ἀρχὴ παιδεύσεως ἡ τῶν ὀνομάτων ἐπίσκεψις principium eruditionis vocabulorum consideratio est Epictetus I certainly spent a lot of time on Comenius the preceding decade, extolling his usefulness for Latin and Greek vocabulary acquisition and making YouTube videos to that end. I mean a lot of time — my wife got to calling it Comania! Here …
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[January 2021. I am on iOS 14.4, and when I returned to this app after some while, I found the Gazeteer/Search function was no longer working. The good folks at Princeton University Press advised me to delete the app and reinstall it, and that fixed the problem.] In the 2014 winter/spring term just ended, I …
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This previous fall (2013) I took a seminar in Homer’s Odyssey. While they are still fresh in my mind, I’ll review some resources here for studying Homeric Greek. Homer first? First there is the question, for those beginning ancient Greek, whether or not to start with Homer. My answer is, if Homer is what you …
I am grateful in these times to have a job. But in whatever spare time I’ve had the last two years, I’ve done my best to resurrect my Latin and Greek, strictly on my own. Drawing on my experience, I have been using this blog to pass on some hopefully helpful information to other aspiring …
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[January 2021. Here are a few other important updates: For learning classical Greek, a lot of people are using Donald Mastronarde’s Introduction to Attic Greek, in its second edition (2013) (see here for additional resources). I have not seen it, but I know Mastronarde to be very thorough and meticulous. Mastronarde is the creator of …
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In college too many decades ago, I was a classics and ancient history PhD candidate. I did not stay in the field and did not keep up with the languages. But a little more than a year ago, beginning to plan for retirement, I decided to resurrect my Greek and Latin. I have been pretty …
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