INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED ANCIENT GREEK | FROM GRADED READERS TO AUTHENTIC TEXTS
Bridge the Gap Between Grammar and Classical Literature
Acquire advanced syntax and reading stamina intuitively through Active Philology. Built around the final chapters of Athenaze Volume I and the entirety of Volume II, this program is for university students, PhD candidates, scholars, and dedicated adult learners ready to transition from adapted pedagogical material to reading and discussing unadapted primary sources directly in Ancient Greek.
Athenaze
Sept 28, 2026
Small Groups
Live Biweekly Classes (12 Weeks)
Select Your Level & Enroll
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*Available for US customers only-
This intermediate course significantly expands your narrative and communicative range by introducing the historical tenses. Participants follow the epic accounts of the Persian Wars, transitioning from present actions to past narratives while studying the imperfect and aorist tenses through active classroom immersion.
This intermediate course significantly expands your narrative and communicative range by introducing the historical tenses. Participants follow the epic accounts of the Persian Wars, transitioning from present actions to past narratives while studying the imperfect and aorist tenses through active classroom immersion.
Instruction Language: Ancient Greek (Immersion)
Cohort A: Mon & Wed — 18:00 (Europe Time) / 12:00 PM (US East Coast Time)
Cohort B: Tue & Thu — 18:00 (US East Coast Time) / 24:00 (Europe Time)
Cohort C: Sat & Sun — 16:30 (Europe Time) / 10:30 AM (US East Coast Time)
Sept 14 – Dec 6, 2026
36h total (90-minute sessions)
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This upper-intermediate course guides students into the second volume of the Athenaze series. Participants explore the sacred world of Greek religion and ancient medicine while expanding their grammar through the future tense, irregular -μι verbs, and introductory composition exercises.
This upper-intermediate course guides students into the second volume of the Athenaze series. Participants explore the sacred world of Greek religion and ancient medicine while expanding their grammar through the future tense, irregular -μι verbs, and introductory composition exercises.
Instruction Language: Ancient Greek (Immersion)
Cohort A: Mon & Wed — 18:00 (Europe Time) / 12:00 PM (US East Coast Time)
Cohort B: Tue & Thu — 18:00 (US East Coast Time) / 24:00 (Europe Time)
Cohort C: Sat & Sun — 16:30 (Europe Time) / 10:30 AM (US East Coast Time)
Sept 14 – Dec 6, 2026
36h total (90-minute sessions)
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This upper-intermediate course continues your journey through the second volume of Athenaze, expanding your syntactical range and rhetorical competence. Participants transition into reading engaging historical narratives about Athenian civic life and the legendary encounters of King Croesus, applying advanced grammatical structures through active classroom immersion.
This upper-intermediate course continues your journey through the second volume of Athenaze, expanding your syntactical range and rhetorical competence. Participants transition into reading engaging historical narratives about Athenian civic life and the legendary encounters of King Croesus, applying advanced grammatical structures through active classroom immersion.
Instruction Language: Ancient Greek (Immersion)
Cohort A: Mon & Wed — 18:00 (Europe Time) / 12:00 PM (US East Coast Time)
Cohort B: Tue & Thu — 18:00 (US East Coast Time) / 24:00 (Europe Time)
Cohort C: Sat & Sun — 16:30 (Europe Time) / 10:30 AM (US East Coast Time)
Sept 14 – Dec 6, 2026
36h total (90-minute sessions)
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This final upper-intermediate course brings your journey through the Athenaze curriculum to a dramatic conclusion. Participants will master the full system of the perfect and pluperfect tenses while reading celebrated accounts of Athenian naval supremacy and the resolution of the Croesus narrative, bridging the gap between textbook passages and original classical literature.
This final upper-intermediate course brings your journey through the Athenaze curriculum to a dramatic conclusion. Participants will master the full system of the perfect and pluperfect tenses while reading celebrated accounts of Athenian naval supremacy and the resolution of the Croesus narrative, bridging the gap between textbook passages and original classical literature.
Instruction Language: Ancient Greek (Immersion)
Cohort A: Mon & Wed — 18:00 (Europe Time) / 12:00 PM (US East Coast Time)
Cohort B: Tue & Thu — 18:00 (US East Coast Time) / 24:00 (Europe Time)
Cohort C: Sat & Sun — 16:30 (Europe Time) / 10:30 AM (US East Coast Time)
Sept 14 – Dec 6, 2026
36h total (90-minute sessions)
Active Philology
Learn to read and discuss original works of Greek literature fluently and naturally.
“Reading authors is the primary path to acquiring language, but active use is the key that unlocks their true meaning without endless delay.”
Traditional grammar-translation courses often leave students stranded after the basics, struggling to piece together complex classical texts like static puzzles.
Our intermediate and advanced approach matches the full academic depth of classical philology while building the endurance needed for real literature.
