Lexicity/Ἑλληνική Greek
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Ἑλληνική Greek
Dictionaries
Resource | Description |
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Liddell-Scott-Jones Online | Just call it "The Lexicon." Enough said. |
Perseus Project | Word entry is a bit more difficult here. Also, I'm sometimes not clear on the differences in function and purpose between the TLG online and the Greek side of the Perseus Project. |
Marcion Database | Mainly for the study of Coptic, but contains a searchable Greek dictionary. |
New Greek-English Lexicon to the NT | An older book. |
Theological Dictionary of the NT | #50 on this list of documents. The download is a .chm file; search online for information about how to open it. You normally use a web browser. |
English-Greek Dictionary | Woodhouse's English to Greek Dictionary, part of the University of Chicago library. |
Ancient and Modern Greek Dictionary | Both English to Greek and Greek to English. |
Liddell and Scott PDF | A massive download. A bit unwieldy to use but will probably be useful for some. |
Woodhouse PDF | Again, a very large download, but may be useful for some. |
Greek and Latin Dictionary | For the true classicist! |
Archimedes Project Dictionary | Difficult to use. |
English-Greek Dictionary | A vocabulary of the Attic language. |
A New Greek and English Lexicon | ...which is now almost 200 years old. |
Strong's Online | For both Hebrew and Greek. |
Hellenistic Greek Course Lexicon | For use with the Hellenistic Greek online course. |
1000 Common Greek Words | "So arranged as to be most easily learned and remembered." |
Pocket Lexicon of the Greek NT | A useful resource. |
Lexicon to Herodotus | A bit difficult to search, but good for reading Herodotus. |
Handbook of Greek synonyms | Useful for writing Attic prose and poetry when you really need to woo with style. |
Greek Etymologies | A very useful resource for tracing word histories. |
Some Greek Etymologies | A much smaller resource with more description. |
Dictionary of Greek Proper Names | In German. |
Principles of Greek Etymology | From reviewer NikosJohnson: "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Thanks, Nikos. |
Greek-French Dictionary | Words are in the left column, definitions in French. |
Greek-Italian Dictionary | You can click to enter Greek letters. |
Vocabulaire Classique | French, English, modern and ancient Greek. |
Greek-German Dictionary | Also very old. |
Dictionnaire Etymologique | Greek etymological dictionary in French. |
Dictionnaire Etymologique 2 | Older than the one above. |
Illustrated Dictionary to Anabasis | For use with the first four books of Xenophon's Anabasis, which you can find below. |
Glossary of Greek Birds | Is that a dissertation I smell? |
Semantic Study of Greek Bird Names | Really. It's in French, unfortunatey. |
Grammars
Resource | Description |
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Smyth's Greek Grammar | Purportedly written in blood; this particular edition contains no actual Smythian blood, however. |
Goodwin's Greek Grammar | Pro: comprehensive. Con: not written in blood. |
Comparative Greek Grammar | A medium-sized PDF file. |
Grammar of Attic and Ionic Greek | See the language in a wider spectrum, according to the description. |
Compendious Greek Grammar | For the use of schools and colleges. |
The Greek Grammar | THE Greek Grammar. |
Grammar of the Septuagint | "Selections from the Septuagint" for some. |
Systematische Grammatik der grieschen Sprache | For our friends the Germanicans. |
A Greek Grammar | William Watson Goodwin. |
Greek Grammar | Also for schools and colleges. |
Dialects of Northern Greece | How much blood did he have? |
A Greek Grammar: Syntax | From Gustave Simonson. |
A Greek Grammar: Accidence | The companion piece to the one above. |
Syntax of Classical Greek | From Homer to Demosthenes. |
Syntax of the Greek Language | Especially of the Attic dialect. For the use of schools! |
Syntax of Moods and Tenses | Watson's back with this great book. |
A Brief Greek Syntax | Subtitle not so brief. |
Sounds and Inflections of the Greek Dialects | He falls upon the thorns of Greek! He bleeds! |
Grammar of the Greek NT | In light of historical research. |
Grammar of New Testament Greek | Written in 1905. |
Classical Greek Lessons | From the University of Texas. |
Ancient Greek Tutorials | Various tools, also available as a download package. |
Hellenistic Greek Online | Many lessons, and useful for the classroom. |
User-Friendly Guide for Ancient Greek | A number of useful PDF files with readings. |
