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Deep reads on Greek, Latin, and Byzantine worlds. For people who want more than Wikipedia.
Πᾶσι καὶ πάσαις!
🟧 GREEK READER. We have Added 8 new chapters from Rouse’s textbook (ΙVε — IVμ), thus fully completing his Section 4! Most o...
We’ve released a new chapter from Book 1 of Herodotus’ Histories!
More to come! 😎🔥 --- ὁ ἔχων ὦτα ἀκροῶ — AKRO
Πᾶσι καὶ πάσαις! To the virtues of Rouse’s textbook mentioned earlier, we can add one more, no less significant: proverbs. We counted 9 proverbs for different situations in life — and tried to find equivalent Russian sayings using Dahl’s collection. But if you can think of sharper or more expressive ones, feel free to share them with us in the comments under the same post on Telegram!
1. οὐ σῦκον σύκῳ ὁμοιότερον (Chapter IVε). Literally: no fig is more like a fig. — From the same nest, yet the chicks are n...
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Πάσι καὶ πάσαις!
Earlier we promised to talk about the undeniable advantages of Rouse’s textbook (despite the many years that have passed si...
Πάσι καὶ πάσαις! We’ve prepared a short video walk-through of our app, showcasing the features that are fully available to you today. The video is already up on our official Telegram channel!
🟧 That said, our interface is so—so to speak—user-φίλος that you can figure it out on the first try, purely by intuition. S...
Πάσι καὶ πάσαις! Despite the enduring strengths and charms of Rouse’s textbook, it was, of course, not equipped with the full range of teaching and self-study tools that prove so effective when they are both varied and well integrated.
🟧 This gap—more than 100 years after the publication of A Greek Boy at Home—was addressed in 2014 by the Spanish philologis...
Πάσι καὶ πάσαις! Why Herodotus was among the first authors to enter our library is quite obvious; far less obvious is our choice in favor of Mimnermus—about whom we would now like to say a few words.
🟧 A native of Smyrna in Asia Minor (fr. 9), Mimnermus reached his ἀκμή in the 630s BCE. He probably wrote two books: the po...
Πάσι καὶ πάσαις! Ancient Greek lived on the papyri of the libraries of Alexandria, lives in the desk-bound labors of classical philology, and will live on — now in the virtual world!
We’re excited to introduce AKRO — the world’s first educational platform for learning Ancient Greek. 🟧 Our goal is to bring...