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  1. ...have you seen the Brocade Goddess blog? http://brocadegoddess.wordpress.com/exhibition/ Fabulous!
  2. I know this is an old post, but thought you might still be looking for a few ideas, Erica. A handful of not-to-be-missed jazz (blues/ragtime/stride/boogie-woogie/Dixieland) artists from the early part of the century (i.e. active by 1930 at the latest): Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, Scott Joplin, Fats Waller, Eubie Blake, Meade "Lux" Lewis, Art Tatum, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong (my kids insist on calling him MR. Louis Armstrong, thank you very much!:)). A book you might like is Burton Peretti’s "Jazz in American Culture." Not jazz, but a great piece of American classical music from the early 20th century is Charles Ives’s Second Piano Sonata (the "Concord"; written ca. 1910-15). The quintessential voice of the Great War was the Irish tenor John McCormack (and he took American citizenship in 1917, so you can include him!). "Roses of Picardy" will make you weep... Now I’ll see if I can post this without the computer eating it this time....grrr.... Best, HG
  3. Just thought I'd pop in a few more miscellaneous links: http://www2.latech.edu/~bmagee/latin/latin_links.htm http://www.hellenicbookservice.com/classics/greek_grammars.htm http://www.edonnelly.com/google.html https://perswww.kuleuven.be/~u0013314/greekg/courses.htm#english http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~glawall/grkteach.html http://www.johnpiazza.net/ancientgreek http://www.inthebeginning.org/ntgreek/lesson1/gl1.htm http://spiphanies.blogspot.com/2009/03/audio-resources-for-ancient-greek.html http://community.middlebury.edu/~harris/GreekGrammar.html http://www.lukeion.org/ http://www.worldwidegreek.com/learning.htm Hope some of those might be fun/useful/interesting! HG
  4. http://www.aoidoi.org/articles/dialects.html The link above is a pretty good place to start, I think, HootOwl; there are also many helpful discussions on the textkit forums about picking a place to start ( http://www.textkit.com/greek-latin-forum/ ). I think, really, that Greek is hard! So to me it makes the most sense to put your time into that which will facilitate your ability to cope with what you most want to read; for me, that's the Odyssey--right now, that's the brass ring that is keeping me working. For others, the prize might be Plato or the Gospels, in which cases one would start from different places. There certainly seem to be many more contemporary resources directed toward younger learners available for the Koine, which might be a consideration, depending on the age of your children. I think, you know, that learning Greek of any flavour is going to be a rigorous exercise, so if New Testament Greek is what most appeals to you, then do that--and have fun! In addition to textkit, I think there is also a B-Greek (where "B" = Biblical) list, where there are doubtless many other people who will be happy to help you, too--I love the generosity of so many helpful people on all of these lists. Best, HG
  5. Sorry, HootOwl, I just keep having afterthoughts...I had one more Koine idea for you: if you are interested in immersion-type learning, you might look at Christophe Rico's "Polis." It's actually in French, but since there is so much Greek in the book, the only French you'll see is in things like the table of contents and chapter headings and so on, so no big deal, even if you don't know French (and if you do, then you've really got it made). Hope that helps! (And I'll cease and desist now, I promise.) Best, HG
  6. One more idea, HootOwl--the Bryn Mawr Classical Review has its archives online, where one may read reviews of most of the books I and the others here have mentioned--sometimes a good detailed review is better than a few sample pages for giving you an overall sense of any given book. HG
  7. What kind of Greek are you wanting to learn, HootOwl? Homeric, Attic, or Koine? Athenaze is an Attic textbook (and there are plenty of other very good ones: Hansen & Quinn, Luschnig, Shelmerdine, Groton, Saffire & Freis, Seligson, JACT, and Mastronarde, for instance, are all textbooks widely used in universities); you might want to choose one with a readily available answer key (Mastronarde has one, as well as a free workbook available online and some other online resources for pronunciation and so on--it's a very, very "crunchy" grammar-oriented university-level textbook; the JACT series are excellent texts, oriented more toward reading). There are also many, many free older schoolbooks (mostly Attic) online, at textkit and at Perseus and other resource websites. Some of them have also been reprinted; for example, WHD Rouse's "First Greek Course" (to be accompanied by the reader "A Greek Boy at Home") has just been reprinted in a revised edition by Anne Mahoney. Homeric textbooks are rarer, but there are Pharr, Beetham, and Schoder/Horrigan/Edwards, for a start. I have been working with the S/H/E books myself and with one of my kids, and like them quite a bit. I can't remember if the Pharr has a key, but both of the other two do. I know less about resources for Koine, but people seem often to recommend Mounce or Machen--I don't know those books myself. At one point, I worked through a book by Dobson that I rather liked (but I am more interested in Homeric Greek, myself). There is a book by Paine that has an introduction to both the Koine and Attic, I think (I believe the readings are all/mostly from St John and from Xenophon)--I haven't seen it, but it sounds like an interesting compromise (or maybe it's just confusing...I don't know!). I'm no expert, but thought I might toss out a few names for you to look up, anyway! You might find something that grabs you. Best, HG
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