This free course, Getting started on ancient Greek, offers a taster of the ancient Greek world through the study of one of its most distinctive and enduring features: its language.The course ...
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- Historical overview
- Acknowledgements
- Session1Session 1: The alphabet
- Introduction
- 1 First steps
- 2 More letters
- 3 Unfamiliar letters
- 4 ‘False friends’
- 5 Places and people
- 6 Transliteration
- 7 Learning the letters
- 8 Alphabetical order
- 9 Practise your learning
- 10 A Greek inscription
- 11 Summary
- Acknowledgements
- Session2Session 2: Sounds
- Introduction
- 1 The sounds of Greek
- 2 Breathings
- 3 Refinements
- 4 Accents
- 5 Stress
- 6 Diphthongs
- 7 Practice
- 8 Reconstructing pronunciation
- 9 Listening to Homer
- 10 Summary
- Acknowledgements
- Session3Session 3: Writing
- Introduction
- 1 Forming the letters
- 2 First words
- 3 Practice
- 4 Upper and lower case
- 5 Listening
- 6 Ancient writing
- 6.1 Capital letters
- 6.2 Lower case
- 6.3 Word division
- 7 Summary
- Acknowledgements
- Session4Session 4: Words
- Introduction
- 1 Greek and English
- 2 Suffixes
- 3 Prefixes
- 4 Eponyms
- 5 Vocabulary
- 6 The definite article
- 7 Counting
- 8 Plato's Timaeus
- 9 Summary
- Acknowledgements
- Session5Session 5: Word endings
- Introduction
- 1 English noun endings
- 2 A Greek example
- 3 The genitive case
- 4 Case endings
- 5 Patronymics
- 6 The genealogy of Leonidas
- 7 The direction of Greek writing
- 7.1 A Greek vase
- 7.2 The Gortyn code
- 8 Summary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Session6Session 6: Subjects and objects
- Introduction
- 1 Subjects and objects
- 2 Sentence patterns
- 3 Noun endings in English
- 4 Nominative and accusative
- 5 Declensions
- 6 Using case endings
- 7 Forms of the article
- 8 Alexander's dedication
- 9 Local scripts
- 9.1 Athens
- 9.2 Crete
- 10 Summary
- Acknowledgements
- Session7Session 7: Subjects and complements
- Introduction
- 1 Subject and object: recap
- 2 Subject and complement
- 3 εἰμί, I am
- 4 Boundary stones
- 5 καλός inscriptions
- 6 Beatitudes
- 7 The standardisation of the alphabet
- 8 Summary
- Acknowledgements
- Session8Session 8: Reading Greek
- Introduction
- 1 Alexander’s dedication
- 2 Reading skills
- 2.1 The alphabet
- 2.2 Sounds
- 2.3 Word shape
- 2.4 Syntax
- 2.5 Meaning
- 2.6 Context
- 2.7 Putting it all together
- 3 Closing thoughts
- Acknowledgements
