AMERICAN CLASSICAL LEAGUE

2012 in Las Vegas

Fun with the Greek Alphabet!

Saturday June 30 1:00-2:30pm
Session 10C - Room 209
Wilfred Major
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
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This workshop showcases materials which allow you to incorporate the
Greek alphabet in a fun and meaningful way into virtually any class. Simple
addition and subtraction allow students to work out the pronunciation of
any Greek word or name. No knowledge of Greek is required, but you will be
able to enhance your students' appreciation of characters from mythology,
Latin literature, the Bible, Harry Potter, Percy Jackson and more! All the
materials in this workshop are available free online.
The Greek alphabet provides a uniquely fun way to add a new dimension to
almost any class. The alphabet is entirely phonetic, so games with alphabet
algebra make it easy to learn and follow spelling changes in Greek words.
No knowledge of Greek is required, since familiar (and obscure) names from
mythology, Latin literature, the Bible, Harry Potter, Percy Jackson and
elsewhere provide ample practice and open the gateway to many more
possibilities. All the materials in this workshop are available free online.
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The history of writing the alphabet (and why it matters)
SPELL IT LIKE IT SOUNDS!
Vowels
Consonants
The alphabet in order and other stuff
Practice with names
Practice with English derivatives
Alphabet Algebra
What next?
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The history of writing the alphabet (and why it matters)
Why do I see capital letters sometimes but then texts with lower case letters?
Why do texts of Greek look like scribbled chicken scratch?
SPELL IT LIKE IT SOUNDS!
Vowels
Consonants
The alphabet in order and other stuff
Practice with names
Practice with English derivatives
Alphabet Algebra
What next?
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Greek has twenty-four letters.
upper-case:

lower-case:

 the upper-case letters
represent the versions used
in stone-cut inscriptions

law code of Gortyn

5th century BC
(written right to left)
 the upper-case letters
were also used in early
writing on papyrus
see
http://www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk

papyrus of the poet Archilochus alternate number of the beast

P.Oxy. LXIX 4708 P.Oxy. LXVI 4499
 the lower-case letters
represent the
hand-writing from
later manuscripts

page of medieval manuscript of

Euripides Hecuba
 The
Classical Greek
alphabet
for the
printing press

Capitals and cursives

combined
From manuscript to modern printed edition
modern printed editions
began as reproductions
of manuscripts, so they
retain this use of
the lower-case letters

modern printed edition of

Euripides Hecuba
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Printed texts still use lower-case letters
normally, but use upper-case letters for
the first letter of a proper name (person, place,
etc)
the first letter of a direct quotation
But inscriptions and other non-printed Greek
(e.g., on shirts) still tend to use the upper case
letters!
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Alphabet!
Imagine if English were printed in a cursive
script all the time.
Imagine if English were printed in a
cursive script all the time.
This is why printed Greek texts can look like
chicken scratch, but once you know the
alphabet, it is just like reading someones
handwriting.
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The history of writing the alphabet (and why it matters)
SPELL IT LIKE IT SOUNDS!
Vowels
Consonants
The alphabet in order and other stuff
Practice with names
Practice with English derivatives
Alphabet Algebra
What next?
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Some basic principles about the ancient Greek
alphabet:
Greeks in antiquity spelled words the way
they pronounced them.
If they changed the pronunciation of a
word, they changed the spelling to match.
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Consider the verb record (reCORD) and
the noun record (RECord), which are
spelled alike but pronounced differently in
English.
In Greek, such words would be spelled
according to their pronunciations: rikrd
and rkerd
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Imagine these examples in English:
If anyone pronounced going as gonna,
they would spell it gonna.
Homophones like but and butt would
both be spelled but, even though they
have different meanings.
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Therefore, the surest and most straightforward
way to become comfortable reading and
writing Greek is to sound out the words and
match the sounds to the letters.

SPELL IT LIKE IT SOUNDS!

