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Iliad Pronunciation Guide

Posted in Classics, Greek and Latin and General Classics Resources on Sunday, 27 January 2008 | No Comments »

Iliad Pronunciation Guide, for the Richmond Lattimore translation

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Classic Audiobooks

Posted in Classics on Sunday, 27 January 2008 | 1 Comment »

Appearing on my mp3 player (courtesy of the good folks at Librivox.org)

Aristotle, Poetics (Ingram Bywater translation)
Homer, The Iliad (Samuel Butler translation)
Homer, The Odyssey (Butler translation)
Plato, The Apology (Benjamin Jowett translation)
Plato, Euthyphro (Jowett translation)
Plato, Ion (Jowett translation)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War (Richard Crowley translation)

Other:

Dante, The Divine Comedy (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translation) [in Italian]
Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation [...]

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Links to Greek Texts

Posted in Classics, Greek and Latin and General Classics Resources on Friday, 23 November 2007 | No Comments »

The Little Sailing: Links

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Latin & Greek Study Groups

Posted in Classics on Tuesday, 17 July 2007 | 1 Comment »

Wanna learn Greek and/or Latin by email, for free? Check out: Latin & Greek Study Groups.
Back in the 1999-2000 timeframe I took part in some Latin email learning. It’s great stuff. I highly recommend it.

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Plato’s Complete Works Online

Posted in Classics, Philosophy on Saturday, 23 June 2007 | No Comments »

The Hellenophilic Ellopos.net site has a webpage devoted to Plato, from which you can access Plato’s Complete Works. They also have a bilingual anthology of portions of Plato’s works which is not only available online but is downloadable. One of the downloads is the entire Greek Timaeus (along with the LXX Genesis and [...]

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Eusebius, Chronicle

Posted in Church Fathers, Classics, Patristics Sources on Friday, 8 June 2007 | No Comments »

Try your hand at open-source translating: Eusebius, Chronicle

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Forgotten Classics

Posted in Classics on Friday, 8 June 2007 | 1 Comment »

Some podcasts of classic written works, novels and such:
Forgotten Classics

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The Latin Language Learning Podcast from London

Posted in Classics on Wednesday, 6 June 2007 | 1 Comment »

You can subscribe in several ways, including, of course, iTunes: LATINUM

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Good Stuff

Posted in Classics, Patristics Sources, Scripture on Monday, 28 May 2007 | 4 Comments »

Through bibliacalia comes the following links:
Link to a site with the Greek text of Josephus with commentary. Way cool.
And this post on a second century canon of the Old Testament listing (gasp!) some of the “Apocrypha.”

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Some Readings “Solutions” (or One Possibility) for Chase and Phillips

Posted in Classics on Tuesday, 24 April 2007 | No Comments »

If you wanted help with some of the readings in Chase and Phillips’ grammar, then this site offers some links for chapters 3-16.
An interesting site over all.

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Personal Tips on Getting Back Into Shape, Greek-wise

Posted in Classics on Thursday, 12 April 2007 | 4 Comments »

If you’re like me, you may have spent 3 three years in Greek classes in college, and used Greek fairly extensively in your pastoring, but once you don’t have a sermon or Sunday school lesson to prepare regularly (and perhaps sometimes not even then), it becomes easier and easier to leave the Greek behind.
But you [...]

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Herodotus’ Account of the Battle at the Pass of Thermopylae

Posted in Classics on Thursday, 22 March 2007 | 12 Comments »

For you 300 fans (whose ranks I hope to join soon once I see the flick), the account of the Battle at the Pass of Thermopylae.  From Herodotus’ The Persian Wars (Bk VII.201-234)
[7.201] King Xerxes pitched his camp in the region of Malis called Trachinia, while on their side the Greeks occupied the straits. These [...]

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Classicist Victor Davis Hanson on the Movie “300″

Posted in Classics, Movies and Pop Culture on Thursday, 22 March 2007 | No Comments »

VDH’s Private Papers::History and the Movie “300″
300, of course, makes plenty of allowance for popular tastes, changing and expanding the story to meet the protocols of the comic book genre. The film was not shot on location outdoors, but in a studio using the so-called “digital backlot” technique of sometimes placing the actors against blue [...]

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This Is, Well, Classic

Posted in Classics on Thursday, 7 December 2006 | 1 Comment »

Aristotphanes complains “Today’s Audiences Just Don’t Get Me“:
What has happened to the comedy crowds these days? Can you tell me that? I don’t know what it is, but I just can’t seem to connect at all with the average audience. Seriously, folks, what is the problem here? I’ve been doing this a whole lot longer [...]

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Me Want!!

Posted in Classics on Wednesday, 1 March 2006 | No Comments »

I’m really really behind the times, but I just discovered the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. (More here. And there’s UNC/Chapel Hill’s Ancient World Mapping Center.)
But at $375 retail, methinks I’ll need either a winning lottery ticket (anyone have one handy I could have?) or a very wealthy (or foolish, [...]

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