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Greek Key Words: The Basic 2, 000 Word Vocabulary Arranged by Frequency in a Hundred Units, with Comprehensive Greek and English Indexes (Oleander Key Words) Paperback – September 25, 2013

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Learn Classical Greek with ease!

Greek Key Words is a learning aid benefiting from computer analysis of the surviving corpus of classical Greek literature, comprising over 1,500,000 words. It consists of a list of the most common two thousand words in ancient Greek, with their meanings in English, arranged in decreasing order of frequency. The list is divided into a hundred units of twenty key words each, from which many more words can be derived, making this an easy way to learn classical Greek.

These two thousand key words account for 85% of all word occurrences in Greek.

Greek Key Words is the most efficient and logical way to acquire the basic vocabulary of ancient Greek. Most grammars and readers introduce words almost at random, so that a student can never be sure of mastering commonly-occurring words within a reasonable period. A frequency list such as Greek Key Words can create confidence and a sense of security in vocabulary building and, by dividing the list into manageable units, mastery can be achieved without undue strain.

Greek Key Words is also weighted towards the authors who appear most often in examinations as set texts or as the basis for unseen translation. It is therefore of the maximum possible practical benefit for those working towards public examinations. Learn ancient Greek with confidence.

Dr Jerry Toner has made sure that both adult beginners and schoolchildren alike will be introduced to all the most frequently-occurring words in classical Greek within their first year or two of study. English and Greek indexes allow the reader to trace each word in the lists and indicates by its position the relative frequency of that word. He is also the author of Latin Key Words (ISBN 978-0906672693).

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oleander Press The (September 25, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 146 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0906672856
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0906672853
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.33 x 9 inches
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    4.3 out of 5 stars 54 ratings

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Jerry Toner

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Dr Jerry Toner is Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Churchill College, Cambridge.

My research looks at Roman social and cultural history, with a focus on trying to look at history 'from below'. I have a number of favourite areas:

1. Popular Culture

My book, Popular Culture in Ancient Rome, analyses the life of the non-elite in Roman society and built on the work I started in my PhD, later published as Leisure and Ancient Rome. I am currently working on a number of projects looking at non-elite Roman social relations. I am also teaching a course in the Classics Faculty with Mary Beard entitled "Popular Culture in the Roman Empire".

2. The (mis-)use of Classics to create various imagery and stereotypes relating to subordinate groups

My book Homer's Turk: How Classics Shaped Ideas of the East shows how historians and travel writers have used classical sources to help create various images of Islam and the Orient.

3. Roman Disasters

My latest book, Roman Disasters, looks at the important role that disasters played in Roman life and culture, ranging from floods and fires to warfare and famine.

4. The Senses in Roman history

I started looking at this in a chapter of my popular culture book, "Common Scents, Common Senses", trying to see how different a sensory world the non-elite inhabited. I am now editing a book on the Cultural History of the Senses in Antiquity which looks at the senses from a wider perspective. I am also contributing a chapter on "Smell and Christianity" to a volume edited by Mark Bradley on Smell in Antiquity.

5. Mental Health

I think the Roman non-elite as a whole had a lot of mental health issues but faced and expressed them in a completely different way from the modern world. A chapter of my Popular Culture book looked at this, while a chapter of the Disasters book looks at the psychological effect of these traumatic events. I have also contributed a chapter based on this to William Harris' edited book on Mental Disorders in the Classical World.

After completing my PhD in Classics at Cambridge, I spent 10 years as a Fund Manager in the City of London before escaping back to academic life in 2006.

