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A question arose from someone about while reading LGPSI, about the distribution between ἐστί and ἐστί(ν), specifically they noted that I sometimes (perhaps more frequently than expected), violated the general rule that movable nu appears before a subsequent vowel. Now, I happen to know intuitively that that rule is
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An excerpt from Homily II in Matthaeum (PG 57) ∆ιὰ τοῦτο διπλῆ γέγονεν ἡ γέννησις, καὶ ἐοικυῖα ἡμῖν, καὶ ὑπερβαίνουσα τὴν ἡμετέραν. Τὸ μὲν γὰρ ἐκ γυναικὸς γεννηθῆναι ἡμῖν συνέβαινε· τὸ δὲ μὴ ἐξ αἵματος, μηδὲ ἐκ θελήματος σαρκὸς ἢ ἀνδρὸς, ἀλλ' ἐκ Πνεύματος ἁγίου, τὴν ὑπερβαίνουσαν ἡμᾶς καὶ
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I've been trying to do some work to write up the kinds of things I aim to do in live classes, which is mostly to develop questions in Greek (or insert appropriate language here) about the text, as we go. I've adapted a lot from the
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After some consultation, I've finalised a list of courses for 2020. They are now available on the Online Courses page. Each of these courses will have carry on courses across 2020, for four terms of 10 weeks each. (e.g. Greek 101, 102, 103, 104 carry you through
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I'm full of initiatives at the moment. The idea for this one came from a friend, to be honest. "What if you read all the Geoffrey Steadman editions of Greek texts??" That's some solid Greek reading there in a very help format. That was
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You may have heard of 'the third year problem'. It's the problem of getting through two years of Latin, through 'all the grammar', and working out what to teach school students in order to transition them to 'genuine' Latin. It's
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Lately James Tauber and I have been collaborating (him doing lots of work, me coming up with new things to do) on vocabulary data. My particular driving interest was how to structure the writing of LGPSI to introduce vocabulary, from the start, that will build students towards a strong basis
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If you've been over to the main LGPSI interface lately, you'll see it's currently at chapter 12. Actually I have written up to chapter 16, but with a little delay in posting some of those until I've had at least an initial
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So, I had this idea, and floated it on Twitter, and now it’s time to make it real. What if we adapted NaNoWriMo for penning original Latin and Ancient Greek texts? When I mentioned this idea, a couple of people said they had done so in the past, and
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Even though it’s only… October, I’m at a point of reflecting on the year gone past. This year I took the initiative to move from only doing individual tutoring, to offering online classes. I’d experienced enough of them myself, knew what other people and groups were doing,
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Just because you have gifts doesn’t mean you’ll get to use them. I’ve taught this many times. But it’s not an easy lesson to learn. I remember clearly one particularly member of a church, saying to me after a service, that he wasn’t sure how
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I think (perhaps naively optimistic) that we’re on the cusp of a generational divide in Latin education. And this post is an attempt to help some on the ‘old’ side of that divide, cross over to the ‘young’ side. What I mean is this: In the last 20 years