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The history of writing the alphabet (and why it matters)
SPELL IT LIKE IT SOUNDS!
Vowels
Consonants
The alphabet in order and other stuff
Practice with names
Practice with English derivatives
Alphabet Algebra
What next?
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VOWELS Greek has roughly the same five
vowels as English:
ah
eh
ih
o
u
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Short Long

ah aah
eh ay
ih ee
o oh
u h
Like English, Greek has short and long versions of its vowels.
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Speakers of Classical Greek did not like to say
two vowel sounds in a row.
Consequently, if two vowels come together,
they tended to
merge them into one (called a diphthong,
Greek for double sound)
or contract them (covered under Alphabet
Algebra later).
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A vowel + or forms a diphthong.
see following slides
, and contract with each other.
covered under Alphabet Algebra later
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A vowel + forms a diphthong:
+ = eye
+ = aah usually written
+ = ay
+ = ay usually written
+ = oy
+ = oh usually written
+ = wee
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A vowel + forms a diphthong:
+ = ow!

+ = eu

+ = oo
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The history of writing the alphabet (and why it matters)
SPELL IT LIKE IT SOUNDS!
Vowels
Consonants
The alphabet in order and other stuff
Practice with names
Practice with English derivatives
Alphabet Algebra
What next?
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CONSONANTS Greek consonants are built
around just three basic sounds:
Labial Dental Palatal

p t k
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CONSONANTS Add a vocal sound and you get a
new set, called voiced:
Labial Dental Palatal
p t k = unvoiced
b d g = voiced
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CONSONANTS Add the h sound and you get a
new set, called aspirated:
Labial Dental Palatal
p t k = unvoiced
b d g = voiced
ph th kh = aspirated
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The Trouble with Sigma Greek is strange
when it comes to pronouncing and writing
words with the s sound:
The combinations , & never
appear. Instead, replaces them.
, and disappear before a .
The combinations , or never
appear. Instead, replaces them.
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CONSONANTS
Labial Dental Palatal
p t k = unvoiced
b d g = voiced
ph th kh = aspirated
ps s ks = +
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CONSONANTS
Labial Dental Palatal
p t k = unvoiced
b d g = voiced
ph th kh = aspirated
ps s ks = +
m n , , , ng
= nasals
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CONSONANTS
Labial Dental Palatal
p t k = unvoiced
b d g = voiced
ph th kh = aspirated
ps s ks = +
m n , , , ng nasals
l r = liquids
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The leftover consonant is:
(instead of writing )
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The history of writing the alphabet (and why it matters)
SPELL IT LIKE IT SOUNDS!
Vowels
Consonants
The alphabet in order and other stuff
Practice with names
Practice with English derivatives
Alphabet Algebra
What next?
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The alphabet in order and other stuff
A YouTube video shows how to write the letters, at

Learn the Greek Alphabet: 4A Penmanship Counts!: Alpha-Mu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHDdBprw0XQ (part 1)

Learn the Greek Alphabet: 4B. Penmanship Counts: Nu-Omega

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8gm2VFs_co (part 2)

Visit www.dramata.com for:

A power point that diagrams the Greek letters by hand
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The alphabet in order and other stuff
Greek Alphabet Song Rock-n-Roll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKW9-7ZHv_4
Greek Alphabet Rap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vapoNlGio8U
Information on typing ancient (polytonic) Greek on digital
platforms is included at the end of this slide show and at
www.dramata.com
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The alphabet in order and other stuff
Nina Barclay. Eucleides' World: An Exploratory
Introduction to Ancient Greek to Accompany Ecce
Romani. CANE (Classical Association of New England),
2002.
Written to accompany Ecce Romani, but it stands alone
as an introduction to Greek.
Sing the Greek alphabet to
Itsy Bitsy Spider!
Sing the Greek alphabet to
Frre Jacques!
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The alphabet in order and other stuff
Harvey Bluedorn. A Greek Alphabetarion: A Primer for Teaching How to Read, Write & Pronounce
Ancient & Biblical Greek. (2004)
ISBN 978-0974361697
Harvey Bluedorn and Richard LaPierre. A Greek Hupogrammon: A Beginner's Copybook for the
Greek Alphabet with Pronunciations. (2005)
ISBN 978-1933228013
Christopher Perrin. Greek Alphabet Code Cracker. (2008)
ISBN 978-1600510359
Christopher Perrin. Greek for Children, Primer A. (2010)
ISBN 978-1600510236
Michelle Hahne. Song School Greek: Student Book and CD. (2009)
ISBN 978-1600510441
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When foreigners () started learning Greek in
antiquity, Greek scholars developed additional
symbols to help non-Greeks speak the language.
From this practice, Polytonic Greek uses the
following:
breathings
accents
punctuation
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BREATHINGS Ancient Greek does not use a
separate letter for the h sound. Remember
from earlier that Greek has the aspirated
consonants , , and to indicate this
sound.
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BREATHINGS
If a word begins with aspiration, but not one
with of these consonants, however, the
aspirated consonants are no help, so Greek
uses two symbols to indicate aspiration or
lack of it.
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BREATHINGS
no aspiration: = o (smooth breathing)
aspiration: = ho (rough breathing)
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BREATHINGS Words beginning with or
always have a rough breathing:
= rho
as in = rhythmos (rhythm)
= hy-
as in hyper above ( English hyper)
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BREATHINGS Sometimes only a breathing
marks the difference between words. For
example:
= him = her
= himself = herself

