Learn Ancient Greek: 1_Introduction to learning Ancient Greek

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8 жыл бұрын

Leonard Muellner (Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies at Brandeis University) and Belisi Gillespie present all the content covered in two semesters of a college-level Introduction to Ancient Greek course.
Professor Muellner tries to help us wrap our minds around what learning Ancient Greek is like for the modern student. Some of the topics under discussion include: differences between learning a language through writing versus speaking, the limited types of texts that we have, and what grammatical concepts we might encounter along the way. This video does not correspond with any particular lessons in the Hansen & Quinn textbook, but you might want to begin to digest the information in their Introductory chapter, particularly pages 1-6 (up until Section 10) which discusses the alphabet, basic pronunciation, and breathing marks. Happy learning!

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@Simrealism 9 күн бұрын

What an amazing resource. I'm going into Koine Greek II in senminary and this was just the "bam bam bam" through 1st year Ancient Greek to get me up to speed. Thank you Professor Muellner and Belisi Gillespie for your time and effort.

@Maerowyn 7 жыл бұрын

Very glad I took Latin long ago. Much of what he's saying is returning to me and makes sense. My goal is to read the Iliad in Ancient Greek. I hope this will help!

@MrRubberchicken21 4 жыл бұрын

Ms Bird have you made progress?

@dalostgurl8615 3 жыл бұрын

@@MrRubberchicken21 I really want to know the answer too!

@julietrutherford1778 3 жыл бұрын

That's my goal too!!

@elijahboyak5172 3 жыл бұрын

@@MrRubberchicken21 question now is have you? haha

@MrRubberchicken21 3 жыл бұрын

@@elijahboyak5172 I keep coming back to this series, I'm making some progress, then I abandon the skill and and regress, but I keep trying it.

@jessicaramer6630 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for making this course public.

@schifoso5591 2 жыл бұрын

I just want to thank you for having such extensive information in one place. I've been trying to learn ancient Greek for around a month on and off, the reason for the on and off being that I could not find any resources that give me the full scope of the information in one concise, all encompassing go, at least until I found this channel. Thanks again.

@shreyassheshadri4143 8 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting these videos. Please post the entire course content. I'm from India and I don't have any facilities for learning western classical languages. These videos will help me a lot.

@TheCenterforHellenicStudies 8 жыл бұрын

+Shreyas Sheshadri Thanks so much for your interest! The rest of the videos are coming!! We just have some editing to do! How is going? Do you feel like you are learning what you need? Is anything unclear?

@shreyassheshadri4143 8 жыл бұрын

+The Center for Hellenic Studies Looking forward for more videos. I have gone through first 4 videos i.e., till first declension. Alongside I'm trying to better my Greek reading skills. It seems some portion of 4th video is missing because in the beginning of 5th video Professor says that he has gone through another form of first declension ending in α (χορα). Can you add those video sections as these paradigms are pretty important. It would be helpful if course notes or references could be provided for each lesson along with some exercises. Again I thank you for making this courseware available to all.

@MaxRohleder 8 жыл бұрын

+Shreyas Sheshadri Yes, please. I second this request. :)

@abhinavchauhan7864 4 жыл бұрын

@@shreyassheshadri4143 ar you still there its been 4 years

@Mrdavid839 4 жыл бұрын

Alexander the Great went to India lol! I mentioned that to a waiter at an Indian restaurant and he was enormously impressed that I knew of this!

@huberttrocks 6 жыл бұрын

I also want to say thank you for this amazing content. I am currently studying Greek and these videos are a big help to my studies!

@danelitchfield7174 4 жыл бұрын

As a theology major with eventual hopes of Biblical Studies, I am extremely excited to be studying this course with the aid of a friend and a textbook this Summer 2020! Sending love from Holy Cross College at Notre Dame, IN!

@mrgaaconnell135 3 жыл бұрын

Thank God for this gift that Professor Muellner and Belisi Gillespie gave the world. I too am hoping to one day read the Iliad in ancient Greek. With their help and two different textbooks (one of which is the Hansen & Quinn book), I think I just might be able to do this.

@russellgeorgewebster 5 жыл бұрын

I've just begun to learn Attic Greek and these videos are priceless! Thank you!

