Learn Ancient Greek
Introduction
The resources below are by no means comprehensive, but are a very good start indeed for anyone wanting to learn Ancient Greek. For Ancient Greek queries, you can use the fora.
A typical inhibition is the different alphabet, but this should not be an issue as one can master it in one lesson. After all, the Greek letters are fewer than the Latin ones and most of them are the same.
Moreover, Greek is much easier to read than English, or French for that matter, since it is read as it is spelled.
Ancient Greek Grammars and Textkbooks
PDF books
- The First Year of Greek, James T. Allen
- Greek Grammar, William W. Goodwin
- First Greek Book, John Williams White
- A Brief Introduction to New Testament Greek, Samuel G. Green
- Grammar of New Testament Greek, Friedrich Blass
- Greek, an Intensive Course, Hardy Hansen and Gerald M. Quinn
- Greek Prose Composition, North and Hillard
- Greek Grammar, Herbert Weir Smyth
- A First Greek Course, Sir William Smith
- First Greek Grammar Syntax, W. Gunion Rutherford
- First Greek Grammar Accidence, W. Gunion Rutherford
- Homeric Greek – A Book For Beginners, Clyde Pharr
- A Greek grammar for schools and colleges, Herbert Weir Smyth
- An Introduction to Ancient Greek: A Literary Approach, C.A.E. Luschnig
- Syntax of Classical Greek, Basil L. Gildersleeve html on Perseus
Web sites
- Ancient Greek for Everyone, Essential Morphology and Syntax for Beginning Greek, Wilfred E. Major and Michael Laughy
- A school grammar of Attic Greek, Thomas Dwight Goodell (pdf version)
- A Digital Tutorial for Ancient Greek based on John William White's First Greek Book
- Wiktionary:About Ancient Greek
- Wikipedia Ancient Greek
- Ancient Greek Lessons in Ukrainian
Material in Modern Greek
Dictionaries
Meta-Dictionaries on the Web
These are portals which provide search results from multiple sources.
- LSJ.gr (containing English, French, Spanish, Russian, Modern Greek translations as well as Woodhouse's English to Ancient Greek dictionary in a wiki format with full, diacritics-insensitive text search)
- Logeion University of Chicago multiple dictionary lookup tool
- Lexilogos Dictionaries Search forms for various dictionaries from a single page and other resources.
PDF Dictionaries
- An English-Greek Lexicon - C. D. Yonge (free pdf download)
- A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect, R.J. Cunliffe (free pdf download)
- Illustrated Dictionary to Xenophon’s Anabasis, John Williams White
Print Dictionaries (not free)
- The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek, Franco Montanari, £61.21. This is by far the most authoritative and contemporary dictionary of Ancient Greek with example phrases translated. It brings together 140,000 headwords taken from the literature, papyri, inscriptions and other sources of the archaic period up to the 6th Century CE, and occasionally beyond. Download a 28 page pdf preview
- Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Robert Beekes, £88 pounds (paperback version). Beekes takes full account of Mycenaean Greek, the best and most updated etymological dictionary of Ancient Greek.