NT Greek Online Courses | With videos, quizzes, and other useful materials. Some is forthcoming. |
Learn NT Greek Online | Navigation links are on the left side. |
Greek Courses Online | Courses of different difficulty; there is an ancient Greek course at the very bottom, as the rest are modern Greek. |
Learn Greek Online (French) | Many different sections, though it's really more of a reference in some places. |
Biblical Greek Online (French) | Has other resources as well. |
Intelligent Person's Guide to Greek | If you're an idiot, stay away from this site. |
Brief Intro to NT Greek | A good introduction. |
Greek Prose Composition | See also the answer key below. |
Greek Prose Composition Key | For the textbook above. |
Moods and Tenses of NT Greek | Lots of good explanations and examples. |
Ted Hildebrandt's Greek Aids | Scroll down the page to find an NT Greek textbook and other useful items. |
Greek Grammar Review | "Let's review Greek!" "Gee, thanks! Don't mind if I do!" |
Introduction to Ancient Greek | Some self-study resources and good quiz materials. |
Greek Grammar Topics Online | Various posts and explanations. |
Introduction to Greek Prose Composition | Has a key, below. |
Greek Prose Composition Key | For use with the above textbook. |
First Greek Writer | Another composition textbook. |
First Greek Writer Key | Answer key for above textbook. |
Lectures on Greek Prose Composition | Learning to write in an ancient language actually really improves your grammar skills. |
A First Greek Course | Not THE first Greek course. |
A Short Syntax of NT Greek | Not as complicated as the other kind. |
First Greek Book | Still a strange way to title things. |
First Greek Grammar Accidence | An older term, not very common these days. |
First Greek Grammar Zyntax | We misspelled "syntax" on purpose in order to make the title more interesting. |
Homeric Greek for Beginners | Not the easiest way to begin, to be sure. |
Introduction to the Language and Verse of Homer | "D'oh!" "Why you little!" "Mmm...donuts..." , etc. |
NT Greek in a Nutshell | Must be a pretty large nut. |
Learning New Testament Greek | A very, very old site. |
A Minimum of Greek | A very nice subtitle, as well. |
School Grammar of Attic | From 1902. |
The Beginner's Greek Book | From 1898. |
Elementary Greek Grammar | The guy's middle name is Watson, and the book has "elementary" in the title. Too obvious. |
A Student's Greek Grammar | From 1882. |
A Greek Grammar for Beginners | This one hails from 1873. |
Short Grammar of the Greek NT | Only for students familiar with the elements of Greek. |
First Greek Grammar | Not in the whole world, I don't think. |
Buttmann's Greek Grammar | "Buttmann" really needs to be a more common surname these days. |
Homeric Greek Grammar | Homeric Greek is, in my opinion, much more difficult than Attic. |
Greek Verbs, Irregular and Defective | The verbal system is usually the hardest aspect of learning Greek. |
First Greek Syntax | Again, probably not the first one in existence, ever. |
Grammar of New Testament Greek | Buttmann! |
A Reading Course in Homeric Greek | A PDF file of the first 24 or so chapters; presupposes a background in grammar that not all students will have, though. |
Charts & Aids
Resource | Description |
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Helma Dik's handouts | Excellent charts, including a great verb chart. |
Karl Maurer's handouts | A long set of handouts for learning Greek. |
Compact Greek PDFs | Contains a great deal of information. |
Greek Morphology Summary | Also looks very useful. |
First-Year Review | With a text from Xenophon. Has commentary and is very useful! |
Basics of the Verbal System | An HTML page. |
Greek Particles | A list of particles used in Plato. |
Accenting Greek Verbs | How the recessive accent rule is applied. |
Accenting Enclitics | The rules for accenting enclitics. |
Accenting First Declension Nouns | Only first declension here. |
Prolegomena to Self-Study of Homer | "Step 1: search for nearest mental institution." |
On Reciting Ancient Greek | For some classicists, this is an absolute art. |
Study guide for Plato's Apology | Includes grammar, vocabulary, and quiz materials. |
Texts
Resource | Description |
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Greekt NT Online | Various versions of the text online. |
Judeopedia | A French site with a very convenient side-by-side Bible with Hebrew, French, English, Latin, and Greek. Can also produce PDF files. An excellent site. |
