Online group learning
Twice-weekly classes of no more than 8 students, aiming to teach the foundations of Latin, strengthen students’ active linguistic abilities, and improve their reading and writing fluency. Classes are usually available at all levels.
We have three terms each year, and you can sign up for single terms or for the whole academic year. Details of individual courses can be found lower down on this page.
Term dates for the academic year 2022-23
Timetable (all quoted in UK time)
Courses Offered
Beginners
This course is designed for students who have had very little or no exposure to Ancient Greek. By reading Athenaze and interacting with the teacher in spoken Ancient Greek, and doing supplementary reading and listening out of class, students will gain a firm grasp of the rudiments of the language without relying on an intermediary language as a crutch. Among other topics, students will learn the first three declensions of Ancient Greek nouns (and adjectives inflecting in the same way), understand basic sentences, directions, and instructions in Ancient Greek, and be able to greet accurately, answer and ask basic questions, and produce a range of basic Ancient Greek sentences. The course leader will provide primary course materials at no extra cost.
Course material: Athenaze (Italian version) Chapters 1-5; Assimil Ancient Greek; Saffire & Freis Ancient Greek Alive.
Pre-Intermediate
This course is designed for students who know most of Greek grammar and have a good range of vocabulary. By reading Athenaze, interacting with the teacher in spoken Ancient Greek, and doing supplementary reading and listening out of class, students will gain a firmer grasp of the language without relying on an intermediary language as a crutch. Among other topics, and the end of this course, students will have learned about indirect discourse, the genitive absolute, and be familiar with the present, future, imperfect, and aorist tenses; All of the three declentions and comparison of adjectives will be covered. In addition, students will be able to understand simple Ancient Greek speech when it is spoken with some repetition and rephrasing, and will be able to describe in simple terms aspects of their past, environment and matters related to their immediate needs and perform routine tasks requiring basic exchanges of information. The course leader will provide primary course materials at no extra cost.
Course material: Athenaze (Italian version) Chapters 6-16; Assimil Ancient Greek; Saffire & Freis Ancient Greek Alive.
Intermediate
This course is designed for students who know most of Greek grammar and have a good range of vocabulary. By reading Athenaze, interacting with the teacher in spoken Ancient Greek, and doing supplementary reading and listening out of class, students will gain a firmer grasp of the language without relying on an intermediary language as a crutch. Among other topics, and the end of this course, students will have learned about aorist and future (including irregular paradigms), be familiar with perfect and optative, conditional clauses and all the irregular declensions and a broad range of basic and intermediate Greek vocabulary; In addition, students will be able to understand more complex Ancient Greek speech when it is spoken with some repetition and rephrasing, and will be able to describe in simple terms aspects of their past, environment and matters related to their immediate needs and perform routine tasks requiring basic exchanges of information. The course leader will provide primary course materials.
Course material: Athenaze (Italian Version), Chapters 17 - 21; Assimil Ancient Greek; Saffire & Freis, Ancient Greek Alive.
Schola Poetica: Getting to Know Greek Poetry
This course will see students reading Ancient Greek poetry by authors spanning more than 1000 years, from Homer through to less well known Byzantine poets such as Joannes Geometres, alongside passages from Greek literature that illuminate their meaning and significance. We will see how all these authors are part of a poetic tradition that, despite the passage of so many centuries, changed much less than the historical context within which the authors lived. Students will be gradually introduced to the arts of memorisation and recitation, thus enabling them to enjoy the tradition from within. As well as starting to recognise intertextual references, they will start to pick up subtle allusions and common themes and language, all the while learning to read ancient poetry the way it was designed to be read: out loud. All discussions will take place in Ancient Greek.
Each class will last two hours, with a 10-minute break after the first hour. The first hour will be spent becoming acquainted with the vocabulary and themes of the poems to be discussed in the second hour, and reading some short relevant passages from ancient authors. The second hour will be dedicated to reading the poems, learning about their metre and diction, and paraphrasing parts of them in simpler Greek.
Previous ability in speaking Ancient Greek, or at least an excellent good command of Greek grammar, is essential for this course.
Teacher: Vladimir Cherulea (Vladimirus Dacoromanus)
Pricing
Students may enrol for one term at a time, or take advantage of discounted prices and sign up for two or three terms:
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