Free Resources

This is a list of our favorite (mostly) free resources for learning Ancient Greek.

Dictionaries – Λεξικά

• Logeion: Multiple dictionaries, Greek and Latin>English, “wheel” and “inverse” functions.
• LSJ.gr: Many dictionaries (English, French, Spanish, German, …), including Woodhouse and Frisk Etymological
• Woodhouse: English-Greek Dictionary: Quick English>Greek (Attic).
• lexica.linguax.com: Latin > Greek / Greek > Latin dictionaries (Hedericus & Schrevelius)

For a comprehensive list of Ancient Greek dictionaries check this link from Schola Humanistica

Grammars – Γραμματικά

Charts & Parsing

• Lexigram: Morphological Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Greek (7 euros a year, but it’s worth it).
• Wiktionary: Charts for pretty much any Ancient Greek word (even includes long/short signs for vowels)
• Greek Word Study Tool (Perseus): Gives a grammatical analysis of any Ancient Greek word form

Grammar Books Online

• Juan Coderch – Classical Greek: A New Grammar Greek Grammar Taught and Explained, with Examples
• Herbert Weir Smyth – A Greek Grammar for Colleges
• Wilfred E. Major and Michael Laughy – Ancient Greek for Everyone. Essential Morphology and Syntax for Beginning Greek

Grammar Exercises/Drills

• https://pandionis.com/ (online)
• LP Ancient Greek (Android & IOS)

Vocabulary

• The 500 Most Common Ancient Greek Words: a frequency list by “Dickinson College Commentaries”, based on all Greek texts until 200 AD; you can read more about the methodology here

Greek Keyboards – Πλῆκτρα

Android & iOS

Hoplite Polytonic Greek Keyboard (Android & IOS)

Mac & Windows

Mac and Windows have a Greek Polytonic Keyboard option under Greek in Keyboard settings, but combinations for diacritics vary by device.

Ιn a word processor (like Microsoft Word, or an equivalent) you can add more signs than a keyboard allows by inserting “special characters”. Go to “Insert”, click “Symbols/Special characters” (usually with a Ω sign), select “More…” then search for “combining” symbols. This will allow you to write all the combinations you need (including length + diacritics + iota subscript).

Online

If you don’t have a keyboard installed, you can type in Greek on this homepage: https://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/greek_ancient.htm

Videos – Θεάματα

• τρίοδος trivium: Our own YouTube channel, in Ancient Greek, of course.
• AGROS education: Short poems explained in Ancient Greek by Michael Kopf. (YouTube)
• Koine Greek: Content for Koine Greek immersion (specially New Testament Greek)
• Alpha with Angela – YouTube: Series of videos in Biblical (Koine) Greek
• Luby’s Lessons: Backyard Ancient Greek: Fun videos in Ancient Greek. (YouTube)
• Polysophia: Comprehensible input
• Paideia Media: Talks, lectures, conferences, etc. Greek and Latin. (YouTube)
• The Polis Institute Jerusalem: Talks, lectures, conferences, audio books in AG.

Audios – Ἀκούσματα

• Podium-Arts: Audio books in reconstructed pronunciation by Ioannis Stratakis.
• Bedwere: Audios of handbooks and some original authors in AG
• Julius Tomin: Works of many of the major Greek writers read aloud in the original Greek

Texts online –Λόγοι

• archive.org: A great collection of digitized books. To find Greek texts search for the Latin name of the author (in the genitive) + “graece”, e.g. “Platonis graece“.
• Perseus: Extensive collection of Greek texts with parsing and dictionary tools.
• Diogenes. Οpen source tool for searching and browsing databases of ancient texts. Like Perseus, bigger corpus.
• Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG): Most extensive corpus of Ancient Greek literature (in the paid version), with search function

Biblical Studies

• Accordance
• Logos (free “academic” package available)
• Blue Letter Bible App (parallel texts)
• bibelwissenschaft.de: free access to the Greek New Testament (Nestle/Aland), the Vulgate, and the Septuagint

More texts and resources at

• Geoffrey Steadman: Greek and Latin Texts with Facing Vocabulary and Commentary – Habits Matter
• Faenum Publishing: An independent publisher of Classical texts and commentaries
• Juan Coderch: Greek texts in “Ørberg style”
• Claire Mieher’s Readings: Short embedded readings/glossed texts texts.
• Loebolus: List of old (and free) Loeb editions available on the internet.
• Neophytos Doukas: Monolingual Greek editions of texts with paraphrases and notes.

Caveat: Doukas’ paraphrases of poetic texts are in Attic prose, but the paraphrases of Attic prose are in Katharevousa.

See also: Other Text Tools | Harvard Department of the Classics

Books or articles on learning languages we like and try to adapt when teaching or learning AG:

• Common Ground: Second Language Acquisition Theory Goes to the Classroom
• How to Keep Your Language Alive: A Commonsense Approach to One-on-One Language Learning
• Bringing back the body into the mind: gestures enhance word learning in foreign language
• Spoken Ancient Greek and Latin Today: an overview and some reflections | Federico Aurora

Videos on learning languages we like and try to adapt when teaching or learning AG:

• Learning a language by reading stories: How To Learn a New Language With Stories
• Shadowing: Shadowing Step by Step
• Include the body in the learning process: Video Library – Where Are Your Keys
• Extensive reading: How to use Extensive Reading & Audiobooks to become fluent | 7-Step Ranieri Re-Reading Technique

This list has been put together by John James, Jenny Teichmann, and Rogelio Toledo.