CW's Ancient Greek and Latin language page
| quick links: Hermes Newton lookup.cam Faculty google.co.uk Perseus Wikipedia BBC |
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• IA Greek online testing syllabus here (.pdf) N.B. IA online Greek tests open till noon Sunday 22 January • IG online test here • Non-IG online test here • new random frequent word here • LT and ET timetables 2011–12 (pdfs) • updated information for prospective applicants on Classics at Clare; Classics at Caius (links) • recommended reading for prospective, incoming & current students in doc or html • OCR vocabulary materials here (link) • IA and IB 2011–2012 reading lists here (html) • Crito wordlists: alphabetical (pdf), by frequency (pdf), by part of speech (pdf); Quia.com activities here; iFlipr.com deck here • Odyssey 19 & 20 wordlists here (link) • how to type in Greek (pdf) • Greek letters on Mac OS X (pdf) • Greek letters on Windows (pdf) • how to install Gentium (link) • Unicode hex input (pdf) • guide to writing Cambridge "practical criticisms" here (pdf) • tips on writing Cambridge essays here (pdf) • style sheet for essays here (pdf)
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• Cambridge Ancient Greek language packs for incoming students: Intensive version here & Non-Intensive version here (large pdfs) • 45 critical principal parts: pdf Quia Quizlet • tables here (html pages) • verb-form maker & drills here • verb-form generator here • phrase generator here • Reading Greek vocabulary materials here — plus all 133 principal parts here • tense and aspect tables (pdf) • Michaelmas Term Greek principal parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (pdfs) • Lent Term Greek principal parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (pdfs) LT quizzes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 + 10 random forms (links to Quia.com) • Easter Term Greek principal parts 1, 2, 3, 4 (pdfs) • materials for Cambridge Classics Part IA Greek texts • materials based on Owen and Goodspeed's Homeric Vocabularies (plus "fighting words" material) • materials for language classes and supervisions • Greek verb synopses (pdf) • iFlipr.com digital flashcard materials: Attic εἰμί sum, εἶμι ibo, οἶδα Lysias 1 vocabulary (unaccented) • confusing Η and Ω words in Greek here (pdf) • Euripides frequency lists: top 1000 (doc or pdf) and 2nd 1000 (doc or pdf) most frequently used words in Euripides • 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 • try an online Greek crossword puzzle: easy verbs, Homeric verbs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
• Cambridge Latin language pack for incoming students here (large pdf) • 101 critical principal parts: pdf Quia Quizlet • tables here (html pages) • paradigm tests: adjectives, nouns, verbs • materials based on Kennedy's Latin Primer • new online flashcards: Cicero Pro lege Manilia Quia Quizlet iFlipr Vergil Aeneid 8 Quia Quizlet iFlipr • materials for Cambridge Classics Prelims Latinists • materials for language classes and supervisions • Latin verb synopses (pdf) |
links (some via subscription): lexica etc. LSJ/L&S LSJ TLL Numen Glossa Woodhouse Whitaker ND Engl.-Lat. texts etc. Perseus PhiloLogic TLG ChicHom LECTRIX PHI BREPOLiS thelatinlibrary bA MQDQ Tesserae NoDictionaries palaeography & epigraphy etc. PHI GI E-D CSAD Ancient Lives BL MSS Trismegistos InsAph reference & bibliography etc. OxRef Pauly APh JSTOR BMCR TOCS-IN CamComp CHO OED varia Diogenes Mastronarde Stoa The Digital Classicist Textkit Many Eyes |
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I'm Dr Charles Weiss and I teach for the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge and for Clare College (as Director of Studies) and Caius College (as External DoS), Cambridge. This website is intended for my students and for anyone learning Ancient Greek and Latin. Please e-mail me any corrections and comments—feedback welcome.
N.B. The Greek pages are best viewed in Internet Explorer for Windows 2000 & XP and higher, Firefox for PC & Mac, or Safari for Mac (all Unicode compliant—you may need to set the text encoding to Unicode in your browser to read Greek and you will need a Greek keyboard input, already installed in Windows XP and Mac OS X.4 and higher, to type Greek—click here for instructions).
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