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I<\/span>t’s been fifteen years since I did formal study of Ancient Greek. I’ve been wanting to get back to it for a long time now. <\/p>\n So on the recommendation of learned friends, I got myself a copy of Greek: An Intensive Course <\/em>by Hansen and Quinn. I also pulled out my two volumes of Athenaze <\/em>by Balme and Lawall. (Old notes from 1999 fell out!)<\/p>\n I decided to keep a notebook (pictured above) to keep track of my progress, and while I’ve long had the alphabet memorized, it just seemed like the right thing to put on the first page.<\/p>\n I’m working on Classical Greek, since my purpose is to read Patristic Greek, which uses a literary form closer to Classical. I’ve had a “working knowledge” for a number of years, but I want to be able to read fluently. <\/p>\n I would like to say that it’s all coming back to me, but, even though I minored in Ancient Greek in college, I never really mastered the “all” at the time, either. <\/p>\n That’s okay, though, because the context is entirely different this time. I’m doing this just because I want to. And it also won’t be in the midst of the weirdness that was my undergraduate years (which were somewhat extended, since I took a minimally full-time schedule while working nearly full-time). I do rather wish that it had been emphasized in my seminary years. <\/p>\n