Notice that if the word begins with a diphthong,

the breathing appears over the second letter.
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ACCENTS
Most words in Ancient Greek have an accent.
Ancient Greeks knew how to accent words.
They wrote in the accents to help non-Greeks
learn the language.
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ACCENTS
Ancient Greek scholars said the accent was a
rising tone on a single short vowel sound,
so they marked it with a line rising from
left-to-right: / (acute accent).
You may stress the vowel to sound the accent,
but try not to make it long when you do!
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ACCENTS
If an accent on a word was not pronounced, the
syllable which was normally accented shows
a grave accent (\) instead. For example, a final
accented syllable before another word was
typically not accented: but .
In a vowel has a grave (\), simply do not
pronounce the accent!
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ACCENTS
Accenting short vowel sounds
The vowels , , , , and are short.
When accented, the acute accent appears
above these vowels: , , , , and .
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ACCENTS
Accenting long vowel sounds
The vowels , , , , and are long.
Long vowels are, as their name suggests, long, in fact
double-length, vowel sounds:
= , = , = , = , and =
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ACCENTS
Accenting long vowel sounds
If the first part of this sound bears the accent,
then the whole vowel has a rising tone (/),
then a falling tone (\),
so it is marked ^ (circumflex) over the vowel.
= , = , = , = , =
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ACCENTS
Accenting long vowel sounds
If the second part of the sound bears the accent,
then only the rising tone (/) is written.

= , = , = , = , =
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Accenting long vowel sounds
When the second of two consecutive vowels is an or , the pair is a
diphthong. The same rules for marking an acute (/) or circumflex (^)
apply as for long vowels, and the accent is always written over the
second vowel:
= = = =
= = = =
= = =
= = =
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PUNCTUATION Greek uses four marks of
punctuation:
full stop . (period)
half stop (colon; Greek for limb; ~ semi-colon)
pause , (comma; Greek for stamp mark)
question mark ; (top/bottom reverse of ? symbol)

Quotation marks: strictly speaking, a capital

letter marks the beginning of a direct quote,
but often modern texts add quotation marks
for clarity.
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Finally, to return to our first observation, that
Greek spells words the way they sound, a note
about elision:
When Greeks elided or contracted words when
they spoke, they wrote them in contracted form.
In formal English, we write only uncontracted
forms (stop and go instead of stop n go etc),
regardless of how we pronounce them. Formal
Greek writing, however, shows the contractions.
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An example of elision:
= with me
remember, saying two vowels together is bad, so
most of the time, this phrase is elided to:
= wit me

SPELL IT LIKE IT SOUNDS!

