Ancient Languages

Textbooks, books, channels in Latin, Ancient Greek, Hebrew etc.

There are way too many of those, so I’m planning to record the sources that influenced me personally.

Latin #

Textbooks #

Попов, А. Н. Пособие по латинскому языку для студентов-заочников. Москва: МГУ, 1951 г.

… (a few more textbooks that I don’t remember)

Подосинов, Щавелева. Lingua Latina, том I, II, III, IV-1, IV-2, V.

Books #

Channels #

Satura Lanx

Уроки древнегреческого и латыни

Ancient Greek #

“Grecque, sans laquelle c’est honte qu’une personne se die sçavant. Hebraicque, Caldeicque, Latine.”

“Tant y a qu’en l’aage ou ie suis iay esté contraint d’apprendre les lettres Grecques, lesquelles ie n’avoys pas contemné comme Caton, mais ie n’avoys eu le loysir de comprendre en mon ieune aage. Et voulentiers me delecte à lire les moraulx de Plutarche, les beaulx dialogues de Platon, les monumens de Pausanias, et antiquitez de Atheneus, attendant l’heure qu’il plaira à dieu mon createur me appeler et commander yssir de ceste terre.”

“Ientends & veulx que tu aprenes les langues parfaictement. Premierement la Grecque comme le veult Quintilian. Secondement la latine. Et puis l’Hebraicque pour les sainctes lettres, & la Chaldeicque & Arabicque pareillement: & que tu formes ton stille, quant à la Grecque, à l’imitation de Platon, quant à la Latine, à Ciceron.”

François RABELAIS. PANTAGRUEL. Chapitre VIII.

“Talk about learning ancient Greek and someone is bound to ask ‘Ancient Greek? What use is that?’ The answer, I suppose, depends on whether you think pleasure is useful. Being a joie de vivre man myself, I can think of few things more useful than pleasure, but I do not want to stop anyone being as miserable as sin if they so choose. As for ancient Greek being ‘dead’, that is the sort of claim made only by those ignorant of the language. I waste no more space on them. “

Peter Vaughan Jones (by the way, Daedalus’ brother)