This text-book offers a conscious and gentle method of immersion, convenient for all students of any background. It provides numerous and efficient exercices, and presents various excerpts from Greek authors right from the first steps. It is self-sufficient. It is the first-choice tool for self-taught students, high school or college teachers. It has been a best seller in its category for ever thirty years in its French version. Going safely step by step, students will acquire the essential notions to approach ancien Greek literature, in original texts.