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  • BookReview
    5.0 out of 5 stars These books are absolutely fantastic! I have one for German
    Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2014
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    These books are absolutely fantastic! I have one for German, French, Latin, and Classic Greek and I can honestly say that they are truly invaluable for all those who are serious about learning the language. Yes, there are some occasional errors that someone should have picked up on (a few words here and there that aren't translated as properly as they could be), but I challenge anyone to find a book--not to mention one this affordable--that will lay out the most common words (in order of frequency), fantastically and logically organized into sections of around 20 per section--thus setting the stage to maximize efficiency and effectiveness in the least amount of time--that can even come close to these. Again, a must for all those serious about language (and not so serious as well).
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  • Thomas
    5.0 out of 5 stars Helped gf learn greek fast!
    Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2019
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    This is a must have, gf learned basic Greek prior to going to the country, and she was so glad she had learned some prior! Made the visit for her much more fun! Get it.
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  • Steven Craig Miller
    3.0 out of 5 stars Geat Concept!
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    Jerry Toner's "Greek Key Words" is a great concept. So much so that it might be worth getting despite the drawbacks of this book. The printing is horrible; it looks like it was printed on a dot matrix printer. And I've spotted at least one word missing its breathing mark. The bulk of this book is 100 pages of 20 Greek words each, along with the type of word, and gloss (English translation). But the type of word column is ragged and not aligned. Each list of 20 words is ordered in order of their frequency (which is not given) so that the impression one might get is a random list of words. There is an alphabetical list of Greek words in the back, but only page numbers are given. Then there is also an English index (with only page numbers given). I can't help but think that Toner could have done so much more with this list. He could have grouped words together by their endings, or by cognates. And why did he decide to list only the top 2,000 most frequent Greek words? Why not 4,000? Or 5,000?
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  • Marc Ratner
    5.0 out of 5 stars Useful for quick check of vocabulary
    Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2019
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    This vocabulary works well for quick check on words. Though not as thorough as the Oxford Greek dictionary it is useful for a rapid reference.
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  • Alan
    5.0 out of 5 stars an improvement on Smyth
    Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2019
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    great layout
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  • roseystoney
    2.0 out of 5 stars Weird Concept
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    I'm not sure what the point of this list is other than providing classicists-without-computer-skills a list of the top 2,000 most popular words used by a set of particular authors, including the entire New Testament. The list would be more valuable if the words were listed in dictionary form with the principal parts of verbs and nominative and genitive plus gender of nouns, etc. Greek verbs can be pretty screwy. Alternatively, the words could have been listed in categories such as is often done with SAT and ACT vocab books -- e.g., words pertaining to warfare. Far more useful IMO is the set of Classical Greek Vocabulary Cards or Biblical Greek Vocabulary Cards by Vis-Ed.
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  • Zora O'Neill
    3.0 out of 5 stars For ANCIENT Greek
    Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2014
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    My only complaint about the content is that this is for ancient Greek, and that's not clear from the title. (Der, I see the book description specifies classical Greek, but I was scanning quickly and didn't see it.) Docking another star for the utter chintziness of the book itself.
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  • Shaunnjay
    1.0 out of 5 stars Don’t waste your money!
    Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2022
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    No pronunciation! Every page looks like this! Not useful whatsoever! Doesn’t show how to say the words, just what the word looks like. So disappointed and waste of money!
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    Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2022
    No pronunciation! Every page looks like this! Not useful whatsoever! Doesn’t show how to say the words, just what the word looks like. So disappointed and waste of money!
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  • Jasmin Grace
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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    great. just as described
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  • 松戸彩苑
    5.0 out of 5 stars 古典ギリシア語の初心者むけの単語集
    Reviewed in Japan on July 28, 2012
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    本書は、古典ギリシア語の使用頻度がもっとも高い２０００語を、使用頻度の順に配列したものです。

    日本には大学書林という出版社があって「基礎１５００語」という本をたくさん出しているのですが、これまでこのシリーズには現代ギリシア語とラテン語はあったものの、どういうわけだか古典ギリシア語はありませんでした。
    ということで、日本には古典ギリシア語の初心者むけの単語帳というのが（私の知るかぎりでは）一冊も無いので、本書を購入してみました。

    本書の内容ですが、古典ギリシア語で書かれた有名な作品で使われている２００万以上の単語を調べたのだそうです。
    この有名な作品とは、具体的にはAeschylus、Aristophanes、Aristotle、Callimachus、Demosthenes、Euripides、Herodotus、Hesiod、Homer、Plato、Plutarch、Sophocles、Strabo、Theocritus、Thucydides、Xenophonの主要作品と、『新約聖書』を指しています。
    こうして選ばれた２０００の単語で、全体の８５％をカバーする事ができると謳っています。

    レイアウトは単純明快で、最初のページに使用頻度が１〜２０番の単語が並べられて「Unit１」となっていて、次のページに２１〜４０番の単語が配列されて「Unit２」となっていて、これが「Unit１００」まで続いているというものです。

    古典ギリシア語といえば動詞・名詞・形容詞がいろいろと変化するので、辞書においては変化形に関する情報が書いてあるのですが、本書は初心者むけの単語帳なので、こういった表示はいっさい有りません。
    名詞には性別（m、f、n）が書いてありますが、形容詞にはadj.とあるだけで、動詞にいたっては何にも書いてありません（つまり「古典ギリシア語の動詞の能動態直接法現在一人称単数形」と「英訳」のみ）。

    参考までに、この単語帳のいちばん最後の１０個の単語（つまり１９９１〜２０００番目の単語）をあげてみると、αποβλεπω、ορυσσω、υγιησ、αγη、σπειρω、γειτων、ονοσ、νεφοσ、μελεοσ、μανιαとなっています。

    また巻末には「Greek Index」と「English Index」がついていて、収録されてる単語を検索することが出来るようになっています。

    まぁ、はっきり言えば、日本で入手することのできる（日本語や英語で書かれた）古典ギリシア語の初等教科書を何冊か（まじめに）勉強すれば、本書に収録してある単語くらいはだいたい身につくのかもしれませんが、しかし、こういう頻度順の単語帳も一冊あれば、とくに挫折しやすい入門段階で役に立つのではないかと思いました。

    （付記）
    ところで、アメリカのAmazonのサイトを見ていましたら、Geoffrey Steadmanという人が、古典ギリシア語の有名な作品の原文に、単語や文法の説明を併記した本があって、とても良いなと思ったのですが、残念ながら日本のAmazonでは取り扱っていません。
    日本のAmazonでも販売してくれないかなと思いました。
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  • Lucy Kessler
    3.0 out of 5 stars Alright, not sure if it's the best option
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 17, 2013
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    It's definitely got a lot of vocab, but I think asking for a word list might be better - I'm not very sure that those are the top 2000 words, since in 6 years of Greek there were an awful lot I hadn't met. But I've never done New Testament Greek, so that might explain those words.

    Also, very simplistic on meanings - only gave two at maximum, and therefore not necessarily the important ones (eg aner translated to "man" but not "husband"). And it doesn't give any principle parts, so if you didn't know (eg) eimi was irregular, you're in trouble!
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