Ancient Greek: More Words, Less Dictionary

Fall 2026

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Course Description

Course Description: You know the grammar. Now you need more words. Taught in spoken but highly approachable Ancient Greek, this vocabulary-first course is designed to make your Greek faster, richer, and much less dictionary-dependent. Each week we attack a new theme—food, bodies, emotions, movement, war, politics, travel, nature, everyday life—and make the vocabulary stick through games, exercises, speaking, questions, and easy readings. No endless word lists. No memorizing 50 words and forgetting 47. The goal is simple: recognize more, remember more, read more. For intermediate students ready to seriously expand their Greek vocabulary. DETAILS Level: Intermediate. Useful for advanced students. Textbook: Instructor will provide materials. Sections capped at: 5 students. If the course is sold-out, please fill out this waiting-list form.

Details

Semester: Fall 2026
Day: Thursday
Time: 12:00 PM ET
First class: October 1, 2026
Duration: 60 minutes per session

Tuition

$250 per course

Availability

7 spots remaining out of 7

Cancellation Policy

Telepaideia tuition is non-refundable. However, if you need to cancel your enrollment or withdraw from your class, you may be eligible for a 50% credit to be used toward a future Telepaideia course. In order to be eligible for this credit, you must notify info@paideiainstitute.org of your withdrawal before the second class meeting has taken place.

Instructor

Roberto Salazar

Roberto Salazar is an experienced polyglot language coach and nomadic classicist, with a passion for teaching Latin and Greek as spoken languages, and an impossible desire to speak all tongues imaginable, and to teach them to those who want to learn them. He has taught Latin, Greek, Arabic, German and more in different places around the world, including various Paideia programs, online and on site. A former fellow of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, where he studied Classics and Philosophy, he's currently writing a PhD dissertation on the reception of Greek tragedy in the Arab World, Modern Greece and Latin America. He has also done research on European Classical Reception and Neo-Latin. He has published fiction translations into French and Spanish from various languages including Swedish. In 2017, he was the head literary curator for the French-Colombian Year. That's probably why he's still scrambling to complete his PhD at the University of Versailles. He currently lives between Athens, Cairo and Saint Denis, France.