Getting started on ancient Greek
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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Historical overview
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

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