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This 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.
FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos
22 hours, 16 minutes
Units & Quizzes
90
Unlimited Lifetime access
Access on mobile app
Certificate of Completion
The course approaches the language methodically, starting with the alphabet and effective ways to memorise it, before building up to complete Greek words and sentences. Along the way, you will see numerous real examples of Greek as written on objects from the ancient world.
If you're wondering why study an ancient language, here are four reasons:
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- Read the letters of the ancient Greek alphabet
- Recall a small set of ancient Greek words and their meanings in English
- Read and understand simple sentences in ancient Greek
- Understand some of the historical and geographical context of ancient Greek
- Feel more confident about embarking on independent study of ancient Greek.
Course Currilcum
- Introduction 00:15:00
- Learning outcomes 00:07:00
- Historical overview 00:30:00
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- Introduction 00:15:00
- First steps 00:10:00
- More letters 00:15:00
- Unfamiliar letters 00:10:00
- ‘False friends’ 00:10:00
- Places and people 00:02:00
- Transliteration 00:15:00
- Learning the letters 00:10:00
- Alphabetical order 00:10:00
- A Greek inscription 00:15:00
- Summary 00:10:00
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- Introduction 00:15:00
- The sounds of Greek 00:20:00
- Breathings 00:15:00
- Refinements 00:15:00
- Accents 00:15:00
- Stress 00:10:00
- Diphthongs 00:15:00
- Practice 00:07:00
- Reconstructing pronunciation 00:20:00
- Listening to Homer 00:15:00
- Summary 00:10:00
- Introduction 00:15:00
- Forming the letters 00:15:00
- First words 00:15:00
- Practice 00:15:00
- Upper and lower case 00:20:00
- Listening 00:15:00
- Introduction 00:10:00
- Greek and English 00:30:00
- Suffixes 00:20:00
- Prefixes 00:15:00
- Eponyms 00:15:00
- Vocabulary 00:15:00
- The definite article 00:15:00
- Counting 00:10:00
- Plato’s Timaeus 00:20:00
- Summary 00:10:00
- The direction of Greek writing 00:15:00
- A Greek vase 00:20:00
- The Gortyn code 00:20:00
- Summary 00:10:00
- Local scripts 00:10:00
- Athens 00:15:00
- Crete 00:20:00
- Summary 00:10:00
- Introduction 00:10:00
- Alexander’s dedication 00:25:00
