Web Resources (external web links)

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Study Aids for Athenaze

• PDF handouts, this site
  • Zeus' Guide to the Participles
  • Verbs with Challenging Principal Parts
• Drills, etc. for Athenaze at the University of Victoria

Language Study Links

• Perseus Greek and Roman Materials
  • Perseus Liddell Scott Jones lexicon
  • Word Study Tool
  • Overview of Greek Syntax by Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox. Good for beginners
  • Greek Grammar, by Herbert Weir Smyth. Good for intermediate and advanced
• Thesaurus linguae graecae
  • Online LSJ (The Online Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek-English Lexicon)
• Woodhouse's English-Greek Dictionary, online edition

  A dictionary for translating from English to Greek, but Greek "hits" should be checked in a Greek-to-English dictionary like Liddel-Scott-Jones

Various

• Perseus. Same as above — this is the site of sites for all things "classical," both Greek and Roman: texts, language aids, art, etc.
• Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World. A vast site: bibliogrpahy, images etc. etc.
• THE GREEKS: Crucible of civilization. Web site for the PBS miniseries. Cool animation; decent cultural background (best viewed on large screen)
• The Spartans, BBC. This program turned out very well indeed - an informative and sophisticated look at the Spartans, one of the most regimented and milirarized societies the world has ever seen. To other Greeks, the Spartans were unusual in terms of their educational system, the relative freedom enjoyed by women there, and their sexual customs
• The Internet Classics Archive. Lots of ancient Greek, Roman, and other texts in translation
• The Ancient City of Athens. Kevin Glowacki and Nancy Klein's virtual tour of the city
• Ancient Greek Music. An archive of all longer (but not very long) surviving fragments of Greek music
• The Ancient Olympic Games Virtual Museum. Find out about the ancient Greek inspiration for the modern Olympic games
• AKWN, the News in Ancient Greek (plus other Hellenic delights)

Links to Links

• For one-stop-shopping, go to Maria Pantelia's Resources for Classicists at the University of California, Irvine
• Also visit the resources page for Tragedy, Greek and Roman, CLAS215

Print Bibliography

Here are some books that can enrich your experience of Greek. Some are suitable for beginners, some better suited to those more experienced in the language. Some are history-culture oriented. All are in the library (click here for the BU Elixir Library Catalogue).

• Abbott, Evelyn and Edward Deering Mansfield. 1977. A Primer of Greek Grammar. Newburyport, Mass.: Focus Publishing. Not in the library yet, but I'm working on it . . .
• The Liddell-Scott Greek-to-English dictionary comes in three forms, of which here are two:
  • The "Big Liddell": Liddell, Henry George, Robert Scott, Henry Stuart Jones, et al. 1996. A Greek-English Lexicon. Clarendon Press: Oxford and New York. MAIN REFERENCE (Non-Circulating): PA445.E5 L65 1996. This is, for the English speaking world, the main source for the meanings and forms of Greek words. A beginner might find find the abridged version more useful:
  • The "Middle Liddell": Liddell, Henry George and Robert Scott. 1889. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, Founded upon the Seventh Edition of Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon. Harper & Brothers: New York. MAIN LIBRARY: PA445.E5 L7. (I'm going to work on having the library get the 1987 reprint)
  • The Liddell-Scott dictionaries, or "LSJ" (as we call them), are actually available online; click here
• Hornblower, Simon and Antony Spawforth. 1996. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. 3 ed. Oxford University Press: Oxford and New York. MAIN REFERENCE (Non-Circulating): DE5 .O9 1996
  • A great resource, useful for finding out about virtually anything pertaining to ancient Greece or Rome