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The history of writing the alphabet (and why it matters)
SPELL IT LIKE IT SOUNDS!
Vowels
Consonants
The alphabet in order and other stuff
Practice with names
Mythology via Percy Jackson
Harry Potter
Bible
Practice with English derivatives
Alphabet Algebra
What next?
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The history of writing the alphabet (and why it matters)
SPELL IT LIKE IT SOUNDS!
Vowels
Consonants
The alphabet in order and other stuff
Practice with names
Mythology via Percy Jackson
Harry Potter
Bible
Practice with English derivatives
Alphabet Algebra
What next?
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Visit http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/harry_potter.htm
for links to more information, vocabulary, and more resources,
especially the NPR interview where translator Andrew Wilson
reads a Quidditch game in ancient Greek!
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Note the slight difference
between the Classical and
Modern Greek editions.
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The history of writing the alphabet (and why it matters)
SPELL IT LIKE IT SOUNDS!
Vowels
Consonants
The alphabet in order and other stuff
Practice with names
Mythology via Percy Jackson
Harry Potter
Bible
Practice with English derivatives
Alphabet Algebra
What next?
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The history of writing the alphabet (and why it matters)
SPELL IT LIKE IT SOUNDS!
Vowels
Consonants
The alphabet in order and other stuff
Practice with names
Practice with English derivatives
Alphabet Algebra
What next?
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Practice with English derivatives
The following slides give ancient Greek words with their definitions.
Match them up with modern English words.
How do you think the ancient definitions led to the modern ones?
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love, charity
messenger
competitor for a prize
A land of the burnt-faced people
exchange
forgetting
a place or time with no ruler
uncovering, revelation
ambassador
spice
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spontaneous
joint, agreement
uncut
life
grass
birth
measuring the earth
letter (of the alphabet)
writing, drawing
a place for exercising
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divinity, demon
people-power
deceiver
paper folded in half
opinion, decree
action
two
I
peace
(reward for) good news
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life
river horse
research
heart
enrollment register
ladder
order
mixing bowl
judgment
, master, Lord
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circle
mathematics
madness
testimony
engineer
woman hater
secret
household management
small o
running backward
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comparison, parable
lung disease
maker, creater
politics
interpreter
recitation
the field of speechmaking
horn-nosed
dried out
wisdom
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seed
foundation, principle, plan
woman suffering in her womb
love of wisdom
bringing light
voice
mark
grace, gift
soul
big o
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Practice with English derivatives
The following slides give lists of ancient Greek words
and an additional word to be added to each of them.
Combine them to form modern English words.
How do you think the ancient definitions led to the
modern ones?
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ancient
stars
life
well
living thing
god
story
home (hint: is later pronounced )
skill
time

+ word, understanding
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other
deception
thunder
awesome
roof
tyrant

+ lizard
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five
six
seven
eight
ten
twelve

+ knee
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weight
little child
feet
soul

+ healing, medical
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If means love, based on the word
necrophilia, can you figure out what means?
If means spider, based on the word
arachnophobia, can you figure out what
means?
Based on the word pyromania, can you figure out
what means?
If refers to a leopard, or something with
leopard spots, can you guess what animal a
is?
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For making up questions and quizzes:
Wikipedia entries for ancient Greek topics usually
include the name or word in the original Greek
The Wikipedia entry "List of Greek and Latin roots in
English" includes an outstanding catalog of Classical
roots for English words. It includes the original
Greek, definitions, and English examples. You can
even sort the list alphabetically by the Greek root!
NB: You can cut & paste the word from Wikipedia
into whatever you need!
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The history of writing the alphabet (and why it matters)
SPELL IT LIKE IT SOUNDS!
Vowels
Consonants
Practice with names
Practice with English derivatives
Alphabet Algebra
What next?
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Speakers of Classical Greek did not like to
say two vowel sounds in a row.
Consequently, if two vowels come together,
they tended to
merge them into one (called a diphthong,
Greek for double sound)
or contract them.
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, and + contract:
+=