Grounded in the humanist traditions of the Renaissance and backed by modern Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research, our methodology continues to integrate Comprehensible Input (CI), Inductive-Analytic Learning, and the simultaneous development of all four linguistic competencies (speaking, listening, reading, and writing).
By immersing you in authentic historical prose, poetic rhythms, and complex syntax (such as the optative mood, -μι verbs, indirect discourse, and genitive absolutes), active practice trains your brain to process advanced structures automatically. You do not sacrifice grammatical exactness—you internalize it intuitively, building the precise foundation required to read unadapted classical authors with speed, accuracy, and deep literary appreciation. Ultimately, this prepares you to participate in our advanced seminars where texts by Herodotus, Plato, and Aristophanes are discussed entirely in Ancient Greek.
3 Pillars of Our Advanced Greek Pedagogy:
Absorbing complex Greek naturally is the most direct path to reading authentic literature and enjoying it as Greek readers used to in the past.
Contextual Immersion via Athenaze: Learn advanced grammar structures within rich narrative, historical, and mythological contexts, ensuring immediate recognition of complex periodic sentences rather than manual decoding.
Interactive Class Reinforcement: While text materials provide comprehensible input, our live classes transition into analytical discussions, providing spoken practice, listening comprehension, and immediate instructor feedback in the target language. You will learn to use Greek metalanguage to discuss grammar itself.
Intuitive Comprehension of Classical Texts: Eliminate the habit of word-by-word mental translation back into English. Build the reading stamina required to step confidently into our seminars, reading and debating primary sources directly in Ancient Greek.
“We don’t learn Ancient Greek to talk about everyday trivia—we learn it to read the greatest works ever written.”
Realistic Milestones
Intermediate 1 (Athenaze XII - XVI):
The Persian Wars and Historical Prose. Practical acquisition of historical narrative tenses (imperfect and aorist) and introduction to classroom metalanguage entirely in Ancient Greek.
Intermediate 2 (Athenaze XVII - XX):
Sanctuaries and Medicine. Navigating the active and middle future tenses and the foundational athematic verbs in -μι. Introduction to rhetorical exercises like ekphrasis (detailed descriptions) of classical art and archaeology.
Advanced 1 (Athenaze XXI - XXV):
Athenian Civic Life and Epic Historiography. Deepening reading fluency through Herodotus's accounts and complex subordinate constructions (purpose, result, conditional, and temporal clauses).
Advanced 2 (Athenaze XXVI - XXX):
The Golden Age of Athens. Structural command over the perfect and pluperfect tenses. The complete removal of pedagogical adaptations to read authentic classical literature, utilizing ancient scholia to bridge into the unadapted comedies of Aristophanes.
Select Your Intermediate/Advanced Greek Stage
Unsure which stage fits your background? Select the option that you think best matches your experience. Every enrollment includes a pre-term check-in with our teaching staff to confirm your placement. If you enroll in the wrong level, our staff will transfer you to the correct section immediately.
LEVEL 3: INTERMEDIATE I - THE PERSIAN WARS & HISTORICAL PROSE
Target Student: Intermediate students transitioning from daily domestic life narratives to the grand stage of history and complex past-tense storytelling.
Core Curriculum Focus:
Firm grasp of the historical narrative tenses: the imperfect and the first, second, and root aorist paradigms.
Active use of Ancient Greek metalanguage to discuss grammatical structures (e.g., "Does this verb take the accusative or the genitive?").
Exploration of the legendary clashes between Greece and Persia, crossing the bridge between basic pedagogy and advanced classical reading.
Tuition: $890 USD
Payment Plan Available*
*Available for US customers onlyThis intermediate course significantly expands your narrative and communicative range by introducing the historical tenses. Participants follow the epic accounts of the Persian Wars, transitioning from present actions to past narratives while studying the imperfect and aorist tenses through active classroom immersion.
Instruction Language: Ancient Greek (Immersion)
Cohort A: Mon & Wed — 18:00 (Europe Time) / 12:00 PM (US East Coast Time)
Cohort B: Tue & Thu — 18:00 (US East Coast Time) / 24:00 (Europe Time)
Cohort C: Sat & Sun — 16:30 (Europe Time) / 10:30 AM (US East Coast Time)
Sept 14 – Dec 6, 2026
36h total (90-minute sessions)
LEVEL 5: ADVANCED I - ATHENIAN CIVIC LIFE & EPIC HISTORIOGRAPHY
Target Student: Advanced students moving deeply into Athenaze Vol. II to tackle historical reporting, civic debates, and complex syntactical dependencies.
Core Curriculum Focus:
• Deep, intuitive understanding of complex subordinate clauses (purpose, result, conditionals) and advanced participle usage in historical narrative.
• Engaging with the assembly (ekklesia) and the historical accounts of Herodotus.