@bresitfox74 Жыл бұрын

Do you know by chance what dialect he teaches? I once copied a table from here( Pluperfect) but some forms differed from what i learned at my school later. I think most were the same, but it'd be nice for me to know what this is here to compare ^^

@GlaneciaXCat 4 жыл бұрын

I took a year (or was it two? I can't remember now) of attic greek at the University of Washington. I should have failed the last term, but my professor was kind lol. I struggled the entire way through. This was in 1998/1999. I didn't have access to videos such as these. KZfaq didn't exist yet. I had a study group with students who learned quicker than I did. I'd like to go back and relearn everything but move through it at a slower pace - because I think that's how I will succeed.

@salvagebar 6 жыл бұрын

Yay! This is just what I needed!

@JuanPerez-qr7hn 5 жыл бұрын

Wow such a great resource. Thank you!

@CarolineLawrence 2 жыл бұрын

Recommended by a fellow student in my CityLit Aristophanes class here in London! Useful even if you already know some Ancient Greek.

@herodotus1601 4 жыл бұрын

glad i found these lessons . I'm from india and we have no way of learning ancient greek or latin . I like Greek culture and mythology so i decided to learn this beautiful language ♥️

@apostolis07 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you from Greece my Indian brother, im also learning ancient Greek, i want to speak exactly as my ancient ancestors did 👌

@Aditya-te7oo 3 жыл бұрын

Herodotus You can learn Ancient Greek by yourself. There are many Ancient Greek learning textbooks, e.g., Introduction to Attic Greek by Donald Mastronarde, Introduction to Ancient Greek: A Literary Approach by C.A.E. Luschnig, Greek: An Intensive Course by Hardy Hansen etc. Currently I'm learning Latin but I also want to learn Ancient Greek, Sanskrit and Old English.

@herodotus1601 3 жыл бұрын

@@Aditya-te7oo wow thank you so much for the suggestions . i hope i get to learn old greek and latin one day . I'll surely keep those books in my mind

@Aditya-te7oo 3 жыл бұрын

@@herodotus1601 He (the professor) is teaching from the book Greek: An Intensive Course, 2nd Revised Edition by Hardy Hansen. You can buy the book if you want (the book is expensive, it's ₹4,000) or you can download the book from the internet.

@crybaby7613 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your love. sending much love to you 💘

@jessicaramer6630 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Professor Muellner and Belisi Gillespie for making your knowledge available to us.

@scothebert6366 3 ай бұрын

Hello My name is $cot. And this is my show. Please do not stop making this show. :)

@oanagrossu1532 5 жыл бұрын

amazing surprise! - if only THE SOUND were a little bit louder!

@Kinetic.44 Ай бұрын

Turn up your volume hahaha

@ArinMin 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this!

@demetra612 5 жыл бұрын

A friendly correction from a native greek speaker. The greek word for father is not πατέρ. It’s πατέρας in contemporary greek and πατήρ in ancient greek.

@worldnotworld Жыл бұрын

He said "πατήρ."

@Sobreira4 4 жыл бұрын

So cute, you both. So interesting people to have a conversation with.

@chrisd5874 5 жыл бұрын

Nice to see you doing good bilisi representing RHS

@johncroall9764 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! Professor Mueller and I went to the same high school - Roxbury Latin. He was class of 61, me class of 75. Hi!

@peterstreitenberger4031 8 жыл бұрын

Thank you for uploading! I could watch 3-4 lessons. In Germany this course would take 2 semesters with 2 hours a week, of course more detailed. Unfortunately advanced courses are rare, so would it be possible to provide some more, as there are important features in classical Greek only available in advanced level courses, e.g. Hyperbaton, word order variations and so forth?

@TheCenterforHellenicStudies 8 жыл бұрын

Hi Peter, thanks for your note! Here in the US the entire textbook would take 2 semesters as well, with about 3 hour of class time per week. I'll see what we can do about an advanced series. Thanks for the suggestion!! Best, Claudia

@peterstreitenberger4031 8 жыл бұрын

In the new volumes of the "Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics" there are plenty of great articles bringing good ideas for further courses. Just as a suggestion. I personally came to the really interesting features of Ancient Greek after about 4 years of classes....I will be online further on, God willing! Peter, Germany

@Andathil117 3 жыл бұрын

The idea of diminishing the value of speaking Latin and ancient Greek here is very sad and negligent of research on the learning and acquisition of languages.