SBL Greek NT | A critical edition in a very nice file. |
Greek NT with conjugation and analysis | You can also search for words by grammatical categories. Simply excellent. |
Greek NT with grammatical analysis | Extremely useful site. |
Greek NT Reader | An online reader with lots of options and different editions of the Bible. Contains definitions of words. |
Septuagint Online | Links are in the middle of the page; the LXX is on the left, and the NT on the right. |
Septuagint downloadable files | In djvu format, so you'll need a viewer. Very nice copies of the work. |
Septuagint in HTML and .doc format | Link for the .doc file is at the bottom of the page. With a more recent version of Word you can create a PDF file from this. |
Multilingual Bible Program | Contains the Church Slavonic, Greek, Latin, French, and German texts of the Bible, plus others. A wonderful program. You must enter a password to install it. To get the password, visit http://yegor.info/bible and email the proprietor. He will respond quickly with the password. Don't wait, get it now! |
Greek NT Online with concordance | Find a passage and click a word to see all of its uses. A great tool! |
Septuagint Online with concordance | Based on the same database as above. An excellent resource. |
Greek NT and French translation | Easy to use. |
Septuagint and French translation | Very access to navigate through the LXX. |
Greek NT Manuscript Comparison | Allows you to pull up various editions of the Greek NT in order to see similarities, differences, changes, and the like. Very useful. |
Another Greek NT | Site has an obnoxious login, but can be very useful. |
Biblos Scripture Text | Choose a passage to view in a number of languages. Contains an embedded lexicon. |
Blue Letter Bible | Another multilanguage biblical comparison tool. |
The Unbound Bible | Bible texts online in many languages with parallel viewing. |
Codex Sinaiticus | The oldest complete copy of what we know as the New Testament. |
Interlinear Greek/English NT | Easy to use and navigate. |
Online Greek Reader | For biblical and non-biblical texts alike. Very fun to use! |
Library of Ancient Texts Online | Links to many other sites with old Greek texts. |
Perseus Project | For instructions on how to use the Perseus Project website, see our how-to page. |
Introduction to Greek and Latin Epigraphy | For absolute beginners. |
Searchable Greek Inscriptions | A really great site. |
Harvard Digital Papyri | The collection of the Houghton Library. |
Aphrodias in Late Antiquity | Lots of inscriptions available to view. |
Greek Epigraphy Resources | A collection of various sites. |
Bibliotheca Augustana | Many Greek manuscripts online. |
Duke Greek Manuscripts Online | Descriptions with images and other information. |
Greek Poetry Online | Very nice PDFs with commentary. An excellent site. |
Oxyrhyncus Papyri Online | A searchable database, though not with access to everything. |
Herculaneum Papyri Facsimiles | Another searchable database. |
Greek Texts Online - Alpheios | Is a good beginning, but difficult to use, at least for now. |
Testament of the 12 Patriarchs | All in Greek. |
Texts from Greek Church Fathers | Quite a large collection of Greek texts online from various church fathers. |
Life of Adam and Eve | A critical edition in Greek. Search this page for "life of adam and eve." |
Greek Manuscripts Online | Many links to scans of original copies. |
Online Greek Reader | For biblical and non-biblical texts alike. Very fun to use! |
Greek abbreviations used in manuscripts | Can be very confusing if you don't know what they are. |
Greek ligatures | A "ligature" is a combination of two letters in a manuscript. |
Papyrology Resources Online | Links to more websites, some of which are featured on the Greek main page. |
More Papyrological Resources Online | An Oxford site which features links to many databases and projects. |
Greek Texts Online | There are better places to get what you need. |
First Four Books of Anabasis | By Xenophon. See the illustrated dictionary in the partial dictionaries section. |
Book XII of the Odyssey | In Greek. |
Easy Selections from Plato | A very good author to begin advanced study. |
Apology of Socrates | A good text to learn more advanced skills. |
Homer PDF texts | Not sure how complete this is, but includes line and book numbers. |
Searchable Variants in Homer | Looks like a cool site here. |
Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound | Dramatic works tend to be more difficult than philosophical works. |
Selections from Herotodus | See the lexicon to Herodotus in the dictionaries above. |
