  
  
• I had mono during one of the semesters, and though I made it through ok, I didn't have it down firmly.
  
  My prof recommended Mastronarde, in her words "the best second intro Greek book." It has some negative reviews on Amazon, for being "like a firehose" for someone just starting out; it probably is. But for someone who already has some grasp of Greek, it's almost miraculously lucid and systematic. My Greek improved exponentially from studying it: I've got Smyth's grammar for detailed specific questions of study, but when I want to just brush up my Greek, that's where I go. You can skim some of the earlier chapters, and start digging in more deeply once you get to some of the tougher stuff: subjunctive, optative. And it's got guidance on what you should prioritize learning.
  
  A classics scholar's review if you want more info.

Why not just go for Attic Greek, and use Mastronarde. I'm using it, and am about on chapter 20 so far.