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Spreading the love of classical languages one summer school at a time.
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Dr Michael McOsker: Herculaneum Papyrology
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Dr Michael McOsker: Herculaneum Papyrology
Why read Cicero today, Vittorio Bufacchi
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Why read Cicero today, Vittorio Bufacchi
Caroline Lawrence Belfast Summer School lecture
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Caroline Lawrence Belfast Summer School lecture
"How people really spoke Latin" Summer School lecture by Dr Philip Burton
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"How people really spoke Latin" Summer School lecture by Dr Philip Burton
Classical Festival 2024
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The inaugural Classical Festival hosted by H.M. Classics Academy and the Institute for Classics Education @classicsed took place on Sunday 23rd June 2024 You can read the entries here: classicseducation.com/classical-festival-entries/ and vote for your favourite here: forms.gle/ZfhnPLrooVkkrrBd8
2023 Summer School highlights
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#classicalgreek #ancientgreek #latin #classics #shorts
ICCG Information session for HMCA
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Intermediate Certificate in Classical Greek Information session for H.M. Classics Academy
"Herodotus and Thucydides" A lecture by Dr John Taylor
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This talk was delivered as part of the Belfast Summer School guest lecture series, July 2023.
Belfast Summer School Guest Lecture by Maiken Mosleth King (University of Bristol)
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This talk, "The representation of ancient Egypt in video games," was delivered as part of the Belfast Summer School guest lecture series, July 2023.
Belfast Summer School Guest Lecture by Mark McCahill
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This talk, "Ancestral Legacy Imagery in Ancient Rome," was part of the Belfast Summer School Guest lecture series, July 2023.
Belfast Summer School Guest lecture by Dr Anactoria Clarke (Open University)
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This talk, "Uncanny Doubles: Psychoanalytic theories of mythology," was delivered as part of the Belfast Summer School guest lecture series, July 2023.
Belfast Summer School guest lecture: Ben Cassell, Kings College London
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This talk, "Another Herakles: Theseus in Myth, Cult, and Athenian identity," was delivered as part of the Belfast Summer School lecture series, July/August 2023.
Belfast Summer School Guest Lecture by Raphael Musan-Levi
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This talk, "Beyond Athens and Jerusalem: a Vision of Unity in the Corpus Dionysiacum," was delivered as part of the Belfast Summer School guest lecture series, July/August 2023.
Prof James Robson's lecture to the 2022 Belfast Summer School
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Prof James Robson's lecture to the 2022 Belfast Summer School
Prof Roy Gibson's lecture to the 2022 Belfast Summer School
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Prof Roy Gibson's lecture to the 2022 Belfast Summer School
Jessica Clarke's lecture to the 2022 Belfast Summer School
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Jessica Clarke's lecture to the 2022 Belfast Summer School
Lauren Heilman's lecture to the 2022 Belfast Summer School
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Lauren Heilman's lecture to the 2022 Belfast Summer School
Prof Elton Barker's lecture to the 2022 Belfast Summer School
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Prof Elton Barker's lecture to the 2022 Belfast Summer School
Dr Mai Musié's lecture to the 2022 Belfast Summer School
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Dr Mai Musié's lecture to the 2022 Belfast Summer School
Dr Charlie Kerrigan Introduction to Medieval Latin
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Dr Charlie Kerrigan Introduction to Medieval Latin
Prof Michael Scott Introducing the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
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Prof Michael Scott Introducing the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
Professor Shadi Bartsch Aeneas Polytropos
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Professor Shadi Bartsch Aeneas Polytropos
Georgina Homer The Afterlives of Euripides' Unstaged Princess
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Georgina Homer The Afterlives of Euripides' Unstaged Princess
Belfast Summer School Highlights, July 2021
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Belfast Summer School Highlights, July 2021
Ancient Greek on the worldwide stage: teaching ancient languages in a pandemic.
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Ancient Greek on the worldwide stage: teaching ancient languages in a pandemic.
The Ancient Greek Novels - Helen McVeigh
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The Ancient Greek Novels - Helen McVeigh
I understood the tour to india to be coastal rather than cross-ocean when i read the periplus.
Öncelikle iyi günler, Türkiyede yasiyorum fenotipim atalarim büyük oranda antik Yunanlıydı o yüzden antik yunanca ogrenmek istiyorum. Modern yunancayi ogrenip mi antik yunanca öğrenmeliyim yoksa antik yunancayi tek basinada ogrenebilir miyim size bunu sormak istiyorum
The reason for learning Ancient Greeks is that we come with direct contact with the people whose thoughts, actions , behaviour, experiences and words, literally developed and evolved the human brain.As a result, those people were civilized and passed their civilization onto other contemprary ( to them) and subsequents generations.That is, people in general democratized, educated and spiritualized..Unraveling the ball of thread of human spirituality and observing it from its very beginning, we are able to remember and re-consider why and how have evolved..Remebering and reconsidering are both vital for our well being and existence, because we people tend to forget..And if we allow to ourselves to forget we feel lost and confused!
