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What comments do you have about Goodell's School Grammar of Attic Greek?

Recently digitized by Dickinson College - see:
http://blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2015/02/ ... tic-greek/

Paul-Nitz wrote:What comments do you have about Goodell's School Grammar of Attic Greek?

Recently digitized by Dickinson College - see:
http://blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2015/02/ ... tic-greek/

I've taken a rather cursory look over it. My first judgment is that it's a relatively good brief presentation of the elements of Attic grammar for use in grammar-translation pedagogy. I'm a bit puzzled why this 1902 publication was deemed particularly worth the effort to scan and digitize. Upon checking the presentation of middle verbs, I find the traditional conception of "deponent" verbs as "middle or passive in form with active meaning." It would seem to me that the Goodwin textbook of 1923 or the Goodwin & Gulick of 1930 would be more useful -- but those, of course, are available even today in print editions.

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George F Somsel wrote:Goodwin's Greek Grammar is on community pricing at Logos

Thanks for the heads up. Logos sends so many adds that I've started to ignore them and missed this. I put in a bid.

cwconrad wrote:Upon checking the presentation of middle verbs

The Middle is the first thing I looked at, too. I was interested in the division of middle into the categories Direct (on himself), Indirect (for himself), Subjective (from himself). I wonder if this categorization is unique to Goodell?

I do wish I had a simpler mental catalog of self-affected uses than the list below, but maybe it's just wishing that the complex be simple.

Direct reflexive: λούεσθαι
Indirect reflexive (autobenefactive): ποιεῖσθαι, κτᾶσθαι
Perception: γεύεσθαι, ὀσφραίνεσθαι, αἰσθάνεσθαι
Mental activity: λογίζεσθαι, οἴεσθαι
Speech act: λοιδορεῖσθαι
Reciprocal act: μάχεσθαι,
Mental process· φοβεῖσθαι
Body motion· ὄρμᾶσθαι, ἵστασθαι, κοιμᾶσθαι, ἐγείρεσθαι
Collective motion: ἀγείρεσθαι, συνάγεσθαιi
Spontaneus process: καίεσθαι, σήπεσθαι, γίνεσθαι
Passive: ποιηθῆναι, γεννηθῆναι
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