Learning Greek Cursive
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Learning Greek Cursive
Hi there,
I am starting to learn ancient greek, and I find it slow to print all of my excerises out. In English and Latin, I write everything in long-hand.
Does anyone know of either an easily available book (like on Amazon) or a website which will show in detail how to write all of the greek letters in cursive so I can write in Greek faster? Something especially which shows examples of whole words so one can see how everything connects.
Thanks very much,
Kevin
I am starting to learn ancient greek, and I find it slow to print all of my excerises out. In English and Latin, I write everything in long-hand.
Does anyone know of either an easily available book (like on Amazon) or a website which will show in detail how to write all of the greek letters in cursive so I can write in Greek faster? Something especially which shows examples of whole words so one can see how everything connects.
Thanks very much,
Kevin
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hi kevin, i write cursive, and just put online an e.g. for you (i wrote out the alphabet and a few e.g. lines in my aeschylus OCT):
http://www.freewebs.com/mhninaeide/grkc ... Oct-06.pdf
i now write lunate sigmas, but used to write medials and finals (see my old notes on the right-hand side), but either way is fine, cheers, chad.
http://www.freewebs.com/mhninaeide/grkc ... Oct-06.pdf
i now write lunate sigmas, but used to write medials and finals (see my old notes on the right-hand side), but either way is fine, cheers, chad.
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Thanks for sharing that, Chad. I find it interesting that you print your English (the margin notes) but use cursive for your Greek. Is that your usual practice?
The lists:
G'Oogle and the Internet Pharrchive - 1100 or so free Latin and Greek books.
DownLOEBables - Free books from the Loeb Classical Library
G'Oogle and the Internet Pharrchive - 1100 or so free Latin and Greek books.
DownLOEBables - Free books from the Loeb Classical Library
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I would be very interested to see what Modern Greeks' handwriting looks like.
For myself, I print always, in any alphabet, in the interest of being able to read what I've written in the future.
For myself, I print always, in any alphabet, in the interest of being able to read what I've written in the future.
William S. Annis — http://www.aoidoi.org/ — http://www.scholiastae.org/
τίς πατέρ' αἰνήσει εἰ μὴ κακοδαίμονες υἱοί;
τίς πατέρ' αἰνήσει εἰ μὴ κακοδαίμονες υἱοί;
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mingshey that's a good page although some of these letters look seriously badly writen (that mu for instance!)
Here's the formal writing (not that you'll find anyone writing like this)
Here's a pic of someone's handwriting (it's from before the 80s so it has all the aspiration marks and the accent marks.
In this site you can see how all letters are writen but bear in mind I would cut both my hands to be able to write so clearly although that would be defeat the purpose so to speak.
Here's the formal writing (not that you'll find anyone writing like this)
Here's a pic of someone's handwriting (it's from before the 80s so it has all the aspiration marks and the accent marks.
In this site you can see how all letters are writen but bear in mind I would cut both my hands to be able to write so clearly although that would be defeat the purpose so to speak.
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Here's another link found at http://www.kypros.org/
http://www.kypros.org/LearnGreek/mod/re ... php?id=479
http://www.kypros.org/LearnGreek/mod/re ... php?id=479
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