There is freedom in Jesus Christ!! He breaks the chains of sin, gives people new life and freedom from the power of death. "Jesus answered them and said 'Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave to sin. And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. Therefore, if the son makes you free then you shall be free indeed.' " John 8:34-36
Very interesting! And I would say that he made his case that Cicero is relevant today! I do wish you had recorded the Q&A portion as well.
It's karma that this biased lecture didn't reach the masses.. you complete ignored SOMALI citystates... which were the middle men of this great venture
Did you guys actually purchase a license to use Taylor Swift's music to promote the program?
I had 4 years of classical Greek in college and 2 years in seminary. I love reading the New Testament in the original. You pickup so many nuances that are hard to convey. Some bible translations go for thought for thought and some do word for word. The later are better for study by non greek readers.
Somalis are pharohos
Hail McVeigh
Reading Enid Blyton's books gave me an impulse to get to know the ancient Greek language. However when starting Latin the impetus vaned.
Ancient Greek medicine, as transmitted and modified by Arabs and Persians, is alive today in the countries descended from ancient India under the guise of Unani (= Ionian) Medicine or Tibb. However, to study it you don't need Greek or Latin.
I learnt Greek Koine many-many years ago with very purpose was to understand better the New Testament.
Aside from the cultural stuff, one rather practical point that is hardly ever made is what a boon a knowledge of classical Greek (and Latin) is if you are studying medicine, as it gives you a huge leg-up with the vast amount of terminology you need to learn. At uni I astonished a medical student mate who was grumbling about all the complicated names for things he had to memorise, by accurately deducing what a "salpingogram" was, despite never having heard the term before.
"Τοσοῦτον δ’ ἀπολέλοιπεν ἡ πόλις ἡμῶν περὶ τὸ φρονεῖν καὶ λέγειν τοὺς ἄλλους ἀνθρώπους, ὥσθ’ οἱ ταύτης μαθηταὶ τῶν ἄλλων διδάσκαλοι γεγόνασιν, καὶ τὸ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ὄνομα πεποίηκεν μηκέτι τοῦ γένους, ἀλλὰ τῆς διανοίας δοκεῖν εἶναι, καὶ μᾶλλον Ἕλληνας καλεῖσθαι τοὺς τῆς παιδεύσεως τῆς ἡμετέρας ἢ τοὺς τῆς κοινῆς φύσεως μετέχοντας."
Πολύ θα ήθελες αλλά δεν γίνεται.
Great ! Sea ANTIGONE, the resist to man's brutal world. A Greek friend, Demetrios.
17:15 Its worth noting that while the author shows an awareness of Alexander and the Indo-Greek kingdoms, the particular passage is referring to a place Alexander never visited (and which Indo-Greek kings never ruled), which shows that by this point a lot of myth was conflated into stories of Alexander.
The answer to that question is obvious. It’s important to be unemployable in several fields.
If you read ancient philosophers that comment on myths or comment on homer works, and explain the meaning behind the myths, you will unlock an entire new world that you could never imagine even existed and your mind will be blown, after this you will feel so sorry for everyone else for missing this treasure and reading those things as if they were simply a fairy tale
Old Greek did never exist! It was the Albanian Language, Gheg Dialect, the language of Greece at that ancient time. New Greek and the Myths can be easily deciphered from Albanian Language.
Sray in your hole Albanian
Scythopolis is modern Beit Shean which is in Israel....
I am Greek and intended to follow mathematics or physics at school, but around 15, when we started learning ancient greek and most of all, when i was taught Thucydides' Peloponnesian war from the original, it was love at first sight and there was no turning back. Today i am so happy that i learned ancient Greek because as Helen points out, there are so many texts i can access. The most amazing thing is this feeling when i come across something that seems so modern and yet it's stated there in something that was perceived 2,500 years ago. Like in Plato's Republic, when one character of the dialogue, Cephalos, tells Socrates that most people live their life as they please and don't worry about the afterlife, that is not until they reach an old age. Then they start thinking if there really is afterlife and whether they will be punished for their wrong doings. But he, Cephalos, thinks he has always lived justly and he has nothing to worry about (and yet people of that time knew that Cephalos, a real person living in Athens around 420 bc, had a sad and very unjust death...)
The Greek language is NOT at the heart of this civilisation. It IS the heart of this civilisation. There is a lot to say, but I will mention only one thing that is interesting to me. The ban of teaching the Greek language, even from Greeks to Greeks, for 400 years during the ottoman occupation constitutes the biggest crime against civilisation ever. So big that it will still require justice until the day justice achieved.
