Learn Ancient Greek: 16_Unit 3 Purpose Clauses
Channel: The Center for Hellenic Studies
Date: 2016-01-25

Leonard Muellner (Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies at Brandeis University) and Belisi Gillespie present all the content covered in two semesters of a college-level Introduction to Ancient Greek course.

What is a "purpose clause"? Professor Muellner first explains what a "clause" is and then takes us through this important bit of syntax. Greek prose is full of complex syntactical clauses like this one, so understanding how they're put together and why they're used in certain ways will make your progression through these lessons much easier. An important note about negating clauses follows the general introduction. The section on "the sequence of moods" on pages 67-68 in the Hansen & Quinn textbook, along with the subsequent sections about purpose clauses (68-70), lay this material out as well.