Iliad Books XIX - XXIV | In Greek. See more Homer below. |
Odyssey Books V - VIII | See above for more Homer, plus the Homeric grammar in the grammars section. |
Anabasis Book VI | By Xenophon; see more of his work above. |
Aesop's Fables in Greek | With illustrations. |
Other Resources
Resource | Description |
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Ancient History Sourcebook | For many different languages. |
Washburn's Biblical Languages | Lots of resources for Biblical languages and study. |
Voice of the Shuttle Classics | An extensive library of resources for the study of the classics. |
Sites of Interest for Classicists | A list maintained by the University of Chicago library. |
Catalogue of Internet Resources for Philology | Site is in German. |
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities | A classical encyclopedia from a long time ago. |
Checklist of Old Text Editions | Papyri, ostraca, and tablets. |
Guide to Greek Lexicography | Discussions of many different topics. |
Suda Online | Guide to Byzantine lexicography. |
Theoi Greek Mythology | Great for information about the theoi (gods) and mythology. |
Women and Gender in the Ancient World | Essays, images, links, and an extensive bibliography. |
The Amphoras Project | A site dedicated to old, ceramic storage containers. |
Ancient Greece | A great collection of many different topics. |
Art in the Mediterranean | With pictures of items from around the area. |
Photographs of Ancient Greece | In color and black and white. |
Theoi Greek Mythology | Great for information about the theoi (gods) and mythology. |
Materials for Sparta Study | See also the bibliography. |
The Knossos | A very interesting archaeological site in Greece. |
Sport in Greek Antiquity | Another good bibliography. |
Encyclopedia Mythica | For different kinds of mythology. |
Aegean Prehistoric Cultures | A series of lessons and other resources. |
Bryn Mawr Classics Review | An excellent site with reviews of works in the classics. |
Digressus | An online journal for the classical world. |
Electronic Antiquity | Communicating the classics. |
Phoenix | An online journal from the Classical Association of Canada. |
TOCS-IN | Table of contents for journals that are of interest to classics studies. |
Scholia | Studies in classical antiquity. Older editions available online. |
Histos | An online journal for ancient historiography. |
Studia Humaniora Tartuensia | An online, international journal for classical studies. |
Museum of Archaeology Online | From the University of Michigan. Some really cool online exhibits. |
Bibliography of Hellenistic Greek Linguistics | A very good bibliography with links. |
The Beazley Archive | A division of Oxford dedicated to the study of classical art. The site includes many old photographs. |
Free National Greek Exam | For use by professors and teachers. |
New Observations on Voice | A very technical piece of work. |
Homer in a Changing Tradition | Taking on the Homeric Problem. |
The Musical Pitch Accent in Greek | When you're passionate about pronunciation. |
Oral Reading of Greek | With audio, and texts read out loud. |
Didaskalia | The journal for ancient performance. |
Trajan's Column | Everything you ever wanted to know about it. |
A Compendium of Greek Phonology | You'll need to know something about phonetics to understand this. |
Alexander the Great Bibliography | Includes ancient sources. |
Greek and Roman Women Bibliography | A very brief one. |
Ancient Lives Project | Participate in cataloguing papyri! |
Stoa Consortium | For digital classicists everywhere. |
Greek Language and Linguistics | By Michael Palmer. |
En Epheso | Studies in Greek Language and Linguistics. |
Hypotyposeis | Sketches in Christian Origins. |
rogueclassicism | A blog dedicated to classical things. |
NT Discourse | Removing the mystery from discourse grammar. |
NT Resources Blog | New Testament-related discussion, but also material about the grammar. |
Attalus Greek and Latin Online | Links to translations of many different classical texts. |
Audio-Visual Database of Classics Resources | A searchable site with many good results. |
The Greeks, and the Parthenon in 3D! | Fun to play around with. |
Classics Poetry Readings | Just the best. |
Homer In Performance | More stuff, read aloud! |
Homer aloud...with lyre! | Ah, those halcyon days...or were they elysian? |
Mythology in Theater | An overview of how mythology has influenced the performing arts. Thanks to Elizabeth and her daughter for the pointer! |