Colonial powers often banned languages. Examples in recent times include sign language in schools for deaf children, the native languages of Canada and Australia in mission schools, Ukrainian until the October revolution, Kurdish in Turkey. Before the war the US government discouraged the speaking of indigenous French and German dialects in its territory. Many of the new nation states of the 19th century repressed minority languages. We don't know for sure if the Christian emperors of Rome stopped the teaching of Etruscan, Egyptian and Akkadian when they banned teaching by non-Christians.
@@faithlesshound5621 yeah, I know. But that is why I made sure to mention the connection between the Greek language and civilisation.
How can İ contact you? İ have extensive knowledge of primary literary sources and have been wanting to get proficient in my understanding of the ancient hellenic language spectrum, but due to time and circumstantial constraints, İ've been posponing it indefinitely. İ can't say how excited İ felt after watching your video. We should eventually lead the current historical profile into the spark of a Second Renaissance.
i had 4 years of classical Greek in college as I was considering a career in Protestant minister. i remember reading the Iliad and the Odessey I am now 66 and a part time Baptist minister
I'm Greek American and Ancient Greek is so different from modern Greek. Learning Ancient Greek is difficult for anyone.
Not really. Learn Καθαρεύουσα and then it becomes much easier
@@user-vw1vf5cw7d Καθαρεύουσα ?? i dont understand what u typed..i want to learn greek language, i am indian..
@@pg_storyman5873 it is the form of language that was spoken by the educated people in the time of the revolution of 1821, that was later adopted officially by the state. It is derived directly from the language that was spoken at the time of the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Essentially, after the Turkish conquest the then spoken language falled into a decadent state because of the extended illiteracy that followed it, while the very few educated people inside the Ottoman empire (usually clergymen, priests) and the diaspora, continued to use the language as before, so they retained it "clean" (this is what Kathareuousa means) . I made this comment because I assumed he speaks the modern demotic variant, which is the one that you should start.
Not so different, me im greek , not know to speak ancient dialect but i can understand it very well after reading Herodotus and Homer
Ancient Greek it's not so different from modern Greek ...it's the same language the same words the same writing...what is different is the syntax and Ancient Greek has more complex grammar...we still say δημοκρατία», «θάλασσα», «πολιτεία», «θεός», «ειρήνη», «γυμναστικὴ ελευθερία», «δικαιοσύνη» ὁδός, τέλος and thousand more words expressions and more!
I had 5 years of Ancient Greek in High School in Athens.....Priceless.....
I'm 81 and learning Greek testament.
Good for you ,you will learn to appreciate the bible more .
Ευγε!!!!
❤ ΑΝΔΡΩΝ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΩΝ ΠΑΣΑ ΓΗ ΤΑΦΟΣ....❤ ΤΩΝ ΦΡΟΝΙΜΩΝ ΟΛΙΓΑ...Ο ΦΙΛΟΣ ΤΟΝ ΦΙΛΟΝ ΕΝ ΚΙΝΔΥΝΟΙΣ ΓΙΓΝΩΣΚΕΙ...ΜΗΔΕΝ ΠΡΟ ΤΟΥ ΤΕΛΟΥΣ ΜΑΚΑΡΙΖΕ........❤
The Google translation here sucks. This is a readable translation of the above Ancient Greek maxims: ❤️ THE EARTH ENTIRE IS A [FITTING] EPITAPH FOR RENOWNED MEN...❤️ FOR THE PRUDENT A LITTLE IS SEEMLY...❤️A FRIEND KNOWETH A FRIEND IN TIMES OF DANGER...[CORRIGENDUM: ΜΗΔΕΝΑ...] CONSIDER NO ONE FORTUNATE/BLESSED UNTIL THE END........❤️
The Greek alphabet is not that hard. I had to learn it in fourth grade. The associated project was to produce a short story written in English, but transliterated into Greek letters. This stood me in good stead decades later when I decided to learn Koine Greek so I could read he New Testament in the original language. However, some time later, I was faced with the necessity of remedying the damage when an artist taking part in a festival for which I was producing the English version of the program book presented a translation of a text in Attic Greek that was of such poor quality that it would stick out like a sore thumb compared to the other texts we were translating ourselves. So... I redid the translation myself. I had to use an analytical dictionary to sort out the inflection, but once I had that taken care of, most of the vocabulary was pretty familiar, and I was able to carry out the translation. But no, I don't speak or write either Attic or Koine at this point. I am hoping to remedy that in due time :)
Been having trouble with the alphabet...but I wonder if that's down to the extra 50 years I have on your first introduction?
@@archiewoosung5062 I don't know. Have you tried writing a short story in English, but using Greek letters? That method worked pretty well for me... Another thing I can think of that might work is to find out the names of household objects in Greek, put the written forms on Post-It notes and, well, post them around your house. Try to find obects that will cover as many of the letters as possible. Then when you are going about your business, you can look at the Post-Its and say the names written on them, with the writing actually in front of you.
