Harry Potter in Ancient Greek

[Allearia]

I just gave my son the Ancient Greek version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as a reward for completing Greek 2. Anyone else have a Greek scholar making a stab at reading it? I thought it was really cool even if he doesn't read it. He has worked through the first two paragraphs with help from the notes and vocab on the website, so maybe he will keep going.

[Corraleno]

DS (who also just finished Greek 2!) has the HP book, but has only thumbed through it so far. I love the explanations by the author of how he chose to translate some of the names and other new words — very clever! I just bought DS a couple of great little vintage Greek readers for the Odyssey, which are about the same size as the Loeb Classics. Greek is his favorite subject in the history of the world, and he adores Regan as a teacher — he will be totally bummed when he finishes Lukeion's Greek 4! After that he will either need to continue on his own, or through DE at the local university. Is your son signed up for Greek 3 next year?

 

Jackie

[Allearia]

DS (who also just finished Greek 2!) has the HP book, but has only thumbed through it so far. I love the explanations by the author of how he chose to translate some of the names and other new words — very clever! I just bought DS a couple of great little vintage Greek readers for the Odyssey, which are about the same size as the Loeb Classics. Greek is his favorite subject in the history of the world, and he adores Regan as a teacher — he will be totally bummed when he finishes Lukeion's Greek 4! After that he will either need to continue on his own, or through DE at the local university. Is your son signed up for Greek 3 next year?

 

Jackie

 

 

We haven't yet signed up for Greek 3 but are planning to do so. He is also working locally with a Greek tutor so it is possible we would do something else but I would like to continue with Mr. Barr if it doesn't seem redundant. We are near UC Berkeley so that that is an option for us as well. He has been translating the Labors of Hercules from Appollodorus and some fun Aesops Fables from A Greek Reader for Schools with his tutor. The latter is available online I know and has extensive notes and vocab in the back so your son might like to look at it over the summer.

[Jyniffrec]

I didn't realize this existed or I would have already gotten it for her! We just finished Greek II and plan to move on to Greek III next year.

[Grover]

I've given DS the latin version. He's enjoying puzzling his way through it.

[Kareni]

We gave my daughter the Ancient Greek version of Harry Potter when she took a year of Classical Greek in 12th grade. She also owns the first two volumes of Harry Potter in Latin. (She's about to graduate from college with a degree in Latin.) Her approach to reading the Latin version was to first read only the dialogue. She's since moved on to reading the prose.

 

Regards,

Kareni

[SailorMom]

We translated the Latin last year, and are going to work on the Spanish one this coming year :)