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Greek Language - LoveToKnow 1911 Greek is one of the eight main branches into which the Indo-European languages are divided. In Attic Greek these contractions were represented by 0 and E respectively till the official adoption of the Ionic alphabet at Athens in 403 B.C. So also were the lengthened syllables which represent in their length the loss of an earlier consonant, as gpecva. It is hardly necessary to say that these changes, whether of the or of modern Greek, did not of necessity impair the powers of the language as an organ of expression; if elaborate inflection were a necessity for the highest literary merit, then we must prefer C ae dmon to Milton and Cynewulf to Shakespeare. www.1911encyclopedia.org /Greek_Language   (8370 words)

Greek Ancient Greek was spoken in Greece, on Crete and Cyprus, in parts of the eastern Mediterranean and western and northern Anatolia, on Sicily and in southern Italy, on the northern Black Sea coast, and sporadically along the African coast and the French Riviera. Homeric Greek was a traditional literary language, comprising elements from several dialects, but was never the spoken language of any one people. The principal changes that distinguish modern Greek are superseding of pitch-accent by stress; further iotacism of vowels; transforming the voiced plosives b and d to the voiced fricatives v and dh; loss of modal particles; and less variable word order because of replacement of pitch-accent by stress. thor.prohosting.com /~linguist/greek.htm   (2420 words)

Greek mythology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) The generation the gods most current (and relevant) to Greek religion are described in epic poems as appeared in person to the Greeks during "age of heroes " understood to be reference to the archaic dark age (ca. To the Greeks mythology was literally a of their history; few ever doubted that was truth behind the account of the Trojan War in the Iliad and Odyssey. Among Christians hold this belief Greek mythology is understood be a subset of the subject of demonology. www.freeglossary.com /Greek_mythology   (2945 words)

Greek mythology The generation of the gods most current (and relevant) to ancient Greek religion are described in epic poems as having appeared in person to the Greeks during the "age of heroes," understood to be a reference to the archaic dark age (ca. To the Greeks, mythology was literally a part of their history; few ever doubted that there was truth behind the account of the Trojan War in the Iliad and Odyssey. Greek mythology continues to be an important cultural reference long after the Greek religion with which it was entwined ceased to be practiced. www.knowledgefun.com /book/g/gr/greek_mythology_1.html   (2694 words)

Greek 2 Independent Study in Homer The "Lesson Method" of teaching Greek, with each lessons covering a small chunk of grammar with "sentences" to translate, evolved around l890 when Greek as well as Latin was a requirement for all students in college, whatever their interests or abilities. Greek has vowels which can be long or short in duration, these are properties of individual words and syllables and are as much a part of the Greek language as the musical pitches are a part of Mandarin Chinese. The matter of the famous divisionist "Homeric Problem" is largely ignored nowadays except for a reference, which I can summarize briefly, as part of the history of Homeric criticism in the modern world. community.middlebury.edu /~harris/homeric.html   (4274 words)

Greek mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The earliest Greek thought about poetry considered the theogony, or song about the birth of the gods, to be the prototypical poetic genre—the prototypical muthos—and imputed almost magical powers to it. Homeric Hymns are the oldest source of this kind of story. In Greek mythology, generally a sign of divinity or partial divinity was extreme beauty (usually accompanied by talent or ingenuity). www.photius.com /religion/greek_gods.html   (2666 words)

Greek mythology - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema Greek mythology comprises the collected legends of Greek gods and goddesses and ancient heroes and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. A Greek deity's epithet may reflect a particular aspect of that god's role, as Apollo Musagetes is "Apollo, [as] leader of the Muses." Alternatively the epithet may identify a particular and localized aspect of the god, sometimes already ancient during the classical epoch of Greece. Historical linguistics, on the one hand, shows that certain parts of the Greek pantheon were inherited from Indo-European society along with the roots of the Greek language. www.egnu.org /thelema/index.php/Greek_mythology   (2904 words)

Greek Mythology - WiccanWeb.ca Greek mythology was also reflected in artifacts, some of them works of art, notably the repertory of vase-painters. The span of stories and characters in Greek mythology ranges from the atrocities of the early gods to the brutal wars of Troy and Thebes, from the youthful pranks of Hermes to the heartfelt grief of Demeter for Persephone, all depicted in minute detail in a bewildering range of media. The descendents of Heracles, known as the Heraklids, were the mythical ancestors of the Dorian Greek kings. www.wiccanweb.ca /wiki/index.php/Greek_Mythology   (3649 words)

Online Resources on Learning Greek EAD on-line or save to your computer Elpenor's Greek lessons, where some of the main reasons of learning Greek are at work. Homer and the study of Greek, by Clyde Pharr - "Homer is interesting not only to older students, but is particularly adapted to the youngest who now take Greek, as the earliest experiments, made with boys from nine to fourteen years of age, have amply demonstrated". www.ellopos.net /elpenor/greek-texts/greek-resources-speaking.asp   (705 words)

