Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin: Online Course from OpenLearn

The free course, Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin, gives a taste of what it is like to learn two ancient languages. It is for those who have encountered the classical world through translations...

Syllabus

- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Characteristics of the Greek and Latin languages
- 1 Characteristics of the Greek and Latin languages
- 1.1 The spread of Greek
- 1.2 The spread of Latin
- 1.3 Family resemblances
- 1.4 Indo-European
- 1.5 Word endings and word order
- 1.6 Language and literature
- 1.7 The quantity of Greek and Latin
- 1.8 ‘Classical’ languages
- 2 Beginning Latin
- 2 Beginning Latin
- 2.1 Parallel text 1: Pliny
- 2.2 Parallel text 2: Catullus
- 2.3 ‘Missing’ words
- 2.4 Word endings
- 2.5 Word order
- 2.6 Recap
- 3 Latin noun endings
- 3 Latin noun endings
- 3.1 ‘Of’ and the genitive case
- 3.2 ‘To’, ‘for’ and the dative case
- 3.3 ‘By’, ‘with’ and the ablative case
- 3.4 The first declension
- 3.5 The second declension
- 4 Latin verb endings
- 4 Latin verb endings
- 4.1 Person and number
- 4.2 The first conjugation
- 4.3 Agreement
- 5 Simple sentences
- 5 Simple sentences
- 5.1 Subject and object in English
- 5.2 Subject and object in Latin
- 5.3 Word ending in English
- 5.4 Word order in Latin
- 5.5 Practice
- 5.6 Declensions summary
- 6 Reading Latin
- 6 Reading Latin
- 6.1 Words
- 6.2 Beyond words
- 6.3 Larger units
- 6.4 Closing thoughts
- 7 Beginning Greek
- 7 Beginning Greek
- 7.1 Parallel text: Euripides
- 7.2 ‘Missing words’
- 7.3 Word endings
- 7.4 Word order
- 7.5 Recap
- 8 Greek noun endings
- 8 Greek noun endings
- 8.1 ‘Of’ and the genitive case
- 8.2 ‘To’, ‘for’ and the dative case
- 8.3 Uses of the dative case
- 8.4 ‘By’, ‘with’ and the dative case
- 8.5 The first declension
- 8.6 The second declension
- 9 Greek verb endings
- 9 Greek verb endings
- 9.1 Person and number
- 9.2 -ω (omega) verbs
- 9.3 Agreement
- 10 Simple sentences
- 10.1 Subject and object in English
- 10.2 Subject and object in Greek
- 10.3 Word ending in English
- 10.4 Word order in Greek
- 10.5 Practice
- 10.6 Declensions summary
- 11 Reading Greek
- 11.1 Words
- 11.2 Beyond words
- 11.3 Larger units
- 11.4 Closing thoughts
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements

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