Reddit reviews Learn to Read Greek: Part 1, Textbook and Workbook Set
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Hansen and Quinn is a fine book. An alternative, especially for self-study (H&Q was originally designed for intensive courses at summer schools), might be Russell and Keller’s Learn to Read Greek. There’s a review of it here.
I'm leaning toward this one. Check out we website "textkit" for lots of good resources for learning Greek (many of them free).
Keller and Russel have textbooks that can give you a good foundation. I think they are usually used in a classroom context but the texts give enough information to understand the material thoroughly and the workbook that comes with it is nearly exhaustive in terms of ensuring you know the material that is covered in the texts.
The vocabulary they teach is pretty limited. but you can find good decks of flash cards or vocab lists to compliment the books quite easily.
Learn to Read Greek: Part 1, Textbook and Workbook Set https://www.amazon.com/dp/0300167717/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_.mUDDb4D4BZR2
Yeah, that makes sense – no rush, really, you're already ahead of the curve and Latin.
As for Greek books, you've got a few options. A lot of schools use Athenaze (pronounced Ah-then-az-deh because Ancient Greek) – it's... okay, I suppose? I used it in intro, but I don't love the format; they introduce concepts kind of piecemeal. However, it's a nice level of not too intimidating, and it's fairly standard in parts of the field.
Other options would be things like Introduction to Attic Greek, which is supposed to be really rigorous but a bit dense and inaccessible; Learn to Read Greek, which is more to the exercises/direct help side of things, or more specialized books like Learning Greek with Plato or Beginning Greek with Homer if you know you want to start out with Pure Attic Greek or Homeric Greek respectively. There are also some stellar online resources.
One thing I'd also recommend is reading English translations of ancient Greek texts which focus on trying to preserve the Greek language foundations – Richmond Lattimore's Iliad translation is known for this, and you can also find really good close-translations for a lot of Greek lyric poetry.