Module 4: indirect speech
Overview of module 4
Practice, reading and composition are based on Lysias 1, sections 19-20: Euphiletos confronts the enslaved woman with his discovery that she has been cooperating with Eratosthenes.
Language
Module 4 introduces these features of Greek:
- indirect speech refers to speech that reports what another speaker says. Greek uses three different constructions to express indirect speech:
- after a verb indicating speaking or thinking, Greek can use a new form, the infinitive, with its subject in the accusative case
- after a verb indicating perception or knowing, Greek can use a participle
- Greek can introduce a subordinate clause with the conjunction ὡς or ὅτι. When the main verb is in a past tense (aorist or imperfect), the verb of the subordinate clause can appear in a new mood, the optative
Practice, Reading, and Composition
Reading selection based on Lysias 1.19–20.