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Greek grammar
http://www.greekgrammar.com/
This web page, created and maintained by Marc Huys, a professor of Ancient Greek at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), provides detailed comments on all kinds of online resources on the ancient Greek language. It contains ten sections or subpages (note that some of the reviewed websites may be listed in more than one section): Greek fonts; the alphabet, numerals, accentuation and pronunciation; introductory language courses; elementary training; dictionaries and lexica; systematic grammar - morphology and syntax; history of the Greek language; advanced study of the language; the reading of ancient Greek texts; other online surveys and bibliographies. This website intends to support anyone teaching or learning ancient Greek; and at the same time to "show that the study of this 'dead language' is more alive than ever before".
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Into his own : perspective on the world of Jesus
http://virtualreligion.net/iho/
'Into His Own' focuses on the historical study of Jesus and the New Testament. It consists of a number of primary texts in translation, including extracts from the works of Josephus and Tacitus, and from the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Talmud, and the Mishna, on the political, social and religious situation in 1st-century Palestine. In addition to the primary material, these pages offer information (including maps) on the historical sites and sources on which this study is based. Thorough and scholarly, but still aimed at an audience of non-experts, this resource is an excellent teaching and introductory research tool.
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Laboratorio informatico per le lingue antiche
http://snsgreek.sns.it/ENG/lab.htm
The website of the Laboratorio Informatico per le Lingue Antiche (LILA) provides information about their software 'SNS - Greek and Latin'. The software is for Macintosh computers, and enables the user to search two important data banks of classical writing: the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae; and parts of the Packard Humanities Institute's bank. The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae contains ancient Greek texts ranging from Homer to authors in the fifteenth century A.D. The Packard data banks available to users are PHI #5.3, containing classic Latin texts, and PHI #7, containing Greek documentary papyri and inscriptions. The software provides the user with a fairly sophisticated search engine, catering for Boolean logic operators, special characters, and restrictions by various bibliographic factors. Results may be exported in different text formats.A single-user licence costs around 150 Euros. A free demonstration version of the software may be ordered from the site, although this allows access to a limited selection of the texts. The site also allows users to subscribe to the SNS mailing list.
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Papyrus Egerton 2 homepage
http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~wie/Egerton/
The papyrus Egerton 2 is a fragment of an unknown gospel, dated between 150 and 200 CE and found in Egypt in the 1930s. This home page is a private site published under the University of Bremen Web pages, containing high quality images of the Egerton 2 papyrus, with full transcription and translations into English and German. The author has also provided a brief history of the papyrus and the scholarly debate it has provoked, information on its palaeography and a discussion of its canonical parallels. Finally, this resource holds an extensive bibliography and a number of online secondary sources.
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Quasillum
http://www.quasillum.com/
Quasillum is an excellent resource for those involved in the study of ancient languages; it is a website which hosts online Latin and Greek study groups. These are in the form of mailing lists, to which users subscribe (at no cost); each consists of several smaller study groups, led by a co-ordinator who sets a study agenda, collects and collates assignments and then leads an online discussion about the assignments. The Latin and Greek lists each provide something for a range of abilities, from the beginner to the more experienced linguist. Anyone may join or leave a study group at any time. This is a good way for those studying the ancient languages independently to feel part of a wider learning community.
The LatinStudy list looks at classical, medieval and Neo-Latin authors. It uses Wheelock's Latin Reader as a textbook but also has at any one time several groups devoted to reading various ancient texts (for example, Cicero, Livy or Tacitus) in the original language.
The GreekStudy list has fewer active sub-groups: these look at Biblical (New Testament Greek) as well as classical (Attic) Greek. Information is also provided about using Greek fonts (in Unicode and Betacode).
As well as the study lists, the site also provides access to Unicorn, a simple text editor and dictionary program for use with Latin, Hebrew and ancient Greek. This is freeware which requires that users have Java software in order to download it.
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Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
http://www.tlg.uci.edu/
This is the website of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG). The TLG is a research centre at the University of California, Irvine. The work of the centre revolves around the publication in electronic form of a corpus of extant Greek texts from Homer to the present day. The centre has already published on CD-ROM an extensive corpus of texts spanning the 8th century BC to 600 AD together with further works up to the 1453 (the fall of Byzantium). To date, it includes most Greek texts written between the 8th century BC and AD 600, and also historiographical, lexicographical, and scholiastic texts composed between 600 and 1453. In total, it contains over 9000 works by 400 authors. Work is underway to include all known Byzantine and post-Byzantine Greek texts. The current edition of the corpus (edition #E) contains 6625 works from 1823 authors (a total of 76 million words of Greek). Future plans are to make the TLG texts available over the Internet. A demo site is open to the public (click on the link 'Try out the Online TLG'). The demo site provides the complete Canon of Greek Authors and Works and the same search capabilities as the full version with a representative selection of texts. The TLG texts are available as beta code, which encodes the Greek alphabet, including accents and diacritical marks, with ASCII characters. This means that the CD-ROMs can be used on most computers. However, to access and use this material a second program is needed. In addition, one may need to load particular Greek fonts in order to view the texts in Greek. Some suitable packages include: Lector; Lexis; Musaios; Pandora; SNS Greek & Latin; TLG Engine; and Workplace Pack. Texts in the TLG can be accessed through its Index or Canon, which categorises works by author, epithet, title, incipit, genre, date, geographical place of origin, dialect (and more). Most of the search programs make use of this Index for text retrieval. The TLG Index or Canon is available in print (Berkowitz and Squitier 1991). The TLG's website contains information about the project and the people involved; a list of authors whose works are available within the corpus; a guide to the Beta code, used for transliterating ancient Greek into ASCII characters; addenda and corrigenda to the printed Canon of Greek Authors and Works (Oxford, 1990); and full information on obtaining and using the TLG corpus.
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