Classic Education

[barry1010]

I am very aware that my education is lacking, my secondary modern school didn't quite stretch to the Classics. I need to Google many of Colin Dexter's references in his Morse series and I'm sure many go unnoticed.
A top-class education is the only thing I envy in people but is there any way a mature adult can educate himself in Latin, Greek, Roman Mythology at home?

[Vagus]

I did Latin at school for two years. Loved it for the first year, hated it for the second year.
I’m glad I did it though, as I find it interesting that so many words have their roots in Latin.
Discipuli pictorum spectate...or something like that?
Pupils look at the picture? That’s about all I can vaguely remember.

[Jackdaw33]

Not the same Mr Wright, then. Ours never taught French.

[ichkeria]

I think I’d he had been Angus that would have been cooler :-)

[woofgang]

corbs could have been Catullus?

[THECORBYLOON]

Doesn't ring a bell

[Peter Pedant]

the question is:
greek mythology in English

lots of URLs come up

I dont think there is a classics course on U tube and I am not sure if you can teach yourself Latin - all the books I used ( first second steps in Latin Richie Benaud - require a master standing over you)

Greek - lots of U tube - exclusively late NT . hellenistic greek to assist reading the New Testament - none intermediate. exclusively first year.

Miffs - the Golden Bough is the usual starting place
and you dont even have to buy it

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41082/41082-pdf.pdf

thick paper back - it is about 1000 pages

Robert Graves did on The Greek Myths

Good Luck

[woofgang]

As I understand it, a lot of it has since been disproved though....not the myffs obvs but the practices

[woofgang]

lovely quote from a book by Dorothy Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh about engraved drawings in a local chalk cave.

"These mysterious figures, made in England, cut in the bones of the local modest, scarcely palpable chalk hills, had survived many conquests, many convulsions, innumerable deaths and changes, had survived their own significance, so that nobody knew what they meant, and they were still here. Still a part of things. Whatever terrible fate awaits us, she told herself inwardly, we must not overestimate it. In another thousand years somebody will stand here, looking baffled, and roused as I am to an unfocused love of country by a few bumps and scratches on a subterranean wall. I wonder why they made this massive hole, with only stag bones and horns as shovels and picks?
What labour! Perhaps even then it was a shelter. She noticed that the sign on the door, worn nearly past legibility, had mentioned ‘ritual worship’. Ritual worship, she thought smiling to herself, was a translation of ‘The archaeologist hasn’t a clue what this was for.’

Sayers, Dorothy L.; Jill Paton Walsh. A Presumption of Death (Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane series) . Hodder & Stoughton. Kindle Edition.

[bobbinwales]

Peter Peddant- my guess is your joking but your confusing Richie Benaud cricketer /commontator with F Ritcie

[Peter Pedant]

disproven

yeah but no but you dont read myffs and where they come from just to see which god ate what baby do you?

[Peter Pedant]

Ritchie Benaud - age around 95 did a world tour
and at the end of a long and attentive interview on er cricket, the hack said - Ritchie you have something else to say....

and Ritchie Benaud for it was he said
I am still asked if I wrote First Steps in latin

(final word, end interview)

[woofgang]

Did anyone have Julia as their first Latin reader?
Julia puella parva est. Prope maritimam habitat.

[JimF]

"I find the link between Latin and modern French interesting"

And every other Romance language, of course.