One good thing about speaking ancient greek is that you can avoid embarassment when you inevitably screw up when talking to native speakers (who are all long dead).
I’m Dorothy Prior in Gibraltar. Learning classical Greek from scratch at the age of 83. Can’t physically do much else, so why not?! Love the ancient Greeks, and want to be one when I grow up. 😂
Omg, that is amazing. You are considered old when you stop learning
Μπράβο Ντοροθυ συνέχισε ωραία!!!
ΕΥΓΕ, ΔΩΡΟΘΕΑ! - ΕΥΧΟΜΑΙ ΣΟΙ ΥΓΕΙΑ, ΕΥΕΞΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΕΤΗ ΠΟΛΛΑ! ΧΑΙΡΕΤΙΖΩ ΣΕ ΕΚ ΔΕΛΦΩΝ. 🌿🏛 🇬🇷
You’re an inspiration! Congratulations on your journey!
Jesus is the only way to be saved and enter eternal life, you should join His Catholic Church!
It was fun and amazing learning Greek, Koine. Sadly, it lasted after only 3 years.
I'd slap the shit out of that cyclops
Thrilling! I am going to Athens in a month to take a 3 week class (maybe longer) in Modern Greek. I had 2 years of ancient Greek at the Uni. Thanks for doing this!
καλος!
If it weren't 7,400 km away, I would love to participate, but - alas - the commute would be a bit much!
I like learn Greek and Latin languages. What's the best way learn these two languages.?
Not sure if it's the best, but just started using 'Open Learning' from the UK's Open University. there are quite a few offering on CZcams; why not simply try a few & find out which you prefer?
Congratulations to all of you trying to learn such a rich language with so many richness Am Greek and I know what Greek has to offer to the humanity Keep up the good work ❤
I would love a collaboration with Chihon Teaches! Great content❤
I have a masters degree in greek and latin but I’ve never felt I actually mastered them, just got good at passing all the tests in Uni. I’m trying to get back into ancient greek now after 20 years and I still feel I’ll never master it 😅 I’ve been using Reading Greek to get me back and that’s ok, also tried Alexandros ton hellenikon paidion and, Idk if there are mistakes in the book but I can’t make sense of certain word forms and sentences 😅
👍👍❤
have you tried the Albanian language, the Geg dialect today, Kosovo, this is the oldest Indo-European language
@@avniahmeti5349 Older than Sanskrit or Lithuanian? Do you have a reference/proof?
@@avniahmeti5349dont pop like a fart albanian
@@avniahmeti5349 What about Hittite? Surely the cuneiform tablets in Hittite are older than any remnants of early Albanian.
How different is old Greeck from the new Greeck?
Hello, I am half Greek and have just basic knowledge of modern Greek, but just recently I have had a strong desire and interest in ancient Greek. I feel a lot of enthusiasm and excitement about the prospect of learning it. I have always had a great reverence for the ancient Greek culture and heritage and I've always had curiosity about the ancient language, but just recently it changed from being some very inconceivable concept, to I've been thinking of ways in which I could truly learn the ancient language. It was also an unexpected thing when you made the comment at the end about "with the era of technology we're living in we can do this together". The thought that I could have contact with you and others like you is absolutely wonderful! My approach to ancient Greek has changed from being distant, it's changed into me devising ways to actually learn. If you are willing to have contact/correspondence with a fellow "lover of all things Greek" although I have currently limited knowledge, I would greatly welcome that with open arms!! And I would have immense gratitude indeed.
Helen whats you saying.....?????............Till 1920..athens has spoken Albanian..all Greece ALBANIAN...UNIVERSITY of athens.....czcams.com/video/xr4iAv-gYv8/video.html
lmao
ALL HAIL SPARTA WHERE MY GRANDPARENTS CAME TO AMERICA FROM THATS REAL NOT SOME MYTH .
Tll 1920..athens has spoken Albanian..all Greece ALBANIAN...UNIVERSITY of athens.....czcams.com/video/xr4iAv-gYv8/video.html
My Grandfather is from there too, greetings from Canada
I want to learn greek
Lots of interesting topics- thanks for uploading so much great content for me to mull over
Fantastic to see you back, Helen 😊 I really enjoyed this presentation- fascinating about the background to New Comedy, a subject I'm quite new to.
I have a “nuts and bolts” question for you: What pronunciation do you use and why did you choose it? Ευχαριστώ πολύ!
@@techtutorvideos Συγνώμη. Ουκ οιδα τον διάλεκτον σου. Τι έστιν εν τη κοινή διαλέκτω;
@@techtutorvideos Η νεοελληνική προφορά είναι η καλύτερη διαδρομή για να πάτε