Classical Greek in the Schools Greek 1: First semester (and especially first quarter) is a relatively fast-paced introduction to basic forms, vocabulary, and syntax of Homeric Greek, aimed at getting into the actual text of the Iliad as soon as possible (around mid-November). Greek I is taught from your textbook as a part of the Latin II course. Greek II is a separate course in Greek for students wishing to continue; the text is Athenaze I and II, which are completed in grade 11; much cultural material is taught; much translation work as well, but almost exclusively Greek to English. www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~glawall/greeksc4.html   (6617 words)

Homeric Greek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Homeric Greek is the form of Ancient Greek that was used by Homer in the Iliad and Odyssey. It later served as the basis of Epic Greek, the language of epic poetry, typically in dactylic hexameter, of poets such as Hesiod. Compositions in Epic Greek may date from as late as the 3rd century AD, though its decline was inevitable with the rise of Koine Greek. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Homeric_Greek   (234 words)

Center for Hellenic Studies - The Homeric Odyssey & the Cultivation of Justice Homeric poetry links this paradisiacal metaphor with the hero's efforts to win back his or her own "soul" (psyche). In ancient Greek song culture, as exemplified by the Odyssey, the goal of such a heroic quest is imagined as a garden fertilized and even animated by the hero whose body is ultimately buried within its hallowed ground. The cult heroes of the ancient Greeks were believed to be upholders of social justice precisely because their bodies were buried in the local earth of the communities that worshipped them as the direct source of fertility and prosperity. www.chs.harvard.edu /discussion_series.sec/the_homeric_odyssey.ssp   (317 words)

The Intelligent Person's Guide to Greek Homer has a large vocabulary but words must be learned one by one, and that is less of a problem than the intricate structure of the inflectional grammar of Greek. Greek has five vowels, which can be long or short, and while -a- -e- and -o- have different letters for length, the -i- and -u- do not. Homer has additional variants which are not seen in Attic Grammar of the later period, and these constitute a special "Homeric Grammar" for the Homeric variants. community.middlebury.edu /~harris/GreekGrammar.html   (12646 words)

Homeric Questions quiz -- free game "Homer's Greek is linguistically interesting-- a fact not known to most casual readers of the "Iliad" and "Odyssey" in translation. The dialect in which Homer composed his works is known as Homeric Greek. Homeric Greek lacks this part of speech, certainly present by the time of, say, Plato. www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=181336   (426 words)

BGreek: Re: Homeric Greek Question Next in thread: Carl W. Conrad: "Re: Homeric Greek Question" Greek was a colloquialism for "a long period of time." I asking this because if Homer's use of the expression '10 years' www.ibiblio.org /bgreek/test-archives/html4/1996-01/12055.html   (304 words)

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.09.27 This is the first of a two volume edition (the second volume is to appear early in 2006) of the revised reading course in Homeric Greek by Schoder and Horrigan. The present volume is a well-balanced textbook of Homeric Greek that will help the student read and understand the selected passages. The advantages and disadvantages of starting Greek with Homer have been identified by Ford in his review of Beetham's Beginning Greek with Homer (BMCR 1999.04.19). ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-09-27.html   (963 words)

Ancient Greek Studies Note: You will see the Greek characters if you are running Windows XP/2000 or Mac OS X and have the Palatino Linotype font. The most valuable component of this website is the English translation which appears as a "tool tip" whenever you rest the cursor on a word of Greek. Regardless of the historicity of a "Peisistratean Recension" of the text of the Iliad, it is reasonable to assume that the epic was transcribed for the purpose of offically sanctioned recitations by Homeric rhapsodes at the Panathenaea Festival. www.ancientgreekstudies.com   (852 words)

Amazon.ca: A Reading Course in Homeric Greek, Book 1: Books: Raymond V. Schoder,Vincent C. Horrigan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Essays on various aspects of ancient history, Greek culture, art, sculpture, architectu re, democracy, and the dawn of Western Civilization highlight humanistic values and increase literary appreciation. Traditional courses in Greek that begin with the Attic dialect have had to contend with a major obstacle: finding clear and accessible Greek that will convince students that learning the language is worth the effort. But Homer, though he writes in an artificial dialect, is always clear, always engaging, and has the advantage of being the fountain of Greek literature. www.amazon.ca /Reading-Course-Homeric-Greek-Book/dp/1585101753   (1360 words)

