Watch the video for my reasons for learning classical Greek!
Why do you love ancient Greek??
Why learn Ancient Greek?
Posted by, helenmcv
on 16th January 2020
on 16th January 2020
on 16th January 2020
Watch the video for my reasons for learning classical Greek!
Why do you love ancient Greek??
Hi Helen
Surprisingly I’m quite busy at present working on my Latin for A Level for summer 2021, but I would love at some point to take my Greek further (it’s about O Level standard).
Please would you put me on your distribution list even though I’m unable to do any Greek at present.
Best wishes
Allan Brown
Hi Allan, email me on helen@helenmcveigh.co.uk and I’ll add you to the list. Hope all is going well with the Latin 🙂
Helen
Whilst I always scored well at school, I found my self being perpetually bored and never doing any work. When I started Classical Civilisation at A-Level this all changed. I was extremely interested in the content, and I put scored my other courses by almost 20%. I then went on to study Classics at University, where my love for the Greek world continued to grow, and I now hope to apply for a Masters degree in the coming year to study the Greek world further and to hopefully create a career out of this passion.
hi Helen – I am 78 years old and am teaching myself Ancient Greek. I love it, but find it very challenging. I enjoy working out the meanings of the words and hope to continue until I can read some of the marvellous works available to us. I have already taught myself Latin and am now revising it as well.
I have two degrees in anthropology, loved archaeology and thought I would pursue a career in that, but I have so many other interests that I eventually went to library school and became a university subject librarian (spec. history and
English). I just retired from that most fulfilling career. Working on campus, I was able to take classes in Greek (1 and 1/2 years) and pursue masters degrees in both Anthro and English. I really want to continue with Greek, but am not sure I have the discipline to do much more than an occasional “refresher.” As a University Librarian, I wrote a couple of articles on Jane Ellen Harrison and published an annotated bibliography on the Cambridge Ritualists (JEH, GM, FMC, and AB Cook) now available online – https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00011402/00001 . Would like to write more on them and finish an article on Murray’s translations of Euripides and take a few refresher classes in Greek but, even though i am retired, I’m busier than ever. COVID-19 has meant that I homeschool two grandchildren and take care of elderly parents. If not this time, maybe in the future. I think it is wonderful that you are providing this service.