Digital Media Displays: It's All Greek to Me

Learn to introduce yourself in Greek with our Greek in Three Minutes series! In Greece, manners are important, and this step-by-step video teaches you some of the basics you need to be polite while speaking Greek. In this lesson, you'll learn how to introduce yourself in Greek.

Welcome to Greek Alphabet Made Easy series. In this video series of fifteen lessons, you will learn the Greek alphabet, known as Alfaveeto.

Robin Lane Fox begins with the lost empire of Turkey whose myths of creation were to influence the Greeks. In Crete, he visits the birthplace of the supreme Greek God Zeus, and at Delphi he pinpoints the moment when Euboean tales were transformed into the great poetry of Hesiod and Homer.

The short-lived democratic system of Ancient Greece gave way to three major dramatists: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. This film examines the dramatist culture of Ancient Greece, the role its government played, and the freedom of speech delivered onstage; a brief overview of Greece's early political history is given. The evolution of theater and drama were forever changed by the three tragedians studied. Listen to readings from each of the playwrights' work.

The Greek pantheon of gods acted like a dysfunctional feuding family. Though all-powerful, the deities displayed near-human frailties involving themselves in wars and petty jealousies of their mortal subjects. We'll visit magnificent monuments and temples to see how the gods' changing faces reflected the advancement of the Greeks.

Perseus was not meant to come into the world. Fearing the fulfilment of the prediction according to which his grandson would kill him, King Acrisius shut his daughter Danaë away in a fortified tower. But Zeus fell in love with Danaë, and in order to conquer her, metamorphosed into a golden shower. Perseus was born from this union. Once he had become a man, Perseus was given the challenge of bringing the head of the Gorgon to the tyrant King Polydectes, who was holding his mother captive. This was the start of Perseus' great adventure, which became a veritable legend for all the Greek heroes that came after him, because taking on Medusa was an act of madness, as whoever set eyes on her would turn to stone. The young Perseus set out in search of the Gorgon - the most terrifying of creatures - with the help of the God Hermes and the Goddess Athena.