+=

+=
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, and + contract:
+=

+ =

+ =
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, and + contract:
+=

+ =

+ =
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ACCENTS
Accenting long vowel sounds
In Attic and Koine Greek, the vowels , and contract when
they meet. The same rules for marking an acute (/) or
circumflex (^) apply as for long vowels and diphthongs:
+= += += +=
+ = + = += + =
+ = + = += + =
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Play alphabet algebra with consonants, too!
Labial Dental Palatal
p t k = unvoiced
b d g = voiced
ph th kh = aspirated
ps s ks = +
m n , , , ng nasals
l r = liquids
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Alphabet algebra means questions, quizzes and
games like
+=
+=
short =
based on the consonant chart
long & short vowels and contractions of , , and
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The history of writing the alphabet (and why it matters)
SPELL IT LIKE IT SOUNDS!
Vowels
Consonants
The alphabet in order and other stuff
Practice with names
Practice with English derivatives
Alphabet Algebra
What next?
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What next?
Elementary and Middle School levels
High school
Post-secondary
Greek on digital platforms
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What next?
Elementary and Middle School levels
Ascanius Store: Getting to Know Greek
Getting to Know Greek: Student Textbook
Getting to Know Greek: Student Workbook
Getting to Know Greek: Teacher's Guide
http://www.ascaniusyci.org/store/gtkg-main.htm
Activitates Liberis, Volume V: Ancient Greek edited by Matthew D. Webb
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What next?
Elementary and Middle School levels
Harvey Bluedorn. A Greek Alphabetarion: A Primer for Teaching How to Read, Write & Pronounce
Ancient & Biblical Greek. (2004)
ISBN 978-0974361697
Harvey Bluedorn and Richard LaPierre. A Greek Hupogrammon: A Beginner's Copybook for the Greek
Alphabet with Pronunciations. (2005)
ISBN 978-1933228013
Christopher Perrin. Greek Alphabet Code Cracker. (2008)
ISBN 978-1600510359
Christopher Perrin. Greek for Children, Primer A. (2010)
ISBN 978-1600510236
Michelle Hahne. Song School Greek: Student Book and CD. (2009)
ISBN 978-1600510441
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What next?
High school
National Greek Exam: www.aclclassics.org/pages/nge-scholarship .
The "Introduction to Greek" Exam
At www.dramata.com:
From Zero to the National Greek Exam 2011: the 45-page packet of the
syllabus, grammar, exercises, vocabulary, etc.
From Zero to Greek: An Introduction to the Language for Everyone: the basic
packet
From Zero to Greek: Writing the Alphabet and Exercises: Power Point slides
showing how to write, say, and transliterate the alphabet, along with exercises
and answer key.
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What next?
Post-secondary
at www.dramata.com:
The College Greek Exam
Master Lists: The first Master List, Greek Writing,
focuses on the alphabet and sounds. It contains basically the
same information as this presentation, but with information
about accent placement and the rules for ending Greek
words.
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What next?
Post-secondary
at www.dramata.com: Master Lists
The second Master List provides a reference guide for Greek verb endings
(endings highlighted in red) on a single sheet (front and back). See Teaching
Greek Verbs: A Manifesto in Teaching Classical Languages 3 (2011) 23-42
to read about the methodology behind this list (tcl.camws.org).
The next Master List provides a reference guide for Greek nouns, pronouns
and adjectives (endings highlighted in red) on single sheet (front and back).
A final Master List, again on single sheet, compiles conjunctions (front) and
prepositions (back).
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What next?
Greek on digital platforms
 INTERMEDIATE GREEK
Two important warnings:
Read, copy and input Greek using Unicode
characters. It is and will remain the standard.
Other methods are fading and some are hard to
convert.
The basic Greek keyboard (called Modern,
Demotic, or Monotonic) has only a single accent.
For ancient Greek you need polytonic Greek.
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You can use any font you wish. So long as it is
Unicode-compliant, it should display and print
characters correctly and it will convert to other
fonts consistently.
I use Palatino Linotype for these Power Points,
handouts, etc., since it is bundled with Windows
and nicely legible.
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Visit www.dramata.com for:
Reference sheets for typing ancient (polytonic)
Greek in a Windows or Mac environment.
Recent Windows and Apple systems have built-in
polytonic Greek keyboards. You need only activate
them. The above sheets give instructions, keyboard
layouts, etc.
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Greek on digital platforms:
The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae will soon contain
virtually all Greek texts up to the 20th century
(www.tlg.uci.edu).
The Perseus project also contains many texts, with
linked grammatical and vocabulary information
(www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper).
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What next?
Promotional Materials for the Greek Classroom at www.dramata.com:
Sample Greek promotional flyer (Word document so you can modify it to
your needs)
Sample Greek promotional brochures (Word document of a series of tri-fold
brochures, which you can modify to your needs)
Decorate your room while you learn the Greek alphabet!
The Big Alphabet: each full-size page has a letter, along with its name and
pronunciation.
The not-as-big Alphabet: each full-size page has both the upper case and
lower case letter, along with its name and pronunciation.
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2012 in Las Vegas

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