 Hi, my name is Pete. I taught myself ancient Greek over the summer and this is the first of four videos about my experience learning ancient Greek and Some tips and hints about how you can learn it too if you want to of course not everyone wants to Otherwise, you know more people would know it But there's gonna be four videos there's gonna be this one the introduction Which is going to include some of my reasons for wanting to learn ancient Greek a second which will be a rough and ready history and explanation of what ancient Greek Was the third will be some of the materials that are available for beginners and the fourth will be a Walkthrough a live ancient Greek text With no modifications or no simplifications just to give you an idea of What the actual language itself is like even if you don't care to go on and learn it yourself So that said if you don't care why I learned ancient Greek go ahead and skip to the next video or whichever pleases you so why I learned ancient Greek I teach Latin and Latin is deeply connected with ancient Greek The Romans went over and conquered Greece and got there and said hmm. This is pretty good stuff. Let's import this back home and They really steeped themselves in it Young schoolboys in ancient Rome would have learned ancient Greece and many of them traveled to Greece including Catullus Atticus the famous Friend of Cicero lived in Greece for many years Cicero himself brought over a lot of Greek philosophy and made it available for the Romans. So I felt that by teaching myself ancient Greek I would have a greater understanding of Latin and thus I would make myself be a better teacher through having done that and of course it turns out that Ancient Greek is rollicking fun. Well, if you're into that sort of fun I'm not a professional athlete. So I've got to do something else for fun Teaching myself ancient Greek turns out to be a little bit of fun So that's essentially why I taught myself ancient Greek thought it would be advantageous for my Latin teaching and Having done it. I don't know. Maybe it is maybe it isn't But that's why