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
Tabulae, quibus antiquitates Graecae et Romanae illustrantur
Every table has a different subject. Check those about weapons. I think they have a hoplite.
Ooh, fascinating, the drawings are beautiful and informative! But actually I was looking for something simpler and more cartoonish 
Thanks!
—Mitch
Manual de adquisición de vocabulario griego antiguo
Muy útil, gracias! ¿Pero nada en inglés?
Thanks!
—Mitch
Let me add a plug for this collaborative effort (images and “Ancient” Greek only)
All the plates collected in one file
Nice!
Thanks!
—Mitch
So is ΛΕΞΙΚΟΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΝ ἐν εἰκόσιν mostly modern Greek vocab illustrated? Or is some ancient Greek mixed in with it?
As Ancient as possible with help from Katharevousa. Please read the introduction.
Thank you this is absolutely amazing! I have never seen anything like this before, hugely appreciated. 
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
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).
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.
Yes @Meat5000 I agree that a good way to memorize stuff like this is to make your own learning resources like tables, diagrams, charts etc and I’ve been doing that quite a bit. I started by focussing on verb forms by making tables of all the tenses, voices and moods of ω-verbs and regularly reviewed them at bedtime until I could recognize most verb forms when encountering them in my readings, which at this point have been limited to the GNT, LXX and Xenophon’s Anabasis (plus the sample sentences in the Cambridge Grammar).
But just for fun last week I stopped by the library at our university and check a whole bunch of Loeb volumes on Herodotus, Thucydides, Isocrates, Plato, Pindar, Polybius, Josephus and the Greek Anthology, and as I’ve been browsing them I’m happy that I can actually read bits of them here and there, though of course I get tripped up a lot with unfamiliar vocabulary, so I seem to have achieved a half-decent grasp of Greek grammar. Mind you, it took me almost two years to work through the Cambridge Grammar twice and understand most of the examples, and I have to keep referring back to it to relearn things I keep forgetting or haven’t quite understood.
What also seems to be helping me a lot these days is working through a single text (the Epistle to the Hebrews) and keep reading and re-reading and re-reading it, each time focusing on a single area of grammar. For example, on my fourth pass (almost finished) I looked at every particle in the text and it’s helped be get a better grasp of the different usages and shades of meaning of connective, attitudinal and scope particles. On my fifth reading I plan on looking at every preposition so I can learn some of unique ways they’re used (at least in Koine) and then after that I plan on reading the text again and studying all the subordinate clauses, and so on. My point is that the text is getting easier to read as I do this and I also get more familiar with the vocabulary. I may try to follow this approach with a chunk of the Anabasis when I return to it, probably after Christmas.
So making one’s own learning resources and utilizing repetition in various ways are good methods of cementing both grammar and vocabulary in one’s mind, I believe. My two cents 
Cheers,
Mitch