Learning Ancient Greek – for non-Greek speakers Lower Intermediate

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Ioannis Petropoulos

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Learning Ancient Greek – for non-Greek speakers

Ancient Greek, the language of Aeschylus, Aesop, Alexander the Great, Archimedes, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Euclid, Euripides, Hippocrates, Homer, Pericles, Plato, Ptolemy, Sophocles, Thales, Thucydides, Xenophon, the language of the New Testament and the Holy Fathers, is foundational. Even in the 21st century, we continue to think about heroism, mythology, tragedy, comedy, satire, history, the novel, destiny, virtue, politics, art, science, and philosophy largely because of what people said and wrote in this subtle language. The influence of the ancient Greeks is still around us and within us. Learning Greek is excellent training for such diverse fields as literature and linguistics, theology, philosophy, political science, and law.

The Evgenios Voulgaris Academy of the St. Maxim the Greek Institute (running under the blessing of the Holy Monastery of Vatopedi, Mount Athos) will be offering four graded webinar courses in Ancient Greek in the academic year 2022-23.

Where necessary, a placement test will be given to participants before admitting them to their appropriate level.

Each class will last two hours and will meet twice weekly for a total of 36 hours roughly over a four-month period.

A certificate of attendance will be given to students upon completion of the course.

Course 2/4: Lower Intermediate

Students will strengthen their grounding in grammar and syntax, build their vocabulary, and learn to read Greek of increasing complexity. We shall be using Balme, Lawall, and Morwood’s highly successful and easy-to-follow Athenaze, An introduction to ancient Greek, Book I (3^rd edn revised, Oxford University Press, 2016).

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Duration 36 hours
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Language English
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Ioannis Petropoulos

Director Emeritus of Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, CHS, Harvard University Greece

Professor of Ancient Greek Literature, Democritus University of Thrace

Adjunct Professor of Classics, St Photius Orthodox Theological Seminary in Etna, CA

Ioannis (John) Petropoulos was educated at the University of Athens Law School, Harvard University (AB, Classics), and the University of Oxford (DPhil., Litterae Humaniores, Lincoln College). He taught ancient Greek literature at Oxford for several years before settling in Greece in 1990. Since then he has taught at the University of Crete, the Democritus University of Thrace, and the Hellenic Open University. He has also taught at universities in Brazil, China, the EU, the UK, and the US. He is a Professor of Ancient Greek Literature in the Dept of Greek Philology, Democritus University of Thrace, Adjunct Professor of Classics, St Photius Orthodox Theological Seminary in Etna, CA, and Director emeritus of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece (CHS Greece).

He has supervised a number of doctoral and post-doctoral theses affiliated with Greek, Brazilian, and Chinese universities, and is currently supervising a doctoral thesis (‘Liturgical and Biblical Greek: A Coursebook’) at the University of Redlands & San Francisco Theological Seminary.

His books include Kleos in a minor key: The Homeric Education of a Little Prince, published in 2011 by the Center for Hellenic Studies and Harvard University Press. His forthcoming books include The Gospel and the Greeks: Case Studies in the Reception of ancient Greek literature in the early Church, and A Cabinet of Monstrosities: Essays on the Cyclopes and other early Greek monsters.