Greek Resources
language laboratory catalog
Basic Language Study Recordings
Greek Language and People (CL/G 1.006) — beginning-level text and audiocassettes to accompany the 1983 BBC television program of the same title; videocassette series of 10 twenty-five minute programs also available.
Greek Now 1 + 1 — (CL/G 1.010) — beginning-level text and accompanying audiocassettes focus on the learning of Greek via dialogues, texts, exercises, grammar explanations, and vocabulary.
Greek Now 2 + 2 — (CL/G 1.011) — intermediate-level text and accompanying audiocassettes focus on the learning of Greek via dialogues, texts, exercises, grammar explanations, vocabulary, and a detective story.
Modern Greek I Readings (CL/G 1.005) — 5 audiocassettes of the readings of Greek poetry and prose which appear in the text A Manual of Modern Greek I (c.1974, 1983 by Anna Farmakides), the first volume in series A of the McGill University Companions to Modern Greek Studies; text available.
Literature Recordings
Please see Part I, pages 2 and 3, of Catalogue of Audiovisual Materials for Classics and Modern Greek at Boston College, available in the Language Laboratory.
Music Recordings
Manos Hadzidakis, Two Ballets: Six Folk Paintings and The Accursed Snake (CL 3.011)
Manos Hadzidakis, For Helen (CL 3.013)
Manos Hadzidakis, The Great Love Song (CL 3.006)
Manos Hadzidakis, First Performance (CL 3.007)
Vasílis Papathanasiou and Iréne Papa, Rhapsodies (CL 3.015)
Dionysios Savópoulos, 10 Years of Songs (CL 3.010)
Mikis Theodorakis, 18 Songs of the Bitter Motherland on Poetry of Y. Ritsos (CL 3.012)
Mikis Theodorakis, The Small Cyclades by O. Elytis and 4 Other Songs (CL 3.008)
Vasílis Tsitsánis, Tsitsánis (CL 3.014)
Nikos Xyloúris, Collection (CL 3.009)
Videocassettes
Greek Language and People (CL/G 1.006)
Videocassette series of 10 twenty-five minute programs produced by the BBC in 1983 for the purpose of teaching/learning beginning-level modern Greek; among the geographical locations highlighted within the language lessons = Andros, Athens, Corfu, Corinth, Kalamata, Metsovo, Peloponnese, and Sifnos; cultural themes include: the Greek alphabet, church and religious celebrations, education, family life, food and drink, the importance of olives, pottery, tourism, the tradition of the square, worry beads; also available are the beginning-level text and audiocassette series of the same title; narration in English within an English to Greek language learning format; total time = 2 hours 10 minutes.
The Origins of the Drama and Theater
Two 1/2" VHS color videocassettes from Educational Video Network; Part I: The Origin of the Drama explores the development of Greek drama from religious festivals honoring the gods and discusses vulgar jest becoming comedies, hymns becoming tragedies; Part II: The Origin of the Theater documents the development of classic theater from its beginning on threshing floors through a Golden Age of drama in Greece to the amphitheaters of Roman times; in English; study questions and answers available; part I = 13 minutes, part II = 15 minutes.
Web Links
LangMedia: Greek in Greece by Five College Center for the Study of World Languages — authentic, unscripted video, audio, and still images covering practical aspects of daily life in Greece.
http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu/collection/lm_greece/gr_index.html
Filoglossia Web Version — A very good online beginner Greek course, includes audio.
http://www.xanthi.ilsp.gr/filog/
Greek News Links — links to Greek news sources on the Internet. http://www.nostos.com/newslinks/
GreekRadio.net — Greek radio and television streams.
http://www.greekradio.net/
E-Radio Hellas — More Greek radio stations.
http://www.e-radio.gr/
Learn Greek Online by Kypros-Net — Online Greek courses with over 105 audio files around 15 minutes each.
http://www.kypros.org/LearnGreek/