Labeled drawings to help learn nouns

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Hey everyone,

I’m looking for pictures or drawings (as printable PDFs) that can help me learn ancient Greek nouns. For example, a drawing of a hoplite with each piece of his armor labeled with its Greek word. Or a drawing of an army with heavy and light infantry soldiers, calvary, archers etc each labeled with their Greek words. And so on.

Is there anything like this around that I can download (for free)? I’ve tried googling but so far no luck.

Thanks!
—Mitch

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Tabulae, quibus antiquitates Graecae et Romanae illustrantur
Every table has a different subject. Check those about weapons. I think they have a hoplite.

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Ooh, fascinating, the drawings are beautiful and informative! But actually I was looking for something simpler and more cartoonish :slight_smile:

Thanks!
—Mitch

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Manual de adquisición de vocabulario griego antiguo

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Muy útil, gracias! ¿Pero nada en inglés?

Thanks!
—Mitch

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Let me add a plug for this collaborative effort (images and “Ancient” Greek only)

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All the plates collected in one file

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Nice!

Thanks!
—Mitch

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So is ΛΕΞΙΚΟΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΝ ἐν εἰκόσιν mostly modern Greek vocab illustrated? Or is some ancient Greek mixed in with it?

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As Ancient as possible with help from Katharevousa. Please read the introduction.

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Thank you this is absolutely amazing! I have never seen anything like this before, hugely appreciated. :grinning_face:

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Fascinating, thanks Bedwere! I didn’t know about Katharevousa before and have found this useful blog post on Purist Greek: Albert/Bedwere/Nicholas: Imaginum Vocabularium Latinum in Ancient Greek – Ἡλληνιστεύκοντος

Thanks!
—Mitch

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Hi Mitch, the best way to learn things like this will be to produce them yourself. The best device to learn nouns is to use them as unless you have a large capacity for remembering reams of nouns on sight (I certainly don’t) there’s not much hope of retaining the information. The real issue is the need to list more than one form of each word and its article as these are what are needed. In the lexica generally you find the nominative, genitive and the article in order to be able to understand the noun. The reason for this is that the nature of declined nouns and conjugated verbs produce some amount of overlap and one ends up misrepresenting or misunderstanding individual forms. Its quite common to search a particularly conjugated verb only to be presented with an unrelated noun which shares the same lettering; this is an issue I have been facing whilst working through the exercises in the H&Q intensive course. With little to no help available in verifying my work I’ve encountered these issues and gotten used to methods of self-verification. If you learn solely an -os noun you will end up missing or not recognising the other forms when they come up in a text or presuming something is a noun when actually it’s verb etc etc. Context is incredibly important and unless you account for this, labelling in a diagram may lead you to mis-learn the words you are trying to remember. My apologies if I sound unhelpful; my intention is the opposite!. I don’t wish to disuade you from your path; my wife also talks of such materials as you do (my young daughter wishes also to learn the greek!). Personally, I only retain a noun once I’ve translated it several times from a text (or used it in a practise sentence having gone through the process of declining it etc).

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Not the original poster, but well said; I don’t think you sound unhelpful at all. Creating diagrams yourself is a great way to use the words so you retain them, because simple memorization doesn’t get one very far when it comes to developing a skill. I have considered doing something similar myself, and I’m going to look at the resources others linked for inspiration.