About a year or so ago, I added Klaas Bentein’s paper from the first issue of 2017 of the Journal of Greek Linguistics to the bibliography at Greek-Language.com (and GreekLinguistics.com). The article treats forms of complementation for verbs in the post-classical and early Byzantine
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For some time now the automated exercises for the first two lessons of the online grammar have been inoperative. I designed new ones today to solve that problem. Lesson 1 Exercise 1.1 Exercise 1.2 Lesson 2 Exercise 2.1 Enjoy. SaveSave
The Gospels and Acts from the New Testament form a small part of what will be covered by the forthcoming intermediate lexicon from Cambridge, projected to become available for purchase next year. The following video (just under 10 minutes in length) gives
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I’m enjoying the 67° weather (19.4° C) in Miraflores, investigating the future middle and passive in Ancient Greek. My goal is to read every occurrence of the future non-active forms in the Greek New Testament before returning to the US in a
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This evening a dear friend gave me this Roman coin from 410, the year the Visigoths sacked Rome. Thank you, Allen! While this clearly has nothing to do with Greek, I’m posting it here as a personal note to express my utmost
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I have updated the Epigraphy Page at Greek-Language.com and GreekLinguistics.com, adding a link to The Sara B. Aleshire Center for the Study of Greek Epigraphy at the University of California, Birkeley and updating information on several other organizations. Thank you to astute
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Once again this November, Jonathan Robie and I will present an update on the work we are doing to create free materials for teaching Hellenistic Greek as a living language. I look forward to seeing many of you at the Colorado Convention
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I look forward to hearing Mike Aubrey’s SBL paper, “Compounding and Cognitive Processes in Word Formation with ὑδροποτέω and its relatives.” It is often the case that compound words mean something more than or other than the combined meanings of the two
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Seumas Macdonald has posted a great discussion of a problem facing many who are using communicative methods to teach Ancient Greek in institutions that require students to know the traditional metalanguage for talking about Greek rather than simply speaking Greek. I highly recommend
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