Learning Ancient Greek – for non-Greek speakers Absolute Beginners

Learning Ancient Greek – for non-Greek speakers

Ancient Greek, the language of Aeschylus, Aesop, Alexander the Great, Archimedes, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Euclid, Euripides, Hippocrates, Homer, Pericles, Plato, Ptolemy, Sophocles, Thales, Thucydides, Xenophon, the language of the New Testament and the Holy Fathers, is foundational. Even in the 21st century, we continue to think about heroism, mythology, tragedy, comedy, satire, history, the novel, destiny, virtue, politics, art, science, and philosophy largely because of what people said and wrote in this subtle language. The influence of the ancient Greeks is still around us and within us. Learning Greek is excellent training for such diverse fields as literature and linguistics, theology, philosophy, political science, and law.

The Evgenios Voulgaris Academy of the St. Maxim the Greek Institute (running under the blessing of the Holy Monastery of Vatopedi, Mount Athos) will be offering four graded webinar courses in Ancient Greek in the academic year 2022-23.

Where necessary, a placement test will be given to participants before admitting them to their appropriate level.

Each class will last two hours and will meet twice weekly (Mon. & Thurs.) for a total of 36 hours roughly over a four-month period (Oct.-Jan.).

A certificate of attendance will be given to students upon course completion.

If English is not the mother language of the webinar student, then a TOEFEL, or B2 First, (formerly known as Cambridge English: First (FCE), Cambridge English Qualification, or equivalent level of English Language knowledge is necessary.

Textbook

We shall be using Balme, Lawall, and Morwood’s highly successful and easy-to-follow Athenaze, An introduction to ancient Greek, Book I (3rd edn revised, Oxford University Press, 2016).

To order the textbook direct from Oxford University Press, see the link https://global.oup.com/academic/?lang=en&cc=gb

Then click ‘Arts & Humanities’ > ‘Classical Studies’, and in the upper right-hand corner of the ‘Classical Studies’ page, enter the keyword ‘Athenaze’.

The two books required for Absolute Beginners Greek are:

1) Athenaze, Book I

An Introduction to Ancient Greek

Revised Third Edition

£57.99

Maurice Balme, Gilbert Lawall, James Morwood

9780190607661

Paperback

2016 

2) Athenaze, Workbook I

An Introduction to Ancient Greek

Revised Third Edition

£21.99

Maurice Balme, Gilbert Lawall, James Morwood

9780190607685

Paperback

2016