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So, I’ve signed up for “Greek and Latin Mythology” from U. Penn at coursera.org. It should be an interesting diversion in these times of my doing relatively little. A little Homer, Aristarchus, Thucydides, Aristophanes, Vergil, Ovid and the like would be welcome relief. Read all– or almost all– of these in English translation as a late teenager, and some of the Latin authors in the original. The Greek however… well, I never got very far with that in High School. Not saying I will this time, but there’s a niggling thing at the back of my mind saying that any time learning more of the aorist and the optative etc. would not entirely be wasted.
I may get around to posting my “lecture” notes, but in the meantime some links.
Software:
- Kalós – a dictionary and morphological analysis tool. Java. Free as in beer.
- Unicorn – a text editor with built in Latin & Greek dictionaries. Java. Free as in beer.
- Unicode Greek fonts – note Ariscarcoj
- TITUS Cyberbit font – I remember this puppy from setting Devangaari script a half-lifetime ago at Yale.
- Gentium font has support for polytonic Greek
Websites:
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http://www.textkit.com/ General Greek and Latin resources for learning
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http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/grkol-TC-X.html Classical Greek at U. Texas, Austin
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http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/greek/ Classical Greek from the OU.
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http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ancgreek/ UC Berkeley’s Ancient Greek.
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http://www.ancientgreekonline.com/ Decent poke around.