It is not an easy task for one to try, with the help of grammar and images, to breathe life into a language like Ancient Greek, that is, a dead language.

Since we could never have a conversation with Socrates, a passive knowledge of his language suffices. We are content to listen. The conversion of passive knowledge into active knowledge can only make sense as a game.

The educational game (and every game encompasses an educational practice, even if that is nothing other than the practice of learning it) proposed by the creators of this cheerful book aims to teach students to recognize the basic syntactic phenomena of the ancient language in a discourse that they can easily absorb precisely because the situations it describes are familiar to them.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]