BW Abitur Ancient Greek cheat sheet
BW Abitur Ancient Greek · Keep the key ideas within reach.
Ancient Greek morphology, aspect and constructions
Combine morphology, agreement and governing construction.
Ancient Greek has no separate morphological ablative case.
Aorist aspect is not an automatic past-time rule in every mood.
Distinguish genitive absolute, attributive and supplementary participles.
Reading and translating Ancient Greek passages
Separate explicit information, warranted inference and invented background.
Particles and pronoun reference connect the whole passage.
Preserve speaker, negation, aspect and logical relationship.
Practise full translation in the actual required target language.
Ancient Greek lexicon, word families and derivatives
Learn grammatical forms and constructions with each lemma.
Choose the passage-specific sense of a polysemous word.
Distinguish source form, transliteration and attested derivative.
Etymology does not prove unchanged modern institutional meaning.
Greek authors, genres, rhetoric and interpretation
Epic narratives do not cover every event of their mythical cycle.
Distinguish author, narrator and represented speaker.
Use Greek textual evidence for rhetorical and metrical analysis.
A dialogue character’s assertion is not automatically an authorial doctrine.
Ancient Greek institutions, history, myth and reception
Specify polis, period and source perspective.
Ancient political participation differs from modern citizenship arrangements.
Distinguish historical evidence, mythic narrative and philosophical argument.
Koine and Modern Greek are not interchangeable with every classical dialect.