But are you are this old?

That's how I read it!

I would even add free audiobooks from Librivox. Imagine normal people familiar with Homer or Plato, even if the translation wasn't ideal. Better education than most are paying for.

Good men can still have horrible blind spots...

When Buzzfeed hasn't written a listicle for your Google search. What do you all think?

Herodotus faithfully reported that creatures burrow into the gold-rich earth of India and come up with gold. His informant called them murmekes, Greek for ‘ants’. But the word meant ‘marmots’ in his language, and Peissel reported in the 1990s that Indian marmots burrow in the

The passage in question. Historiae A, 133 The Persian λόγος

An Ancient Greek vocabulary frequency list, clocking in at 1100 words. About 80% of any given text is made up of these (based on the Perseus database). By Wilfred E. Major from Louisiana State University. promotelatin.org/images/stories…

I didn't think I was buying any more picture books, but when another one comes out in Ancient Greek, I mean, how can I resist?? Contubernales Books

After yesterday’s Greek frequency list, here’s a Latin equivalent with 1500 words that follows the same 80% rule. It’s based on Paul Diederich’s 1939 dissertation „The frequency of Latin words and their endings“. hiberna-cr.wdfiles.com/local--files/d…

Stephen Krashen and Paul Nation stand undefeated.

Learning vocabulary is tedious. But here’s how I learned 3,000+ words in a year: > 20 flashcards a day > Review them three times a day (once before bed) > At the end of the day, remove the ones you got right > Keep the ones you got wrong Pro tip: Don’t write the translation

Ναπολέων ἀπολέων πόλεων ὁλέων λέων ἑῶν ὤν Napoleon, future destroyer of entire cities, as the lion of his people.

Start your Great Books journey in Mesopotamia, or you'll miss the foundational narratives that inspired and contrasted with everything that came after.

Your body can either aid or hinder your pursuit of godliness. Where God leaves weakness, we boast in Christ’s power. Where He gives strength, we thank Him for mercy. But we are responsible not to make our bodies an impediment to godliness.