This text-book offers a conscious and gentle method of immersion, convenient for all students of any background. It provides numerous and efficient exercises, and presents various excerpts from Greek authors right from the first steps. It is self-sufficient. It is the first-choice tool for self-taught students, high school or collège teachers.

It has been a best-seller in its category for over thirty years in its French version. Going safely step by step, students will acquire the essential notions to approach ancient Greek literature, in original texts.

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This word, pronounced hermaïon, gives its Greek title to this work ; it désignates a godsend, a wind-fall, a happy finding placed on your path by Hermes, god of the highways and of all human and/or divine communications.

About the author : Jean-Victor Vernhes has dedicated his career to the teaching of Ancient Greek and Greek Linguistics at the Université of Aix-Marseille (France). He has reached a vast public directly, and through his textbook. Furthermore, he has founded a successful and widespread association (Connaissance hellénique) through which thousands of self-taught people have been able to know Ancient Greek. Reconstruction of Classical Greek pronunciation has been one of his main areas of interest, as well as some questions of syntax and etymology.

About the translator : Monique L. Cardell, Ph.D., is currently a distinguished visiting professor of linguistics at Zhejiang Gongshang University in Hangzhou, China. She is a noted author on a diverse range of Hellenistic and Greco-Bactrian topics, and has been a lecturer of Greek associations in Europe and in North America. Dr. Cardell is a certified teacher of Greek, Latin, and French in New Jersey (USA). She is a past récipient of the McKinley Scholarship from the Institute of the American Classical League, and has been honored by the Government of France with the Palmes Académiques and was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.