Ancient Greek computer learning resources.

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Does anyone know of some good ancient Greek computer-based or online (open source, creative commons or otherwise free) learning resources?

I am specifically looking for vocabulary, with ancient Greek and English word pairs.

I have found a couple for the flashcard program Mnemosyne (which I do not like) and have imported one into a format compatible with the flashcard program Parley (which I do like) and also KWordQuiz and KHangman. Pretty much any format of vocabulary or dictionary will be of use so long as it has ancient Greek paired with English.

If anyone is interested, I put some links together with some Parley files.

you can get a rosetta stone to learn regular greek.i dont know how close that is to ancient greek.

How about the Antikythera Mechanism?The ancient greeks weren't quite in the web era unfortunately.

have a look at this:
http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/euclid/Elements.pdf

Euclid's Elements with English and Greek side by side.

ruveyn

Thanks, Ruveyn. It really warms my heart to see people like Richard Fitzpatrick making material like this available. The lexicon at the back of the book is also available as Lexicon.tex in Book99 of the source tarball (http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/euclid.html) for anyone who wants to extract the Greek-English pairings. I will put them into a KDE vocabulary file because that will be a fun diversion from philosophy and religion texts.

You might want to check out certain Christian Book sellers for texts and software that is for learning Koine Greek. The New Testament was written in Koine or "common" Greek
of the Ancient world.

This differs from Attic Greek which is what Plato and Aristotle wrote in.

ruveyn

Not close at all. I'm from Greece and when I was in school at some time, one of the teachers told us a story of a foreign person that had come to Greece. Fluent in Ancient Greek. That foreign person started to speak to the Greeks and they didn't understand a word. Because children in high schools and senior high schools learn Ancient Greek there are teachers who know Ancient Greek (some basics). As I interpreted it, some of those teachers collaborated to "decrypt" what the foreigner said!

The teacher thus tried to tell us what a shame that a foreigner had learnt more about the ancient Greek language than "us Greeks". Then he ranted on about all the countries that he said were full of students who know Ancient Greek much better "than us".

Anyway a bit of background. Greece has a civil war and had a dictatorship from 1968-1973(about that time). We also have a problem with both we and Turkey having hostile relationships so we put almost all the money of our tax-payers to buy things for the military. I think that not even 1% goes to education. That could be an explanation why there is little education here in Greece. Now with the economic crisis I'm not sure if we can expect improvement? We can always hope, and there's no reason we should think in a negative way. To survive one needs to have hope and think in a positive way.(regardless of difficulties)