Greek Reporter

Homer’s Greek Was Never a Spoken Language, Yet It Lives on in Modern Greek

Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in ...
Greek Reporter

What Did Ancient Greek Sound Like?

Reading like the lyrics to a popular song or poem from modern times, ancient Greek poems have prompted new insights into spoken language.
Discover Magazine

It Was Rare, But Ancient People Sometimes Needed to Translate Languages — Here's How

We don’t know how language first began. The first writing didn’t occur until around 3200 B.C.E., and we know that spoken language came before that. Some experts contend that it started with hand ...
Boston College

Ancient Language Teaching and Graduate Reading Groups

Boston College offers coursework and hosts reading groups in the languages of the Bible, Church Fathers (Patristic Texts), ancient Greece and Rome both for graduate and undergraduate students. Anyone ...
The New Yorker

An Instant Classic About Learning Ancient Greek

When Andrea Marcolongo’s book “La Lingua Geniale,” subtitled “9 ragioni per amare il greco” (“Nine Reasons to Love Greek”), came out in 2016, I bought it, in Italian, and took it with me to Greece. I ...