@user-hy1ug5mp3p 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks A LOT, i'm from China and we don't have much resources in Ancient Greek. By taking this course, i hope i could read more books in philosophy. I wanna ask if there's any materials or textbooks that is needed in this course, much appreciated!!!

@lmuellner1269 4 жыл бұрын

You're so welcome. These videos are structured according to one of the many textbooks available for beginning Ancient Greek, H. H. Hansen and G. Quinn, ῟Greek: An Intensive Course" published by Fordham University Press (ISBN-13: 978-0823216635). Having it at hand to read and refer to will certainly make the videos more helpful.

@pirueta444 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@mindtoeye3314 7 жыл бұрын

As I understand it Ancient Greek is subdivided into many dialects and even sub languages (Hellenistic, Attic, etc) My understanding is also that depending on which variety you learn you can either read texts like the original Homer or Plato or you can not. So before I take the plunge and dive into learning 'Ancient' Greek, which version will be taught here and which texts from which period(s) would I be able to read?

@lukemarshall8977 Жыл бұрын

did you ever get an answer as to which dialect they cover?

@SpareAccount-jc8kb Ай бұрын

To clarify for anyone reading now: this course teaches Attic Greek, the dialect of classical Athens. Students traditionally start with Attic. While I am still studying Attic, I have heard it is quite easy to read Koine (the dialect used by all Greeks after Alexander’s conquests) if one knows Attic. Those two dialects are used in most classical texts.

@ltcommanderrolaren9439 6 жыл бұрын

Hello, (I'm not sure if I've already asked this question on another one of your videos or not, I hope I haven't) I'm a classical archaeology student starting a 10-week ancient greek 3 semester intensive this summer, so I'm trying to learn as much ancient greek as I can before then to give myself a leg up on the course and these videos are super helpful. Do you have a workbook/text book you recommend to accompany this course?

@TheCenterforHellenicStudies 6 жыл бұрын

Good to know you are finding the videos helpful! This series of videos refers to the book "Greek: An Intensive Course" by Hardy Hansen & Gerald M. Quinn (ISBN 0823216632, ISBN-13 9789823216635).

@thomazmaf 6 жыл бұрын

Thank You :D

@L-mm1rr 5 ай бұрын

What edition of the textbook does this follow? Thank you very much!

@randomdude7384 6 ай бұрын

Time to learn some Ancient Greek.

@duncanmckeown1292 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting...but more volume is required! Project!

@priyanksabhaya8621 3 жыл бұрын

Can I learn medicine if I take this lesson as I want to study medicine in Greek

@viktortsealov5903 Жыл бұрын

I love you, people!

@MrGoodbook 4 жыл бұрын

Perhaps this video has changed. Nothing is presented. Half the screen is just a blank board. The other half is just a cursory discussion.

@dengbeibei7838 3 жыл бұрын

Please can you tell me the name of the textbook??

@peterhind 5 жыл бұрын

Does anybody know which edition of Hanson & Quinn to get for this course

@TheCenterforHellenicStudies 5 жыл бұрын

It's the 2nd revised edition: ISBN-10 0823216632, ISBN-13 9789823216635.

@peterhind 5 жыл бұрын

thankyou

@anyaalekseev1406 5 жыл бұрын

Literally STAN leonard and belisi.... this helped so much i love u guys.....

@hasannoemat4072 Жыл бұрын

Could you help me in translating ancient greek into English ? actually I have photos of ancient greek writing.

@Caramuel Жыл бұрын

χιλιόπαλαι ἤδη τοῦ μαθήσεως τῆς γλώττης ἐκείνης ἦρχον καὶ ματᾶν ὁ πόνος μου.

@jerniganinc1085 Жыл бұрын

Still waiting to hear greek

@wrmacdonald9383 10 ай бұрын

Never since the birth of the Met have two voices been so horribly married - very Tistan und Kleopateras

@jovialjosh5262 6 жыл бұрын

Does the Hansen & Quinn textbook teach Modern Greek or Ancient Greek?

@TheCenterforHellenicStudies 6 жыл бұрын

Ancient (Attic) Greek.

@jovialjosh5262 6 жыл бұрын

The Center for Hellenic Studies Thank you so much!

@davlonjohnson4815 4 жыл бұрын

Hi can you tell me what would be meant by the modern translation of the word νηφάλιος - Thanks

@elia-eo3bf 4 жыл бұрын

sober

@derekmuellner5222 Жыл бұрын

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