From lsfbar@tin.it Sun Dec 31 05:11:01 2000 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id FAA45930 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2000 05:11:00 -0800 Received: from fep03-svc.tin.it (mta03-acc.tin.it [212.216.176.34]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id FAA21465 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2000 05:10:59 -0800 Received: from oemcomputer ([213.45.137.248]) by fep03-svc.tin.it (InterMail vM.4.01.03.13 201-229-121-113) with SMTP id <20001231131053.PMCG2816.fep03-svc.tin.it@oemcomputer> for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2000 14:10:53 +0100 Message-ID: <002301c0732b$b36c96c0$f8892dd5@oemcomputer> From: "Silvia Barbantani" To: Subject: greek courses Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 14:15:05 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 A friend asked me to forward the following message to the list. Happy New Year to all! Silvia Barbantani -----Messaggio Originale----- Da: Michael Sharp A: Data invio: domenica 31 dicembre 2000 13.51 > A friend has forwarded to me the recent messages of > Claire Milne and David Lupher about possible Greek > courses, which also discuss at some length the Joint > Association of Classical Teachers' Greek Course, > 'Reading Greek'. Five months ago I took over the > position of Cambridge-based Classics Editor at > Cambridge University Press on the retirement of > Pauline Hire and I am writing to the list in this > capacity, although through a friend because my > subscription to the list has not yet been confirmed. > > The Independent Study Guide is meant to be used in > conjunction with, and not to replace, the two main > coursebooks. It provides extensive further help in > tackling the exercises and reading passages, including > the answers, and is designed for those studying the > course who may not have access to a teacher. > > David Lupher raised the question of revisions and it > is a fact, surprising as it may be, that the > correction of typographical errors is the only sort of > change that has ever been made to the main > coursebooks. However, this is about to change since > nearly two months ago I decided to launch a full > review of all the books in the 'Reading Greek' and > 'Reading Latin' series. This will consider everything > from cover-design and layout to the explanation of > grammatical features. There are a number of different > parties with a strong interest in this procedure whom > I shall be consulting extensively, but I very much > welcome any comments and feedback, whether negative or > positive, from those who have taught using the books. > My work e-mail address is msharp@cup.cam.ac.uk, or you > could write to: > > Cambridge University Press > Publishing Division > The Edinburgh Building > Shaftesbury Road > Cambridge > CB2 2RU > UK > > I shall be attending most meetings of the APA/AIA, > including the one in San Diego next week, in case you > wish to speak to me in person. > > The various unsatisfactory grammatical explanations > cited by David Lupher are just the sort of thing which > I shall wish to consider. Although I have not myself > taught using 'Reading Greek', I acquired considerable > experience of teaching Latin and Greek language in > Britain and America during the academic career I > pursued until last summer and I hope that this will > better enable me to make an effective judgment of all > comments and criticisms made. > > Finally, sales of the books are good both in the UK > and in North America, and they are the textbook used > by > the Open University, which is a very important > provider of courses in Latin and Greek in the UK. > > Michael Sharp > > > .