The AcademyἈκαδήμεια
Plato's school, founded in the early 4th century BC in the grove of the hero Akademos outside Athens. This is where you learn.
Begin with Lesson 1: Letters into sounds →
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The 24 letters τὰ γράμματα
Tap a letter to see its name and hear how it sounded. marks the seven vowels: α ε η ι ο υ ω.
Lessons
- 1Letters into sounds γράμματαRead Greek words aloud, and meet your first line of Homer.15 min
- 2Breathings, accents and punctuation τόνοι καὶ πνεύματαThe little marks above the letters: which matter now and which can wait.15 min
- 3Who does what: the idea of case πτώσειςGreek shows each word's job with its ending, not its position.20 min
- 4The article: ὁ, ἡ, τό τὸ ἄρθρονThe commonest word in Greek, and your best guide to every noun's case.20 min
- 5Second declension: λόγος, δῶρον ἡ δευτέρα κλίσιςThe -ος and -ον nouns: one set of endings for thousands of words.20 min
- 6First declension: ψυχή, χώρα, δόξα ἡ πρώτη κλίσιςThe -η and -α nouns, nearly all feminine.20 min
- 7The verb "to be": εἰμί εἰμίI am, you are, it is: the commonest verb, and a first taste of verb endings.15 min
- 8Verbs: the present tense ὁ ἐνεστὼς χρόνοςλύω, λύεις, λύει: six endings you will meet on thousands of verbs.20 min
- 9Hearing Homer's rhythm: the hexameter ἑξάμετροςLong and short syllables, six feet to a line, and the pause in the middle.20 min
- 10Prepositions: from, in, to προθέσειςSmall words of place and direction, and the case each one takes.20 min
- 11Adjectives: agreement and position τὰ ἐπίθεταἀγαθός, ἀγαθή, ἀγαθόν, and why "the good man" and "the man is good" differ only in word order.20 min
- 12Third declension: φύλαξ, σῶμα, πόλις ἡ τρίτη κλίσιςThe biggest family of nouns: find the stem in the genitive.25 min
- 13The past: imperfect and aorist παρατατικὸς καὶ ἀόριστοςThe augment ἐ- marks the past; the imperfect paints a scene, the aorist tells what happened.25 min
- 14Middle and passive: λύομαι μέση καὶ παθητικὴ φωνήBeing freed, and freeing for yourself: the two other voices of the Greek verb.25 min
- 15Participles: verbs that work as adjectives μετοχήλύων "freeing", λύσας "having freed": how Greek packs a whole clause into one word.25 min
Practice and reference
Today's session
A few minutes a day: your flashcards, one ending, one real sentence.
τὰ γράμματαThe alphabet
Every letter: how to write it, its name, and how it sounded.
ἀνάμνησιςDaily review
Flashcards that come back just before you would forget them.
ἄσκησιςPractice
Quick drills on endings, and parsing real words in real sentences.
παραδείγματαTables of forms
Every standard declension and conjugation, searchable and checked against real texts.
λέξειςVocabulary by frequency
The commonest words first, and how much of a text you can already read.