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Hellênikê: an introductory course in ancient Greek

Encounter a historical language and culture, and engage with how that language and culture continue to shape structures of power today.

Overview

Hellênikê is an open-source introduction to ancient Greek. It emphasizes:

  • engagement with authentic texts from the first day of the course
  • connecting the experience of reading ancient Greek to students’ lived experience
  • a corpus-linguistic understanding of “Greek” as the language attested in a specified corpus
  • pedagogy informed by contemporary research in language learning

Status

The Hellênikê curriculum is being used in two sections of first-year Greek at the College of the Holy Cross in the 2022-2023 academic year. is in early planning stages.

Encounter a historical language and culture, and engage with how they continue to shape structures of power today.
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