An on-line, open-access course in Attic Greek

Aaron Douglas Professor of Ancient History and Classics
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
vgorman1@unl.edu or vbgorman@gmail.com

My Teaching Philosophy: A Very New Approach to a Very Old Discipline
Start Here: How to Approach This Course

Unit 1 The Simple Sentence

1.1 Alphabet and Basic Verbs (imperfect and aorist)
1.2 Articles and Basic Nouns (1st and 2nd declension)
Using Alpheios and Making Trees
1.3 Coordinating Conjunctions (mini-lesson)
1.4 Prepositions
1.5 Sentence Adverbs and Emphasizing Particles (mini-lesson)
1.6 Adjectives, Pronouns, and Numbers
1.7 Adverbs
1.8 Third Declension Nouns
1.9 Third Declension Adjectives and Pronouns
Unit 1 Passages from Xenophon, Hellenika 1 (excerpted)

Unit 2 The Complex Sentence

2.1 Verb Tenses and Voices
2.2 Subordinate Clauses with the Indicative
2.3 Infinitives
2.4 Relative Clauses
2.5 Subordinate Clauses with the Subjunctive and Optative
2.6 Participles
2.7 Direct Speech
Passages from Various Authors

Digital Tools

Alpheios
Perseids Project
Logeion (link to Latin and Greek lexica)
Vanessa Gorman's YouTube channel
Perseus Project
Smyth's Greek Grammar

Further Resources

Creative Commons License

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