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The University of Edinburgh School of History & Classics

GREEK 1A/B and GREEK 1hA/B
GREEK LINKS

Minoan jar with Octopus design

Minoan Octopus Vase 15th Century B.C.E. (WorldArtKiosk)

 

Language Databases

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae:searchable database of all ancient & Byzantine

Greek literature

 

The Perseus Site: searchable database of Greek and Roman materials: texts,

commentaries, materials culture

 

Gateways

Greek Grammar on the Web:Gateway to multiple types of resources for Greek

language learning, ancient and biblical.

 

Humbul Humanities Hub: catalogue of 648 online resources for Classics

 

Vocabulary and Morphology Tools

Berkeley Ancient Greek tutorials: designed to accompany Mastronade's text book; has pronunciation guides, accentuation tutorials, vocabulary drills, morphological drills.

 

Eton College Drills

From the main site click “Eton in Action” in the menu on the left and then “Greek Project”. Here you can take a series of quizzes on vocabulary and morphology based on the word lists for AQA GCSE (294 words), or OCR GCSE (482 words), or Reading Greek Sections 1-8 Vocabulary (592 words) or OCR AS-level (1017 words.

 

Greek Word Formation: Notes on word-building from Marilyn Katz's Greek Class:

 

Pronunciation and Performance

SORGAL Page, Society for the Reading of Greek and Latin Literature, various extracts read with pitched accents

 

Princeton Language Project, Excerpts from Homer, Plato, and Pindar read in three different ways: an Erasmic pronunciation, reconstructed pronunciation, and modern Greek pronunciation.

 

Sound of Ancient Greek, literary extracts read with reconstructed pitch accent.

 

Stanley Lombardo reads extracts from the Iliad.

 

Homer in Performance, reading of selected parts of The Iliad , with notes and explanations by Professor Gregory Nagy.

 

Homeric Singing - An Apporach to the original performance/ ancient Greek music.

 

Greek Archaeology and History

Greek Ministry of Culture: gateway to information about Greek archaeological sites and Museums. See especially the Cultural Map of Hellas

 

Metis - Quicktime Virtual Reality movies of classical sites

 

Overview of Classical Greek History by Thomas Martin (Perseus)

 

The Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents at Oxford. Especially the Online Oxyrhynchus Exhibition

 

Miscellaneous

Classical Encyclopedia (Perseus)

 

Akropolis World News in Ancient Greek

 

Harry Potter in Ancient Greek: this is the home page of Andrew Wilson who translated Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone into Ancient Greek. Here there are notes and vocabulary to accompany the translation and you can also read an extract from the start of Chapter 11.

 

Lexicon of Greek Personal Names:

 

Classical Email Salutations and Closings:

 

 

 

Please let me know if there is a link you think should be added here.

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