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teach yourself ancient greek ancient greek gavin betts and alan henry For over 60 years, more than 40 million people have learnt over 750 subjects the teach yourself way, with impressive results. be where you want to be with teach yourself The authors wish to acknowledge the help of George Gellie and Deane Blackman. For UK order enquiries: please contact Bookpoint Ltd., 130 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon 0X14 4SB. Telephone: +44 (0) 1235 827720. Fax: +44 (0) 1235 400454. Lines are open 09.00-18.00, Monday to Saturday, with a 24-hour message answering service. You can also order through our website www.madaboutbooks.com For USA order enquiries: please contact McGraw-Hill Customer Services, PO Box 545, Blacklick, OH 4 3 0 0 4 - 0 5 4 5 , USA. Telephone: 1-800-722-4726. Fax: 1-614-755-5645. For Canada order enquiries: please contact McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd., 300 Water St, Whitby, Ontario L1N 9B6, Canada. Telephone: 905 430 5000. Fax: 905 430 5020. Long renowned as the authoritative source for self-guided learning - with more than 30 million copies sold worldwide - the Teach Yourself series includes over 300 titles in the fields of languages, crafts, hobbies, business, computing and education. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data, a catalogue record for this title is available from The British Library. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number, on file First published in UK 1989 by Hodder Headline Ltd., 338 Euston Road, London, NW1 3BH. First published in US 1993 by Contemporary Books, a Division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, 1 Prudential Plaza, 130 East Randolph Street, Chicago, IL 60601 USA. This edition published 2003. The Teach Yourself name is a registered trade mark of Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. Copyright© 1989,2003 Gavin Betts & Alan Henry In UK: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher or under licence from the Copyright Licensing Agency Limited. Further details of such licences (for reprographic reproduction) may be obtained from the Copyright Licensing Agency Limited, of 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T4LP. In US·. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of Contemporary Books. Typeset by Transet Limited, Coventry, England. Printed in Great Britain for Hodder & Stoughton Educational, a division of Hodder Headline Ltd., 338 Euston Road, London NW1 3BH by Cox & Wyman Ltd., Reading, Berkshire. Impression number 1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Year 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 introduction how to use this book abb