Leonard muellner professor emeritus of classical studies at brandeis university and belisi gillespie phd candidate at uc berkeley have posted 64 videos on youtube which when taken together present all the content covered in two semesters of a college level introduction to ancient greek course.
How long to learn attic greek.
The greek alphabet and pronunciation.
So many students go straight to biblical greek bypassing attic the greek dialect prevalent in and around athens during the time of aristotle plato and the like.
It is essential then to learn the basic inflections of these parts of speech.
Attic greek in school it is very easy to study koine or read the new testament.
The textbook used is hansen hardy and gerald quinn.
Buy the book or request an exam copy.
Mastronarde s introduction to attic greek.
Actually over time the language simplified as many languages do the the later koine is simpler than earlier attic.
If attic greek is the horse and koine greek is the donkey well septuagint greek is something of a mule.
You can guess what happened.
This is a no holds barred approach to ancient greek written by a professor who got tired of seeing students coming to graduate school with huge gaps in their basic knowledge.
After answering the above questions to your own satisfaction then you ll be in a better position to figure out how long it will take you to learn greek.
The greek alphabet was taken over from the semitic as used in the phoenician area which in turn was based on an egyptian alphabet.
So now take a closer look at the tables below.
He wrote a book that filled those gaps.
Here s the thing the new testament was mostly written in a type of greek known as koine this is an easy greek for the most part a low style.
Having studied classical i e.