Department of Classical Studies

Ancient Greek Language Page

Cuneiform tablets.

JCL handout, p. 2

Click here to visit a page with links to several Images of Ancient Greek (and other scripts).

Vase with Greek alphabet
National Archaeological Museum of Athens

Evolution of Latin Characters (animated page)

Elementary Ancient Greek:

• History of the Greek Alphabet
• Greek Alphabet
• More on Greek Writing from Ancient Scripts.com
• English Principle Parts
• English Articles - a good discussion of "a / an" and "the" from Purdue
• An Adventure with a Lion - a great way to review Greek Prepositions
• GRK 201 (Greek for Reading text)
  • Lesson 1 Vocabulary (with pronounciation)
  • Lesson 2 Vocabulary (with pronounciation)
  • Kernel Chart A (pdf format)
  • Kernel Chart B (pdf format)
  • Kernel Chart C (pdf format)
    
    
• GRK 202 (Greek for Reading text)
  • Verb Morphology Handout
  • Lesson 13 Verb Chart and notes
  • Quick Review of Verbs Handout
  • Synopsis Sheet
  • Speech Act Summary
    
    
• GRK 204
  • Alcestis Page

Cambridge School Classics Project

Here are some online morphology drills created by the Eton Classics Department:

• • Adjective drills
  • Noun drills
  • Verb drills

Here are 2 words lists also put together by Eton (in pdf):

• • OCR GCSE Word List    (12 pages of common vocabulary for the General Certificate of Secondary Education)
  • OCR AS Word List     (26 pages of common vocabulary for A Levels)

Other Resources:

• • Perseus Project
    
    
  • Greek Grammar by Herbert Weir Smyth (on the Perseus site)
    
    
  • An Overview of Greek Syntax by Jeff Rydberg-Cox, with examples & links to Smyth's Greek Grammar (on the Perseus site)
    
    
  • A Greek-English Dictionary - by Liddell, Scott, Jones (on the Perseus site)
    
    
  • Greek New Testament - Catalogue of the United Bible Societies