HELP: Online Study of Ancient Languages?

[Bill Polhemus]

I have begun self-study of ancient Greek, simply as a "hobby."
Although I think I'm making modest progress considering the time spent
and the modest capabilities of the teacher (myself), I would like to
explore the possibility of online courses.

However, a solid hour of searching has come up with NOTHING in terms
of online courses. MIT's OpenCourseware, probably the largest
selection of university-level courses for free, has nothing. And I
can't seem to find any (free or non-free) courses offered elsewhere
other than basic surveys of ancient Greek literature using English
translations (i.e. "no knowledge of ancient Greek required.")

Can anyone point me in the direction of sites of institutions that
might offer such online courses, either free or not? I'm interested in
not-for-credit work, but would consider institutions that require
enrollment in a degree program, if that's what it takes to get what I
want.

Thank you.

[Robert Connal]

"Bill Polhemus" <bill.p...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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The Open University used to be a good choice (at least in Europe), but
they're currently renewing their Greek course and the replacement is likely
to a mix of language and history. Current offerings are on
http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?Q01D31 and there's a small sample
course on http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2834.

There used to be a free course on www.kypros.org but I haven't used it and
the site was down when I tried to check om it.

Textkit (http://www.textkit.com/) has a Greek learner's forum - not the same
as an online course, but
might be useful.