Pocket GCSE Greek Etymological Lexicon

Caroline Mackenzie is your mentor, and this is the talisman to help you on your Hero’s Journey to learn that most magical of languages, Ancient Greek! – Caroline Lawrence, best-selling author of The Roman Mysteries, UK
This book will be invaluable for GCSE students learning Greek vocabulary, and a source of pleasure for devotees of sesquipedalian words. – John Taylor, University of Manchester, UK - author of Greek to GCSE
Both a practical vocabulary list for GCSE and ICCG and a fascinating insight into what our language owes to ancient Greek. – Dr Margaret Mountford, President of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, UK
A simply marvellous resource – Greek will never seem forbidding again. – Dr Daisy Dunn, author of The Missing Thread, UK
Caroline Mackenzie’s Pocket GCSE Greek Etymological Lexicon contains more than just a list of English derivations from the Greek: it’s a fascinating glimpse into how etymology can help you remember your Greek, improve your word knowledge, and provides plenty of intriguing material to follow up in class or at home. It’s often the case that such tiny sparks of information can develop a lifelong love of learning about the ancient world and its influence on shaping language today. – Steven Hunt, Associate Teaching Professor in Classics Education, University of Cambridge, UK

Caroline K. Mackenzie is a private tutor in Greek and Latin and an independent scholar, UK. She read Classics at Cambridge and, after a career as a lawyer in London, she taught first as a law lecturer and then as Head of Classics. Her publications include Pocket GCSE Latin Etymological Lexicon (Bloomsbury, 2022) and Culture and Society at Lullingstone Roman Villa (2019).

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