[B-Greek] Comenius and Greek/Latin Pedagogy

Louis Sorenson llsorenson at hotmail.com
Sun Aug 30 17:40:59 EDT 2009


I just ran across another very interesting set of books by John Amos Comenius (1592-1670) Wikipedia .  Comenius wrote a number of language primers for Latin and Greek (some may have been translated into Greek). The features of these books are:

1) A graded reader approach (from simple to complex)
2) A picture/action pictures approach (quite novel for the 1600's) - even many modern  books lack this feature.
3) A side-by-side parallel translation (Modern Language || Ancient language)
4) Rich content - covering fields of geography, animal husbandry, science, etc. rather than out of context sentences which manipulate the grammar. These could easily be used for home schoolers.

Many of Comenius' books are now on Google. There is a site associated with his language books Latinum's Comenius' Project. It is at http://knol.google.com/k/molendinarius/latinums-comenius-project/4s1j8rpi2dvv/13#  That site has links to many of the books.

His English-Latin primer book could be easily translated into Greek and would even be of value today. His fourth book in the series, The Janua has a Latin/Greek translation.The Latin and Classical Greek by Theodoro Simonio can be found at http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9VMTAAAAQAAJ .

Louis Sorenson

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