CW's Greek and Latin language page
| News | Greek | Latin |
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• Part IA and IB exam schedule here • NB new Latin unseens collection • NB Latin paradigm tests are online again • confusing Η and Ω words in Greek here (pdf) • guide to writing Cambridge "practical criticisms" here (pdf) • Lent Term Greek principal parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (pdfs) • Michaelmas Term Greek principal parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (pdfs) • new Odyssey 19 online vocabulary drills here; wordlists: running order, alphabetical, by frequency (pdfs) • new Odyssey 20 online vocabulary drills here; alphabetical wordlist here (pdf) • new Many Eyes materials here • Euripides frequency lists: top 1000 (doc or pdf) and 2nd 1000 (doc or pdf) most frequently used words in Euripides • Plato's Ion wordlists by frequency and part of speech (pdfs) • Troades wordlists alphabetical or by frequency or part of speech (pdfs); Quia activities here • Iliad 1, 3, 6, 21 & 24 wordlists alphabetical or by frequency or part of speech (pdfs after WordHoard) or guess a random word from the lists here • IB IG Iliad wordlist doc or pdf • Odyssey 9 wordlists alphabetical or by frequency (pdfs); revised Quia activities here • Odyssey 10 wordlists alphabetical or by frequency (pdfs); Quia activities here • wordlist for Herodotus 1.1–35 (36–70 coming soon) (pdf) • vocab list for In Cat. 1 & 2 alphabetical or by frequency (courtesy Tim Hill—in HTML: be sure to set your browser's text encoding to Unicode); Quia activities here • vocab list for Aeneid 9 alphabetical or by frequency (courtesy Tim Hill—in HTML: be sure to set your browser's text encoding to Unicode); Quia activities here • vocabulary lists for all Cambridge '07–'08 IA Intensive Greek texts: alphabetical or by frequency • vocabulary lists for '08 exams here • Lysias 1 wordlists here • try an online Greek crossword puzzle: easy verbs, Homeric verbs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 • Ion vocab tester online; wordlist doc or pdf |
• a brief guide to Greek grammar (under construction) • paradigm tests (under construction) • materials based on Reading Greek (including lists of principal parts) • materials based on Owen and Goodspeed's Homeric Vocabularies (new "fighting words" material) • materials for Cambridge Classics Part IA Greek texts • materials for language classes and supervisions • Greek verb synopses (pdf) |
• a brief guide to Latin grammar (under construction) • paradigm tests: adjectives, nouns, verbs • materials based on Kennedy's Latin Primer • materials for Cambridge Classics Prelims Latinists • materials for language classes and supervisions • Latin verb synopses (pdf) |
links (some via subscription): Perseus LSJ/L&S TLG CLCLT CSAD thelatinlibrary.com Diogenes ChicHom LECTRIX Mastro BMCR APh JSTOR Pauly OxRef TOCS-IN CamComp Stoa The Digital Classicist Woodhouse Whitaker Textkit |
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I'm Dr Charles Weiss and I teach for the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge and for Clare College, Cambridge. This website is intended for my students and for anyone learning Greek and Latin. Please e-mail me any corrections and comments.
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