AlphaIsForAnthropos

ALPHA IS FOR ANTHROPOS is a book & curriculum for teaching Ancient Greek to children through stories, songs & art. by T Sellers & LBW Jarka-Sellers(illustrator)

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Interview with author Therese Sellers in @lifomag https://t.co/dypAJdt8gv #Greece #literature

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Centaur Chiron teaches deer hunting to young Achilles.

Second half of 11th century - Homilies of Gregory Nazianzenos

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Eastern greek fluorite carved idol: Owl. 4th - 3rd century BC. Private Collection.

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On Perihelion Day 2025, when our planet is nearest to the sun, a blazing Helios driving his gleaming steeds across a dolphin-dancing sea.

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so this has slipped to 2025, but it’s happening!
happy new year!

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Yay! In 2024 Solitude Hill Press will publish 10th Anniversary paperback edition of noted modern Greek translator @qerese's unique picture book ALPHA IS FOR ANTHROPOS that teaches Ancient Greek to children by adapting classic children’s songs #Greek #Classics #translation

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@brendonwrites_ @AGROS_edu and they deserve them!

[sententiae antiquae @sentantiq]

Same resolution as every year.

#HappyNewYear2025

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Antigone and Ismene as children. #Sophocles

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From Berlin ⁦@AlphaAnthropos⁩

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"As a general rule, Greek sentences, clauses, phrases, and single words are linked by a connecting particle to what precedes. Connexion is, on the whole, not often omitted in verse, still less often in prose."

—John Dewar Denniston

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#Athena #trees

[Helen McVeigh @ClassicsAcademy]

In ancient #Greece, "moriai" were olive trees considered to be the property of the state because of their religious significance.
The tree in the pic stands in front of Erechtheion on the #Acropolis, the location of the 1st olive tree given to #Athens by Athena.
📸 bart_wielinski

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#ΝΑΥΣ (ship)

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looking forward! #AncientGreekForChildren

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Nautical chart of the Black Sea (1318) by the Genoese cartographer Pietro Vesconte
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

During this period, the Genoese had numerous colonies and trade posts from Galata (next to Constantinople) to the Black Sea.

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@poetclare @FigTreePenguin congratulations!

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looking forward! #AncientGreekForChildren

[Solitude Hill Press @solitudehill.bsky.social @SolitudeHPress]

Yay! In 2024 Solitude Hill Press will publish 10th Anniversary paperback edition of noted modern Greek translator @qerese's unique picture book ALPHA IS FOR ANTHROPOS that teaches Ancient Greek to children by adapting classic children’s songs #Greek #Classics #translation

[🇬🇷Eᴘɪʀᴜs•Mᴀᴄᴇᴅᴏɴɪᴀ•Tʜʀᴀᴄᴇ🇬🇷✨🫒 @greece_heritage]

The Heraion (Sanctuary of Hera) of Perachora, Loutraki, 6th c. BC

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@AGROS_edu but what does it say? (in Greek, of course)

[ὁ Κέφαλος | AGROS education @AGROS_edu]

βάτραχος
βάτραχε
βάτραχον
βατράχου
βατράχῳ

βατράχω
βατράχοιν

βάτραχοι
βατράχους
βατράχων
βατράχοις

📸 #vocab_irl

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#digamma

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🐑 ovis, ovis (f)

🐑 τὸ πρόβατον
🐑 ὁ/ἡ ὄϝις

📸 #vocab_irl

[Ennius @red_loeb]

Remind yourself of the Greek alphabet

St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 397; Personal reference handbook (vade mecum) of Grimald of St. Gall (Abbot 841 CE-872 CE); middle of the 9th century; St. Gall; p.25
(https://t.co/ComO88I3DY)