Greek Unseen Translation

by John Taylor, Stephen Anderson

Overview

This is a useful collection of 130 passages from Greek authors, ideal for students from pre-GCSE to A Level. Part 1 contains ten passages for the new Intermediate Certificate and twenty at GCSE level. Part 2 contains thirty lightly adapted post-GCSE passages, and ten easy passages to introduce the translation of verse. Part 3 contains thirty prose and thirty verse passages of A-Level standard, largely unadapted except by minor omissions. Vocabulary beyond the core assumed at each level is glossed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350336193
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	11/30/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	472 KB

About the Author

Stephen Anderson was for many years Head of Classics at Winchester College, UK, and is now Rodewald Lector in Classical Languages at New College, University of Oxford, UK. He is co-author of a number of textbooks, including Advanced Latin (Bloomsbury Academic, 2009), Writing Greek (Bloomsbury Academic, 2011) and OCR Anthology for Classical Greek, AS&A-Level 2019-21 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).

John Taylor was for many years Head of Classics at Tonbridge School, UK, and now teaches Classics at Manchester University, UK. He is author of Greek to GCSE (new edition, Bloomsbury Academic, 2016) and Greek Beyond GCSE (new edition, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), co-author of Writing Greek (Bloomsbury Academic, 2011) and Greek Stories (new edition, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), and also author or co-author of a number of Latin textbooks.

Table of Contents

Preface
List of Abbreviations
Hints for tackling an unseen translation passage

PART 1: UP TO GCSE
Intermediate Certificate Passages
GCSE Passages

PART 2: BEYOND GCSE
Post-GCSE / Transition to A-Level Passages
Easy Verse Passages

PART 3: A-LEVEL
A-Level Prose Passages
A-Level Verse Passages

Appendix 1: The Iambic Trimeter and Scansion
Appendix 2: Sources of Passages
Appendix 3: Greek Authors