We were excited to welcome Gregory Crane and Farnoosh Shamsian for an Online Open House entitled "Teaching Greek in the 21st Century." The event took place on Friday, October 1, 2021, at 11:00 a.m. EDT and was recorded. You can watch on the Center for Hellenic Studies YouTube channel. or in the frame below. Read more
We have been continuing our exploration of digital tools that help us in the translation study groups, and for carrying out word searches and word studies. Many of us have made use of Logeion, for both Greek and Latin. This online reference has a number of useful features, and provides access to lexicons and dictionaries. It also includes references to a number of Greek and Latin textbooks (including Hansen &… Read more
We were pleased to welcome back Leonard Muellner, who introduced the features and plans for the CHS project entitled The Free First Thousand Years of Greek (FF1K). The FF1K comprises the texts attested in manuscript from the earliest antiquity up to the 3rd Century CE., with some later additions that are part of the “normal” corpus of texts that classical Greek and Latin includes, such as the marginal scholia for… Read more
Paraskevi Foti has written a doctoral dissertation on teaching ancient Greek to pre-school children in Greece, using Aesop's Fables, and music. Here, she shares some insights from her research. Read more
"In October of 2016, I had the pleasure of talking about Homeric poetry to the largest audience I have ever addressed in the many years I’ve spent teaching Classics—over 500 students in a huge new amphitheater at the University of Lille in northeastern France." Leonard Muellner explains how medical students there are being introduced to Latin and Greek—the "indestructible languages"—as part of the curriculum. Read more
