Greek

  • Not really sure if I (personally) would call these pretentious, but your mileage may vary (insert smiley here): 9 extremely pretentious Latin and Greek plurals (The Week)

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  • Over at the Dickinson College Commentaries site (which has become a goldmine of good stuff of late) Christopher Francese has put up a modified version of the paper he presented at the recent APA event: Greek Core Vocabulary: A Sight Reading Approach

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  • Snake Goddess is Demeter?

    More from the AIA shindig (and Stephanie Pappas, who clearly is making a name for herself in terms of coverage of archaeology of late): A mysterious “snake goddess” painted on terracotta and discovered in Athens may actually be Demeter, the Greek goddess of the harvest. Once linked to the worship of the dead, the goddess…

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  • The Future of Ancient Greek

    Some noggin fodder stemming from  Wilfrid Major’s recent Classical Outlook article at Dickinson College Commentaries: The Future of Ancient Greek

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  • Dyslexia and Ancient Greek

    Tip o’ the pileus to Graham Shipley, who mentioned this study on the Classicists list … here’s the abstract of an article by Kate Chanock: This paper recounts the process by which a severely reading-disabled adult student taught himself to read and write Ancient Greek, and in so doing, improved his ability to read and…

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