CW's Ancient Greek and Latin language page

quick links: myCam .cam Moodle CamSIS CamCORS CL link to Quizlet iDiscover Classics .cam eresources lookup.cam Faculty cam.ac.uk TLG PHI Perseus LCL LatLib Pauly Attalus Smith's bio. geo. antiq. Wikipedia lexica Brill's IEDO IEDO via Raven Chinese-English dictionary OxRef via Raven OSO OSEO OED via Raven JSTOR via Raven archive.org Collins Merriam‑Webster

News etc. Ancient Greek Latin

2024 diagnostic tests (1A students only)

• Cambridge Intensive Greek diagnostic test (closes 6pm Wednesday 9 October); practice test here

• Cambridge Non-Intensive Greek diagnostic test (closes 6pm Wednesday 9 October); practice test here

• Cambridge Latin diagnostic test (closes midnight Saturday 12 October); practice test here

these tests may be taken anytime before the deadlines

ready for a new Classics?

basic reference works for the Classical world

Anthon's Smith New Classical dictionary (1860)

Némethy's Dicta Catonis

Mommsen's Res gestae

old Loeb Res gestae

• an introduction to Latin for incoming Cambridge Prelims here (videos)

• an introduction to the Latin subjunctive for incoming Cambridge Prelims here (videos)

• an introduction to Ancient Greek and Roman poetry here (videos)

• my JRS review of Latin textbooks through the ages here

• my Odyssey textbook:

Weiss Odyssey textbook cover

find on CUP or amazon.co.uk

some useful Unicode characters (html); find Ancient Greek characters at the bottom of this column; Wikipedia list; MS Office shortcuts

Cambridge Ancient History first edition in pdfs (link to folder)

• major body parts in Ancient Greek and Latin on Quizlet


• summary of metamorphoses in Ovid's Metamorphoses from Lemaire's edition here (html)

• guide to writing Cambridge 'practical criticisms' here (pdf)

• Ancient Greek & Latin numbers 1-20 Quizlet here

• Chinese (pinyin) & Ancient Greek numbers 1-20 Quizlet here

• Chinese (pinyin) & Latin numbers 1-20 Quizlet here

• Jane Ellen Harrison on verbal aspect here (pdf)

Loebolus (link to Loebs in the public domain)

• Ancient Greek and Latin metrical feet flashcards (Quizlet.com link)

• Latin animals Quia Quizlet

• Ancient Greek antonyms and word-pairs here (Quia.com link)

• Ancient Greek key noun phrase generator here

• try a short poem (AG 5 & Cat.)

• clause shuffler here

• incremental reader here

• random frequent word here

• information for prospective applicants on Classics at Clare (link)

• recommended reading for prospective, incoming & current students in doc or html (html updated)

• OCR vocabulary materials here (link)

Crito wordlists: alphabetical (pdf), by frequency (pdf), by part of speech (pdf); Quia.com activities here;

Odyssey 19 & 20 wordlists here (link)

how to type in Greek (pdf)

Greek letters on Mac OS X (pdf)

Greek letters on Windows (pdf)

how to install Gentium (link)

Unicode hex input (pdf)

• tips on writing Cambridge essays here (pdf)

• style sheet for essays here (pdf)

 

• Cambridge Ancient Greek language packs: Intensive version here & Non-Intensive version here (large pdfs)

• tables here (html pages)

• 133 principal parts here (html page)

• Goodwin's catalogue & Smyth's catalogue (html pages)


download as pdf




• Lysias 1 vocabulary lists (docx) alphabetical, by frequency and by part of speech


Henri-Joseph-François Triqueti's 1865 intarsia of Homer reciting on Delos

• Grote's History of Greece (click image for link to pdfs)

• common Attic words Quizlets 1-1000 here 1001-2000 here

• imperfect or second aorist? BrainRush here

• Chandler's accents here (large pdf)

• Riddell's Apology and 'digest of Platonic idiom' (p. 124 ff.) here (large pdf)

• Yonge-Drisler English-Greek Lexicon here (large pdf)

• Monro's Iliad commentary (link to pdfs)

• Ancient Greek alphabet BrainRush with voice or without

• understanding Ancient Greek principal parts PowerPoint here

• 45 critical principal parts: pdf Quia Quizlet

verb-form maker & drills here

• verb-form generator here

• phrase generator here

Reading Greek vocabulary materials here

tense and aspect tables (pdf)

paradigm tests

materials based on Owen and Goodspeed's Homeric Vocabularies (plus "fighting words" material)

Greek verb synopses (pdf)

• confusing Η and Ω words in Greek here (pdf)

• Euripides frequency lists: top 1000 (doc or pdf) and 2nd 1000 (doc or pdf) most frequently used words in Euripides

• Cambridge Latin language pack here (large pdf)

• tables here (html pages)

• 400+ principal parts here (html page)


download as pdf




Ingres' Vergil reading the Aeneid: click image for Hirtzel's OCT

• GCSE wordlist Quizlets with extras or simplified

sortes Vergilianae (Aen. 1)

• Conington & Nettleship Vergil commentary here

• Tacitus Annales 1 running vocabulary here (pdf) text here (docx)

Louis Jacoby's 1863 sketch of Mommsen

• Mommsen's History of Rome (click image for link to pdfs)

• fifty dates from Roman Republican history here (Quizlet)

• Smith-Hall English-Latin Dictionary here (large pdf)

• Mueller's Pro Caelio (pdf)

• Ovid's Metamorphoses 4 vocab on Quizlet here

• BrainRush regular & irregular verbs

In Catilinam 1 prezi

In Catilinam 1 vocabulary flashcards Quia Quizlet

• Latin noun phrase generator here

• 101 critical principal parts: pdf Quia Quizlet

• paradigm tests: adjectives, nouns, verbs

materials based on Kennedy's Latin Primer

verb conjugation quizzes

• online flashcards:

Cicero Pro lege Manilia Quia Quizlet

Vergil Aeneid 8 Quia Quizlet

Latin verb synopses (pdf)

Latin unseens

links (some via Raven):

lexica etc. LSJ/L&S LSJ TLL ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ philolog.us LEXILOGOS Cunliffe via TLG Numen Glossa Woodhouse Whitaker (PC only?) ND Engl.-Lat. Du Cange Dizionario Etimologico Trésor de la Langue Française informatisé The Bridge (vocab lists)

texts etc. Perseus PhiloLogic LCL Poesia Latina bibliotheca Augustana TLG van Thiel's homerpur (full unaccented text of the Iliad and Odyssey in pdf) the Chicago Homer PHI BTL CETEDOC thelatinlibrary MQDQ Tesserae NoDictionaries

palaeography & epigraphy etc. PapPal PHI GI E-D CSAD Ancient Lives BL MSS Trismegistos InsAph papyri.info CIL AIO MAMA XI BL MSS

reference & bibliography etc. OxRef Pauly DCM APh (scroll to it) JSTOR BMCR TOCS-IN CamComp CHO OED LacusCurtius

varia Diogenes Mastronarde Stoa The Digital Classicist Textkit DMRE Arachne aoidoi silva rhetoricae OHCGL Greek Myth Comix

I'm Dr Charles Weiss and I teach for the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge and for Clare College (as Director of Studies, Lecturer, Tutor and Fellow), Cambridge. This website is intended for my students and for anyone learning Ancient Greek and Latin. Please e-mail me any corrections and comments—feedback welcome.

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