We can’t prevent students from discovering tools like Perseus and William Whitaker’s Words, but we should definitely not help them find them. Once they discover a website that will fully parse morphology and provide the (not always correct) meaning of the word, our job is made much more difficult.
Instead of pretending like online resources don’t exist, and it’s either physical books or nothing, we should share the good material that’s out there. For instance:
For Greek
• Dictionaries (website): Philolog.us
• Dictionaries (apps): Ancient Greek
• Online Keyboard: Lexilogos
This website provides a simple method of composing Greek by providing a clickable version of every letter, both lower- and upper-case, and accompanied by every permissible combination of diacritical marks, as well as a text box which can be directly typed into. Either way, the result can be copied and pasted directly into your quiz, exam, etc. Particularly useful when you’re using a public computer (in a library or graduate student office, for example) that might not have a Greek keyboard installed!
For Latin
• Grammars: Allen and Greenough
A helpful way to use this is, for instance, when posting a Canvas announcement about that day’s material or the homework, also include a link to the relevant page(s) of Allen and Greenough (thanks to John Dillon for this idea). At the very least, this way students see that there are more advanced resources available than just what’s in the textbook, even if they don’t use them.
• Dictionaries (websites): Philolog.us and Logeion
• Dictionaries (apps): Logeion and SPQR
Vocabulary Lists
• Haverford’s Bridge is great for the texts (and textbooks!) it has available.
This is a particularly helpful resource for teachers who may wish to give students vocabulary lists for texts they are reading, no matter the level.
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