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Participles are defined as verbal adjectives: they are formed from verbs, describing an action but are used as adjectives. For example, 'I ran away from the collapsing house' uses the participle 'collapsing'...

In the fifth century the Sophists were widely distrusted, probably due to the fact that their teaching of rhetoric and philosophy was mostly available only to the wealthiest members of society, and the fact ...

It is true that there are a lot of endings for every type of word in Greek. There are many ways to learn them, depending on the person. For example, you could try writing a whole table without looking at the...

The central moment in Aeschylus' Agamemnon is when the eponymous hero arrives home and walks over the purple tapestries. This is central to the main theme of justice in the play. The act of walking over the ...

The aorist tense can be formed in three ways: the weak aorist, the strong aorist, and the root aorist. All have an augment. The weak aorist has the same stem as the present tense + σ + endings (α, ας, ε, αμε...