<p>well their approx 65-70 majors (including me next year!) support that claim also!</p>
<p>Wow, haven't been around here for some time. Regarding summer Greek, I know a couple of people who did the intensive summer course at Berkeley (don't know how that works for high school/college), and raved about it. Said it was cheaper even though it might have been farther. One of my profs talked a lot about the one at Fordham, but I've never looked into that.</p>
<p>Sorry for bumping this so high, but I love this thread. Hi guys. If I <em>ever</em> get accepted to my unis, I'll be majoring in Classics too. I've had 8 years of Latin and 6 years of Greek. Can't wait to see how Americans pronounce any of the two, especially greek. <3 :D</p>
<p>enthusiast, terribly, especially latin.</p>
<p>thought so. I saw on wiki the differences between the original latin pronounciation, the english one and the slavic one. so very sad. :D</p>
<p>It should be noted that Italians (wrongly) believe that Latin was spoken/pronounced like Italian is today, and the Greeks believe the same about Ancient Greek Yeah, right, pronunciation hasn't changed AT ALL in over 2,000 years...</p>
<p>yes, I've heard a couple of Italians quoting [Chichero] and some Greeks reading boetheia as [voitia]. O_o</p>
<p>Finally! Some fellow Classicists! I’m currently a home-schooled high school freshman with 5 years of Latin. I’ll be finishing up Cambridge’s undergraduate Latin course in a few weeks and will be starting Greek soon after that. The Ancient World is my passion, and I’m really hoping to study it in university, hopefully at Harvard or Oxbridge. Any advice on starting Greek?</p>
<p>You Bet!</p>
<p>Start with one of the standard Attic Greek textbooks. At Penn we use Hansen & Quinn’s Greek: An Intensive Course. H&Q was designed to be used in one of those summer intensive courses where you do a full year in 6 weeks or so. As a result it is very compact but still covers everything you need to know before you start reading big chunks of literature. There’s quite a bit of information online.</p>
<p>The downside of H&Q is there is no official answer key - however, others have provided the first few chapters online and I’ve prepared the first 8 so if you choose H&Q you won’t be completely on your own.</p>
<p>Other oft’ used texts are Balme’s Athenaze and Introduction to Attic Greek by Mastronarde. Right now both seem to have rather spotty availability.</p>
<p>BIG IMPORTANT TIP - Greek accenting is crucially important (something you can mostly dodge in Latin, but be aware that when you take the placement test your first week of college, there will almost certainly be a chunk of poetry that you won’t be able to translate correctly unless you know your vowel quantities). So… If you use H&Q do not proceed until you can do the accenting exercises perfectly.</p>
<p>Relative Latin, Greek has a LOT of extra stuff in it that adds to it’s expressiveness and subtlety. The verb system is much more complex, there are 1000+ page books on particles, and yet somehow, they managed to survive without the ablative case 
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<p>And when you start Greek, don’t neglect your Latin - you should be aiming to read 125 or so standard lines (with commentary) per week by the time you’re applying to college (that’s about normal undergraduate level). At Penn in undergrad Latin we often used Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics editions, e.g. Plautus Casina, MacCary & Willcock, ISBN 0 521 29022 8 - they’re very often available a deep discounts online. My suggestion (because that’s what I do) is every month or so pick a couple hundred lines each of poetry and prose and work on something different every day. It’s also easy to copy and paste from the online Latin Library or Perseus and make yourself worksheets.</p>