The JACT Greek Course

The JACT Greek Course, which is aimed at beginning students in the upper school, at university and in adult education, was produced by a Project Team (Dr P. V. Jones, Dr K. C. Sidwell and Miss F. E. Corrie) working full-time at Hughes Hall, Cambridge between 1974 and 1978, under the guidance of a Steering Committee and Advisory Panel made up as follows:

Steering Committee: Professor J. P. A. Gould (Chairman; Bristol University)†; M. G. Balme (Harrow School)†; R. M. Griffin (Manchester Grammar School); Dr J. T. Killen (Joint Treasurer; Jesus College, Cambridge); Sir Desmond Lee (Joint Treasurer; President, Hughes Hall, Cambridge)†; A. C. F. Verity (Headmaster, Leeds Grammar School); Miss E. P. Story (Hughes Hall, Cambridge).

Advisory Panel: G. L. Cawkwell (University College, Oxford);Dr J. Chadwick (Downing College, Cambridge)†; Professor A.MorpurgoDavies (Somerville College, Oxford); Sir Kenneth Dover (President, Corpus Christi College, Oxford)†; Professor E.W.Handley (University College, London)†; B.W. Kay (HMI)†; Dr A. H. Sommerstein (Nottingham University); Dr B. Sparkes (Southampton University); G. Suggitt (Headmaster, Stratton School)†; A.F. Turberfield (HMI).

The first part of the JACT Greek Course is Reading Greek (Cambridge University Press, 1978), giving the student a thorough introduction to AtticGreek as well as to Herodotus and Homer. The Foreword to Reading Greek, written by Sir Kenneth Dover, and the Preface give details of the settingup, production, testing and methodology of the Course. The two volumes A World of Heroes: Selections from Homer, Herodotus and Sophocles and The Intellectual Revolution: Selections from Euripides, Thucydides and Plato are designed to take students on from Reading Greek and to give them a graded introduction to six of Ancient Greece’s most important authors.