Resources on the web

WEB RESOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF ANCIENT AND BIBLICAL GREEK: A SELECTION

There are a number of useful drills on the web.  With very few exceptions, they serve to reinforce the knowledge of forms, declension and conjugation, or they are intended to help in learning the vocabulary.  In our Lesson Indexes you will find links to those pertinent to the grammar we study.

INTRODUCTORY DRILLS

  •     Pronunciation Guide by Prof. Donald Mastronarde, U. of California at Berkeley.  This is one module of a set of excellent drills currently being developed as freeware, to accompany Prof. Mastronarde's textbook.  The single focus is the study of forms.  I will include in our lessons links to other Mastronarde modules whenever applicable to the progression of this course.       

  •    W. Petrofsky, Greek Alphabet Drill teaches the names of the Greek letters and their sounds. View its Chart first.  

  •    Marilyn Katz's GUIDE TO WRITING GREEK LETTERS

DRILLS ON FORMS AND VOCABULARY DRILLS

  •     Prof. Donald Mastronarde's drills (University of California at Berkeley)

DICTIONARIES AND LEXICA ON THE INTERNET  

  •      Perseus, a magnificent multimedia site with abundant materials for the study of the ancient Greek culture and much more, has two versions of the best ancient Greek Lexicon, Liddell/Scott/Jones/Mackenzie.  To access them you go to Tools in the Perseus toolbar.  It is advisable to delay the use of the Greek texts in Perseus until you become familiar with some grammar of Greek.  All the texts in Perseus offer grammatical help, clickable dictionary entries, searches, and translation.  They are also linked to the grammars I list below.

  •       Search engine of the University of Birmingham Department of Theology

  •      Bible Study Tools

FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS

  •     SMYTH AND OTHER GRAMMARS IN PERSEUS  (all advanced)

The texts in Perseus have links to the best grammar in English for college students, Smyth's.   I do not recommend using it at this stage of your learning.  In Perseus there is also an abridged version of Smyth's Syntax, by Jeffrey Ridberg-Cox.  

  •    Prof. Helma Dik's "Nifty Handouts."  Reasonable explanations and summaries of forms. Useful charts.  (all advanced)

    Last updated: 8/19/2004