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I am a homeschooling mom and my oldest is 5. I am currently teaching all of my kids German since I am conversational in German. I am planning on teaching my kids both Latin and Ancient Greek. There are lots of choices for Latin programs, but not a lot for Ancient Greek that I can find. Which language would you suggest I start with and which age would you recommend to start? Can you also ...

Hi,
Am here mainly to improve my ability to read Homeric Greek. Have struggled with it on and off for a few years but now looks like I'm going to have a liitle more free time to work on it.
This is a great site. Have already picked up much useful info in the Homeric Greek forum.
Thanks,
Hal

What is the meaning of open and above board?
For example, reformed character now runs a pub up in Sussex, all open and honest.
(Note "above board" was originally a term from the chart table or board, honest players kept their hands on it, indicating that it did not engage in any mischief under the seam.)

Hi everybody,

I'm translating into English the cheiroballistra text written by (Pseudo-)Heron in (Koine) Greek around ~50-100AD. I'm publishing the translation under a free Creative Commons License in the Greek and Roman artillery wiki on this page. The full original text is available in public domain, for example in this publication available on Google Books:

• Wescher, C. 1867. Poliocétique des Grecs. Traités Théoretiques. Récits Historiques. Paris.

I've attended two classical Greek courses in the ...

Greetings:

Just starting my study of Greek with Pharr's Homeric Greek. This is one of the long term projects I have been putting off till after college. I look forward to finishing the Iliad, Odyssey, then branch in to other dialects to explore Greek philosophies and sciences. Ultimately my goal is to read the New Testament in Greek to satisfy my bucket list.

Salvete!

I'm looking for a dictionary and am thinking about buying the 1977-edition of Cassell's Latin Dictionary: Latin-English, English-Latin (NOT the "concise" edition but the real one) as published by Macmillan General Reference.

My requirements: 1 volume, Latin examples, ideally hardback, for the general population of Latin readers, reasonably complete

I had a look at the 19th-century original on Archive.org and liked it. Before buying it, however, I would like to know if anyone of ...

Is there a way I can set my computer to add the macrons? Thanks.

Hi,

this is a quick note to inform the members of Textkit that the Malta Classics Association now has a website:

http://www.classicsmalta.org/

It's still a very new website so there's not much stuff on the site but we'll be adding material as it is contributed. One of our goals is to create links with Classicists and Classics Associations around the world. Anyone wishing to contact us is very welcome to do so.

Joseph Anthony Debono ...

Hello,

I have been interested lately in Greek and Roman Architecture, and having come across a fabulous video podcast course on Roman architecture available from Yale at http://oyc.yale.edu/history-of-art/roman-architecture, I have been looking for anything, podcast or otherwise, dealing with the development of Greek architecture, which uses pictures or video. So far not much luck.

Naturally, the one style of Greek architecture which interests me the most is Aeolic, precisely ...

Did this set of forums suffer a major loss of archives and records a few years ago? I remember inputting several messages about Homeric Greek, but I cannot find them now.

Before that, its archives were moved, and in the process, contained Unicode text (which includes Greek) was corrupted and became unreadable.