{"product_id":"an-ephesian-tale-book-1-video-course","title":"An Ephesian Tale Book 1 Video Course","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMore than \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e10 hours\u003c\/span\u003e of spoken Ancient Greek in \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e16 video lessons\u003c\/span\u003e! \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe easiest and most thrilling of the Ancient Greek novels! Danger! Excitement! Romance!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLearn to THINK in Ancient Greek!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWelcome to Ephesus circa the 2nd century AD! In this city reside the two most beautiful people who have ever lived: Habrocomes and Anthea, teenagers, each of them a child of noble families. They are destined to meet: but will fate ensure their happiness, or are these star-crossed lovers forever doomed?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis full-immersion course is taught entirely in spoken Ancient Greek, and is ideally suited both for \u003cstrong\u003ebeginners ready to move into the intermediate stage\u003c\/strong\u003e, as well as \u003cstrong\u003eadvanced learners\u003c\/strong\u003e who are excited by the challenge of learning to understand Ancient Greek through \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003elistening\u003c\/span\u003e alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn Ephesian Tale is one of the first novels in history, and is the shortest, easiest, and most ridiculous of the five complete Ancient Greek novels that have survived to us from antiquity. Written by Xenophon of Ephesus in the 2nd century AD, this action-adventure-romance is so over-the-top, its earnest, ill-fated characters so wrought by plight, that to properly conceive of what this novel is like, imagine \u003cem\u003eRomeo and Juliet\u003c\/em\u003e meets \u003cem\u003ePirates of the Carribean\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAncient Greek literature is filled with some of the most important texts in history, such as Aeschylus’ tragedies, Plato’s philosophy, Josephus’ antiquities, Dio’s histories, Church Fathers’ letters — but on the way to the goal of reading those often difficult, advanced texts, \u003cstrong\u003ewe must build a strong foundation\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003efall in love with the activity of reading\u003c\/strong\u003e and thinking in Ancient Greek, so that, once we arrive at those challenging texts, we will be well prepared: not only in your ability to read Greek, but in your understanding of common aspects of the world of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean which will further enrich your sense of the context of this vast body of literature. This course based on An Ephesian Tale will lay the next layer of brick in that foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this course, composed of 16 video lessons (one for each chapter of Book 1 of \u003cem\u003eAn Ephesian Tale\u003c\/em\u003e), you will be trained to listen to Ancient Greek, both by the instructor (Luke Ranieri) guiding you through the book chapter by chapter, line by line, but also by the recitations of each part of the text in such a way that you will actually be able to understand most of it or all of each before your eyes actually read the written text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach lesson has been carefully designed to help you level-up in your comprehension and acquisition of the Ancient Greek language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrerequisite knowledge:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAncient Greek alphabet, reading, writing, and pronunciation (video 1 on how to sound it out, and video 2 on how to write it)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBasics of Ancient Greek grammar and vocabulary, such as what can be learned in a traditional grammar\/translation textbook, such as \u003cem\u003eAncient Greek for Everyone\u003c\/em\u003e, or in the various graded readers, including (but not limited to) \u003cem\u003eAncient Greek Alive\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAthenaze\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLogos\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAlexandros\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eReading Greek\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThrasymachus\u003c\/em\u003e, or \u003cem\u003eThrasymachus' Catabasis\u003c\/em\u003e (q.v.: bit.ly\/thrasymachuscatabasis ).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Luke Ranieri Video Courses, Zoom Classes, \u0026 Audiobooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48535012376834,"sku":"vkl1789985316072","price":112.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0822\/8087\/4242\/files\/an-ephesian-tale-book-1-video-course_1.jpg?v=1789985322","url":"https:\/\/pouroverkit.shop\/products\/an-ephesian-tale-book-1-video-course","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}