REVERSE GREEK TEST THREE

 REVERSE GREEK TEST THREE 

#Classicalgreek #transliteration

This quote is from #Sophocles 

use it to test your students knowledge of the greek abc!

polla ta deina kouden anthroopou deinoteron pelei 

the kouden is kai ouden 

I will be posting a collection of these various quotes plus the greek originals on my metousia patreon

Reverse Greek Test Two

 REVERSE GREEK TEST TWO

#classicalgreek Greekalphabet #transliteration 

Here's something you can use to test yourself and students.

Why have I used the Englsih alphabet

Well apart from reminding people of how the poem SOUNDS you can use this and the other selections in the REVERSE GREEK TESTS series to test knowledge of the Greek alphabet and introduce students to Greek with a variety of short texts.

Deduke men a selanna                     (a = hee)

kai pleeiades mesai de 

nuktes para derkhet oora                    d(e) erkhet (i) 

egoo de mona kateudoo

This is part of a lost longer poem by a well known female poetess.

I'll be collecting all of these and compiling them into a pdf reader on my Metousia patreon

Reverse Greek Tests One

I said Ild revise basics in February and I had an idea for testing reading  basic greek ABG skills and introducing students to some texts

Heres the first one 

Meenin aeide thea peeleeiadeoo akhileeos

and if youre starting on lyric verse what poem is this from ?

Eelth eelthe khelidoon 

laotop tantrums are over

Last week I had just finished prepping something to post when my laptop had a major tantrum so Im behind AGAIN 

Anyway the laptop is working and Ild like to announce and remind you  that January and February posts are given over to reviewing Basics here and on the accompanying metousia patreon 

homonyms and homophones

Compared to English Classical Greek has far less homophones and homonyms. Moden Demotic Greek due to Iotacism is a whole other problem but Ancient Greek ... 

However there are a great many NEAR homonyms and homophones, words so similar the shift of an accent from one syllable to a following one can change the meaning.

The best known example is probably TI / tinos /tina 

meaning either any or some or an but also who or what .

There are others 

Words where aspirating an initial consonant is far more important than it is in English or a change of sound in a word shows it is  a different dialect or an older form.

Im compiling a list I will share on my Metousia Patreon soon 

can you guess where this was found ?

Can you guess where this was found ? 

Yes in Europe not Asia Minor or the Near East but somewhere where there were never Greek colonies and which was never part of the Byzantine Empire or one of the Diadochi realms?

Not in Italy or Greece and in a country where the majority language is NOT IndoEuropean ! 

Christmas Greetings

 I hurt my hand and I'm run

ning late on everything but I wish you all