Course Material
Discover a fantastic collection of free, classic resources for learning Ancient Greek at Ancient Greek Tutor. The page offers high-quality PDF downloads of timeless 19th-century textbooks — including Initia Graeca, First Greek Course, First Greek Reading Course, and An Introduction to Greek Prose Composition (editions from 1868–1909) — perfect for beginners and self-learners building strong foundations in grammar, reading, and composition straight from historical sources
Initia Graeca
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Sir William Smith, A first Greek Course, London 1909
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William Smith, First Greek Reading Course, London 1868
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William Smith, An introduction to Greek Prose Composition, London, 1870
Greek Textbooks
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A Brief Introduction to New Testament Greek, Samuel G. Green
A First Greek Course, Sir William Smith
A Short Syntax of New Testament Greek, H.P.V. Nunn
First Greek Book, John Williams White
First Greek Grammar Accidence, W. Gunion Rutherford
First Greek Grammar Syntax, W. Gunion Rutherford
Homeric Greek – A Book For Beginners, Clyde Pharr
Introduction to the Language and Verse of Homer, Thomas D. Seymour
NT Greek in a Nutshell, James Strong
An Introduction To Greek, Crosby and Schaeffer
Greek Prose Composition
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First Greek Writer, Arthur Sidgwick
Greek Prose Composition, North and Hillard
Introduction to Greek Prose Composition, Arthur Sidgwick
Lectures on Greek Prose Composition, Arthur Sidgwick
Selections from the Septuagint, Conybeare and Stock
Greek Answer Keys
A Brief Introduction to New Testament Greek Key, Samuel G. Green
First Greek Book Key, John Williams White
First Greek Writer Key, Arthur Sidgwick
Greek Prose Composition Key, North and Hillard
Greek Prose Composition Key, Arthur Sidgwick
Homeric Greek – A Book For Beginners Key, Clyde Pharr
Teacher’s Manual for An Introduction To Greek, Crosby and Schaeffer
Reading Texts
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Book Twelve of The Odyssey in Greek, Richard A. Minckwitz
Easy Selections From Plato, Arthur Sidgwick
Plato’s Apology of Socrates and Crito in Greek, Louis Dyer
Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus in Greek, F. D. Allen
Selections From Herodotus in Greek, W. Walter Merry
The Gospel of St. Luke in Greek, H.R. Heatley
The Iliad by Homer Books XIX – XXIV in Greek, Edward B. Clapp
The Odyssey by Homer Books I – IV in Greek, B. Perrin
The Odyssey by Homer Books V – VIII in Greek, B. Perrin
Xenophon’s Anabasis in Greek – Book VI, G.M. Edwards
Dictionaries and Lexica
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First Four Books of Xenophon’s Anabasis, William W. Goodwin
Illustrated Dictionary to Xenophon’s Anabasis, John Williams White
Pocket Lexicon of Greek New Testament, Alexander Souter
Greek Grammars
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Greek Grammar, William W. Goodwin
Greek Grammar, Herbert Weir Smyth
Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, William W. Goodwin