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Ancient Greek Picture Dictionary - Read online for free. This is a highly first draft of a picture dictionary for ancient Greek. There are lots of features missing, which I do have locally but am not ready to share quite yet. The idea here is that one can create a visual tool for a language that has not traditionally had such tools. The other idea is that this tool can be made using authentic materials (i.e. pictures of locations and cultural artifacts that directly relate to ancient Greece).

This app brings all 116,000 definitions of the Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek-English Lexicon to your iOS device, with blazing speed, smart searching algorithms, and a unique "reverse search" system that turns the LSJ into an English-Greek dictionary. Features: - Full offline dictionary reading, presenting auto-generated short definitions of every word backed up by the full LSJ entry. - A powerful search mechanism lets you type in English, Greek or Beta Code to find words. The English search system uses heuristics to return highly accurate search results, even when accent and breathing vary. - A unique "reverse search" system lets you query the English definition of each word. For example, searching for "rock" returns "πέτρα". This effectively turns the LSJ into an elementary English to Greek lexicon, backed up by all the copious referencing and detailed usages that the LSJ offers. - Includes a guide to getting started with Beta Code, which allows you to search for precise orthography. - Full support for iPad and iPhone - buy the app once and use it anywhere. - Did we mention that it was really, really fast? At last you can search the entire LSJ in a fraction of a second! This is our latest app for classicists on the App Store - be sure to check out our range of Latin apps for iPhone and iPad at www.romansgohome.com!

I am sure that you will agree with me that, with the economic crisis on the one hand and the digital revolution on the other, every advertising professional has the right to feel like a HERO. Therefore I will use the greatest hero of the past as an example for the future.

Portraits such as these are some of the most poignant surviving artifacts from around the time of, but not beyond, the 3rd century, in which the dead, such as they were, were painted and immortalized on planks of wood or other surfaces which sometimes covered the face of their mummy. It is generally accepted that this style of portrait was in vogue in the Greek colonies within Egypt, which gradually phased out with political, religious, and economic change. It is a fascinating spotlight in that period of Egypt's history, where the clear separation between the Greek and Egyptian portraits began to mingle and reveal citizens of mixed ancestry, combining Greek and Egyptian features in their faces.

GapVis is an interface for exploring and reading texts that reference ancient places. It includes maps and data visualizations that show what locations are referred to a different points in the narrative and allows you to dig into the details to learn more.

A few years ago I was taking a tour of a dome shaped house, and the architect explained to me that domes are an optical illusion. Whenever someone enters a room, their eyes inadvertently glance up at the corners of the room to give them the contextual dimensions of the space they're in.

ToposText is a new interface that links readers and travelers to Europe's most ancient literary culture and to the Greek landscape that inspired it.  TT presents 5000 places relevant to the ancient Greek world -- ancient cities and shrines, medieval castles and towers, modern museums and excavation sites -- primarily in Greece but including major places from Spain to the Caucasus. It links those places to the ancient authors who wrote about them in Greek or Latin. A large classical library married to an up-to-date gazetteer, freely available as a mobile application or this web site.

A sample of Linear B script, the earliest Greek writing, 1450 BC, and an adaptation of the earlier Minoan Linear A script. This piece contains information on the distribution of bovine, pig and deer hides to shoe and saddle-makers. It is a script made up of 90 syllabic signs, ideograms and numbers, a form earlier than that used for the Homeric poems. These clay tablets were fortuitously preserved when they were baked in the Mycenaean palace of Pylos fire 250 years later.

Associations in the Greco-Roman World: A Sourcebook (= AGRW). Using tools in the right sidebar, you can browse or search a growing online database of inscriptions and papyri about associations, immigrant groups, and guilds in the ancient Mediterranean, including many documents that do not appear in the book (marked with an asterisk*).

To the ancient Greeks, every mystery in nature could be explained by the whims, passions and peculiarities of the gods. This episode features three favorite nature myths: - The Myth of Persephone, in which Hades, the god of the underworld, abducts the beautiful young Persephone, thereby plunging the earth into a permanent state of icy winter. It takes the great Zeus to negotiate a deal between Hades and Persephone's distraught mother, resulting in the arrival of spring, and the ongoing cycle of seasonal changes. - Echo & Narcissus, in which a talkative nymph loses her heart to the handsome Narcissus, only to discover the young man only has eyes for himself. - Helios, in which a brash young man named Phaethon borrows his father's sun chariot and finds out the hard way that pulling the sun across the sky each day is easier said than done.

This paper reports on a flipped design for teaching ancient Greek in a theological college. Students lear the basic content through online videos and actividites and them atteded a two-weeks intensive ti ubteract with faculty and peers. Studentes were satisfied with the online resource and agreed that it had helped them prepare to learn Greek     erw eeii

Customize your tombstone below and press the "Make the tombstone!" button. Your custom tombstone will be shown containing the text that you entered. What should you put in your custom tombstone? It's up to you! The only limit is your imagination. Make your own custom tombstone  

The new project of Ultramundum Foundation: the Time Machine Visor, a virtual binocular that lets you explore the past of the place where you are. Here a sample exploration with the Time Machine Visor of the square of the Colosseum, in 320AD at the peak of roman empire.

This site brings together a number of resources that are available for the study of epigraphic texts. 

The chariot race from BEN-HUR: A TALE OF THE CHRIST (1925), remains one of the most riveting pieces of cinema ever produced - so much so that it was used as a blueprint for the now better known one in the 1959 version. The 1925 version was first reissued to theaters in 1931 with a synchronized music and effects track - as can be heard in this excerpt. (fair use for educational and informational study)

This is a small project that a Latin II class of mine started a few months ago dealing with the role of classical languages in the history of medicine, and which I am going to have a few other classes contribute to over the next few months.  

... understand, read, speak, and write Latin, the "immortal language" that built the Roman Empire and continues to influence us to this day...

To increase your word knowledge, type in an English word, or words that appear normally as a group; for example, pain, or visual pollution, or atmospheric electric field to find their definitions and Latin and/or Greek meanings OR type in English words that are derived directly from Latin and/or Greek sources; for example, android, or electron probe microanalysis to see any available definitions.

This blog is a glossary of words and phrases that I thought useful for conversational Latin.

A visual arts lesson for 6th graders, that introduces Greek Black-Figure pottery and allows them to create a drawing of a vase. Tipo de recurso: Clase de SMART Notebook