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- Babrius: Fables from Aesop
(Grading and grammatical requirements per Cornell College)- Level 1 - Easiest
Grammar required:
Nouns: all cases, first declension, second declension, third declension, masc & fem, neuter
Verbs: present tense, active and middle; present imperatives
Pronouns: personal pronouns, interrogatives
- Level 1 - Easiest
- Apollodorus: Myths from Library and Epitome
(Grading and grammatical requirements per Cornell College)- Level 2 - Pretty Easy
Grammar required:
Verbs: present, imperfect, and aorist tenses; present and aorist participles
Pronouns: relative pronoun
- Level 3 - Not Difficult
Grammar required:
Verbs: future tense, mi-verbs, verbs with irregular 2nd aorists (e.g. baino, gignosko, histemi)
Adjectives: comparison of adjectives
Participles: genitive absolute
- Level 4 - Very Do-able
- Demeter searches for her daughter Persephone
- Demeter gives Triptolemos the gift of wheat
- Persephone eats the pomegranate
Grammar required:
Verbs: subjunctive mood; future and aorist passive
Indirect Statement
- Level 2 - Pretty Easy
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