Language Resources

There are a number of genuinely useful resources on the internet for students new to classical languages. Some of these are designed for students of New Testament Greek but they are equally useful to students of ancient philosophy. In particular, note the following:

• Paidagogos: The First Taste of Greek, an introductory guide to the Greek alphabet based around a series of transliteration exercises, designed with New Testament readers in mind, but equally useful for students of ancient philosophy.
• New Testament Gateway, a collection of helpful resources for those learning Greek for the first time.
• Greek Grammar on the Web, an excellent site from the Department of Classics at K. U. Leuven, introducing the study of ancient Greek, with links to fonts, courses, grammars, lexica, and a range of other resources.
• Mathos, an online ancient Greek language course from M. R. Wright at the University of Wales Lampeter. This site may be especially useful for complete beginners. It also includes a helpful word list.
• The Perseus Project (with a UK mirror site based at Oxford), an impressive collection of classical texts where students can find works by Plato and Aristotle in both English and Greek, jump between the two at any point in the text, jump to passages by using Stephanus or Bekker references, and look up Greek words via hyperlinks to an on-line lexicon. The Greek texts are available in transliteration or in Greek (use SGreek Font and visit the Perseus 'Configure Display' page).
• Liddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon, an on-line version of the invaluable lexicon at the Perseus Project. Available in transliteration or in Greek (use SGreek Font and visit the Perseus 'Configure Display' page).
• SGreek Font, a shareware font from Silver Mountain Software. Use this font with the Greek texts at the Perseus Project.
• The Latin Library, a large collection of Latin literature available on-line, including a number of works by Cicero, Seneca, Lucretius, and Augustine.
• Lewis and Short's Latin Dictionary at the Perseus Project.

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