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Ok, your biggest upcoming danger is the summer, unless you plan to take Greek classes then. Assuming two semesters at your school are sufficient to get you at least exposed to all the morphology and much of the syntax, I would strongly recommend you pick something to read over the summer, to keep your Greek in shape and to solidify what you've learned so far.
This blog post has a list of readers: Greek Readers, but you could also probably start with a good school edition of one of the simpler authors (Xenophon, a bit dull but a standard; some of Plato's dialogs aren't too bad). I would avoid the historians for now. Thucydides is tough, and though Herodotus is fairly easy he uses a different dialect, and for now it may be best to focus on the Attic you've been learning in class. This edition of Lucian's True History is pretty good, though I will warn you the first few paragraphs of the text are excruciating. Once you get past that, it's much easier going. Geoffrey Steadman's annotated texts can be had as both books and PDFs. The old Parsons' Tablet of Cebes is also very easy (beware of reprints - some are barely legible). Steadman also has a version of this, though not yet in print.
Thank you so much for the response and encouragement!
I have this: https://www.amazon.com/Lucians-True-Story-Intermediate-Vocabulary/dp/0983222800/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1468784832&sr=8-1&keywords=true+story+lucian
and this:
https://www.amazon.com/Plato-Apology-Greek/dp/0865163480/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1468784855&sr=8-4&keywords=apology+greek
but find them both a little bit too difficult for me right now. Do you think Crito and Lysias are easier than the Apology, or that Steadman is more user-friendly than Helm?
> And just reading that with no dictionary or pen is something to be damn proud of:) Ancient Greek is wonderful.
:) I know, and I am. It's just killing me that I'm practically fluent with parts of the NT (and I'm not religious, so it's not like I've just memorized this stuff) but taking 3.5 minutes for a sentence or two of Attic. I know it's more difficult, but it is a little confidence-shocking. I'll keep working at it, though!