ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANCIENT GREEK LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS (EAGLL) (Leiden – Boston: E.J. Brill 2013) Teaching of Ancient Greek, Teaching Methods By V. Tsafos & P. Seranis (original) (raw)

An introduction to ancient Greek philosophers and litterateurs

Anthology of ancient Greek authors (in Greek). Athens: Giourdas, 2006

The anthology of ancient Greek texts that you have in your hands is a useful guide for your access to the intellectual works of the Attic period of Greek literature, since it suggests subjects of study, which can be studied as such in depth, but also in parallel with the other thematographies and with the best-known texts of the time and it is possible to serve both informatively and critically. It expands your knowledge of the Attic orators, historians and philosophers of the period, and your familiarity with the Attic dialect of the ancient Greek language, with a range of new words and etymological information. You can use it in your lesson to cultivate students' self-activity, their ability to judge and evaluate educational goods, develop their aesthetic literacy and good supervision of the length, size and weight of their written works of the Attic period, in the genres of rhetoric, philosophy and historiography. The structure of the anthology allows you to make your approach flexible, depending on each text and author. You can, therefore, give small factual introductions, concerning the meaning, the cultural and ideological elements, and the motivations of the persons. Very important is the overview regarding the synchronic connections between the various texts, but also the timeless significance and interpretation of their content. However, each text is a whole of its own meaning and the reception of the ideas and information it offers is possible by focusing on its structure and content. We examine both the elements of form and the individual linguistic elements, in the function that exists between them. Editorial comments reveal the entire structure of the text, focus on its content, and reveal the author's temperament.

A Study on Ambiguity: Pedagogy and Creation in Ancient Greek Culture, Education and Drama

Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science

Paidagogos and demiurgos are two terms of the ancient Greek language already present during the first millennium B.C. and still in use in contemporary Greek [1]. The purpose of this paper is to examine the changes in their meaning according to context in which they are used – intellectual, artistic and social – and to the areas in which they appear, as well as the obvious or latent relation between them. Both the terms paidagogos and demiurgos are not one-dimensional in ancient Greek language. The semiotic tool of ambiguity, via the analysis of Jean Pierre Vernant and Page du Bois, tested through a contemporary phenomenological lens based on Merleau Ponty [2], will help us interpret the changes in their meaning, as well as the reasons why such changes may occur. In poetic, historical, political, pedagogical and other ancient texts, the terms paidagogos and demiurgos can refer to persons with very different functions and social status. The ambiguity and the reversal of the status of ...

Reflections of Antiquity in the Greek Education of the 20th Century

Social Change Review, 2010

The aim of this article is to examine the educational theories and practices of ancient Greece, to investigate a few of the explicit links that the modern Greek state has made to these and to discuss some of the more implicit parallels that can be discerned in the present Greek educational system. To some extent, it will be an investigation of the contemporary traces that remain from the ancient civilisation. Furthermore, it will be examined how the Modern Greek state achieves political ends through its attempts to embody in the citizen the reconstructed values of a glorious past, while characteristics of ancient Greek educational systems, still existing in the Modern Greek educational system, will be discussed.

Ancient Greek for Kids: From Theory to Praxis

Journal of Classics Teaching

This essay presents the methods, as well as the pedagogical effects, findings and results of introducing Ancient Greek in the curriculum of children between three and 12 years old as evidenced over 27 years in the method of Elliniki Agogi. Elliniki Agogi is an award-winning private educational institute established in Greece in the mid-1990s at a time when the teaching of Ancient Greek was questioned and dramatically reduced from the public curriculum. Its aim is to safeguard learning that has its roots in Ancient Greek and to continue to introduce students to the Greek civilisation and its language, using effective, entertaining and artistic methods. This endeavour was based on specific pedagogical models; by learning through experience and through a communication-orientated educational process. With concomitant, cautious organisation and preparation of each lesson a diversified educational curriculum is created that connects the students to their distant past while experiencing po...

The Representation of Modern Greek in Ancient Greek Textbooks

Journal for Foreign Languages, 2020

Focusing on Agnello and Orlando (1998), Elliger and Fink (1986), Weileder and Mayerhöfer (2013), Mihevc-Gabrovec (1978) and Keller and Russell (2012), I discuss attempts at introducing elements of Modern Greek into teaching its ancient predecessor. My analysis, which is based on the etymologies of LKN (Λεξικό της Κοινής Νεοελληνικής), shows that approximately half of the words in the textbooks investigated in this study retain the same written forms and meanings in Modern Greek as in Ancient Greek; the term word in this analysis subsumes headwords introducing lexical entries. On the other hand, words with the same written forms and different meanings in Ancient and Modern Greek are significantly less frequent, accounting for 5 to 11% of all words in the textbooks. Furthermore, these textbooks contain between 12 and 16% of words that retain the same meaning in Ancient and Modern Greek, and also show significant formal change. As a result, their written forms are different in Ancient ...

Teaching Modern Greek to Classicists

Keria: Studia Latina et Graeca

The ideology of decline is a part of the history of the study and characterization of the Greek language from the Hellenistic period and the Roman Atticist movement right up to the emergence of katharevousa in the 19th century and the resulting modern diglossia. It is also clear, however, that there is an overwhelming presence of Ancient Greek vocabulary and forms in the modern language. Our position is that the recognition of such phenomena can provide a tool for introducing classicists to the modern language, a view that has various intellectual predecessors (e.g., Albert Thumb, Nicholas Bachtin, George Thomson, and Robert Browning). We thus propose a model for the teaching of Modern Greek to classicists that starts with words that we refer to as carry-overs. These are words that can be used in the modern language without requiring any explanation of pronunciation rules concerning Modern Greek spelling or of differences in meaning in comparison to their ancient predecessors (e.g.,...