Homeric Greek : a book for beginners by Clyde Pharr | LibraryThing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) A Homeric dictionary for use in schools and colleges. Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect by Richard J. Cunliffe Not meant for a first introduction to Greek (this is a different dialect to the Attic greek of Plato, Thucidides, Xenophon, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripedes) but I tried anyway, and bounced. www.librarything.com /card_card.php?book=7761   (273 words)

Greek and Latin Vocabulary Games and Educational Software Teach Your Child a Foreign Language Both Hungry Frog Homeric Greek and Hungry Frog Latin langauge vocabulary games are available for Windows 95/98/00 and Windows NT. The basic vocabulary for a first year course in Homeric greek is covered in this game. Personal dictionaries are automatically saved by player name, and up to 50 different students can have their own personal preferences stored in the game at any one time. www.hungryfrog.com /greek.html   (402 words)

Introduction to Homeric Greek2 This is the second semester of a course in beginning Greek for those with no prior knowledge of the ancient language. In this semester students complete their acquisition of pre-classical Greek grammar and syntax, master foundational Homeric vocabulary and scansion of dactylic hexameter, and are introduced to the conventions of oral epic poetry and its Bronze Age context, through readings from both the Iliad and Odyssey in the original Homeric Greek and in English. Homer, The Iliad in English (translations recommended are by Richmond Lattimore, Albert Cook, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Fagles); The Odyssey in English (recommended translators are: Lattimore, Fitzgerald, Fagles) www.cnr.edu /home/araia/homericgreek2.html   (855 words)

Greek religion: Homeric Religion The Homeric pantheon was a tightly knit family group in charge of natural forces but not equal to the natural forces themselves. Action was crucial and exciting by the very fact of life's brevity, and people were expected to perform by their own particular heroic arete, or virtue. The Olympians were, perhaps, most important in their role as civic deities, and each of the Greek city-states came to consider one or more of the gods as its particular guardian. www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0858491.html   (529 words)

Greek and Latin Vocabulary Games and Educational Software Teach Your Child a Foreign Language Both Hungry Frog Latin and Hungry Frog Homeric Greek are available for Windows 95/98, Windows NT and 2000. Both Latin and Homeric classical greek vocabulary programs are also available in the Jellyfishfun game format. Latin and Homeric ancient greek vocabulary programs are both available in the 49er Gold Rush game format. www.hungryfrog.com /classics.html   (914 words)

Greek & Linguistics Software Page The GRAMCORD Institute is a Washington Non-Profit Corporation that supports and conducts computer-assisted study of biblical languages. The fonts used in both the UBS text and the Nestle-Aland text of the Greek New Testament come from this company, and their products are used around the world. It contains most of the ancient Greek literature from Homer (8th century B.C.) to 600 A.D. plus historiographical, lexicographical and scholiastic texts from the period between 600 and 1453 A.D. The TLG Web Page is designed to present general information and answers to frequently asked questions about the TLG. greek-language.com /software.and.databases   (576 words)

Introduction to Homeric Greek This is a course in beginning Greek for those with no prior knowledge of ancient Greek. On-line Perseus for Greek texts, grammar, dictionary, and images; other Internet sites useful for the study of Greek language and culture are: Greek Grammar on the Web, Ancient Greek Tutorial, Greek, Too! The course is devoted to learning Homeric Greek via The Iliad and completing as much of the elementary text in the fall semester as possible. www.cnr.edu /home/sas/araia/homericgreek.html   (736 words)

rogueclassicism: Learn Homeric Greek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) Not sure how many rc readers are aware of the Latinstudy and Greekstudy lists, in which a group of folks essentially get together via email and work their way through various texts. It's very useful for folks who want to learn Latin or Greek on their own and new groups are forming on a semi regular basis. Greek Activities for the week of May 29, 2005 www.atrium-media.com /rogueclassicism/Posts/00000545.html   (462 words)

homer.html Welcome to the Homer in Performance Web Page. This is a on-going project of the Harvard University Department of the Classics, and is part of the Prose and Poetry Recitation Site, currently maintained by Tom Jenkins. Note: In order to make the site easier to access by modem, many of the audio files require Apple's Quicktime 3.0 technology, which you can download for free here. www.fas.harvard.edu /~classics/poetry_and_prose/homer/homer.html   (90 words)

Yamada Language Center: Greek WWW Guide Textkit - A free online learning resource that provides downloadable Greek and Latin grammars and readers. They also provide an extensive and ever growing collection of classical e-books in English, Greek and Latin. This page is maintained by the Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon. babel.uoregon.edu /yamada/guides/homeric.html   (47 words)

Homeric Greek (101)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) W. Owen and E. Goodspeed, Homeric Vocabularies (Odyssey Bookstore) P. Debnar, Elementary Greek through Homer (from professor) Requirements: you must pass all five requirements to pass the course. www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/pdebnar/GreekL101/syllabus.html   (213 words)

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