• Building the reading stamina necessary to listen directly to the genuine voice of Greek historiography, reformulating passages through personal paraphrases.
This upper-intermediate course guides students into the second volume of the Athenaze series. Participants explore the sacred world of Greek religion and ancient medicine while expanding their grammar through the future tense, irregular -μι verbs, and introductory composition exercises.
Instruction Language: Ancient Greek (Immersion)
Cohort A: Mon & Wed — 18:00 (Europe Time) / 12:00 PM (US East Coast Time)
Cohort B: Tue & Thu — 18:00 (US East Coast Time) / 24:00 (Europe Time)
Cohort C: Sat & Sun — 16:30 (Europe Time) / 10:30 AM (US East Coast Time)
Sept 14 – Dec 6, 2026
36h total (90-minute sessions)
LEVEL 4: INTERMEDIATE II - SANCTUARIES, MEDICINE & -MI VERBS
Target Student: Advanced intermediate students ready to tackle athematic verbs and begin structuring rhetorical arguments and descriptions.
Core Curriculum Focus:
Reliable understanding of the active and middle future tenses and foundational -μι verbs (τίθημι, εἶμι, δίδωμι).
Reading about ancient medicine and the cult of Asclepius, using classical imagery to compose ekphrasis (rhetorical descriptions) directly in Greek.
Reading aloud and memorizing select narrative dialogues and original fragments to absorb the natural rhythm of the language.
LEVEL 6: ADVANCED II - CLASSICAL LITERATURE
Target Student: Highly advanced students ready to cross the crucial threshold where adapted text gives way entirely to authentic Attic prose and poetry.
Core Curriculum Focus:
• Structural command over the complete system of the perfect and pluperfect tenses across all voices and moods.
• Following Croesus's epic narrative and the rise of Athens' maritime dominance through sustained periodic sentences.
• Direct interaction with ancient scholia and prose paraphrases as a deliberate stylistic bridge to read the unadapted comedies of Aristophanes.
This upper-intermediate course continues your journey through the second volume of Athenaze, expanding your syntactical range and rhetorical competence. Participants transition into reading engaging historical narratives about Athenian civic life and the legendary encounters of King Croesus, applying advanced grammatical structures through active classroom immersion.
Instruction Language: Ancient Greek (Immersion)
Cohort A: Mon & Wed — 18:00 (Europe Time) / 12:00 PM (US East Coast Time)
Cohort B: Tue & Thu — 18:00 (US East Coast Time) / 24:00 (Europe Time)
Cohort C: Sat & Sun — 16:30 (Europe Time) / 10:30 AM (US East Coast Time)
Sept 14 – Dec 6, 2026
36h total (90-minute sessions)
Tuition: $890 USD
Payment Plan Available*
*Available for US customers onlyThis final upper-intermediate course brings your journey through the Athenaze curriculum to a dramatic conclusion. Participants will master the full system of the perfect and pluperfect tenses while reading celebrated accounts of Athenian naval supremacy and the resolution of the Croesus narrative, bridging the gap between textbook passages and original classical literature.
Instruction Language: Ancient Greek (Immersion)
Cohort A: Mon & Wed — 18:00 (Europe Time) / 12:00 PM (US East Coast Time)
Cohort B: Tue & Thu — 18:00 (US East Coast Time) / 24:00 (Europe Time)
Cohort C: Sat & Sun — 16:30 (Europe Time) / 10:30 AM (US East Coast Time)
Sept 14 – Dec 6, 2026
36h total (90-minute sessions)
Placement Guarantee: Pre-Term 1-on-1 Consultation
Unsure which specific level is the right starting point for your continuing Greek studies? Before classes begin, every student meets 1-on-1 for a brief consultation with our instructional staff. If we determine together that a different level or section is a better fit for your goals, we will adjust your enrollment immediately.
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Instruction Led by Experienced Teachers, Scholars & Immersion Specialists
• Elite Academic Backgrounds:
Members of our faculty hold degrees and fellowships from Cambridge University, Accademia Vivarium Novum, Polis Institute, and Sorbonne among others.
• Target Language Active Command:
Instructors possess fluent oral and written command of Ancient Greek and extensive online and in-person teaching experience with the active method.
• Small-Group Mentorship:
Classes are capped to guarantee active participation and personalized feedback.
• Faculty Directory:
Explore full instructor bios here.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Q: I have studied Greek grammar for years but still struggle to read unadapted texts. Will these levels help me? A: Absolutely. The transition from textbook grammar to authentic classical literature (like Herodotus, Plato, or Aristophanes) is notoriously difficult. Our intermediate and advanced courses are specifically designed to bridge this gap, using Active Philology to build your reading stamina, eliminate mental translation, and foster an intuitive understanding of complex syntax.
Q: Will we be speaking in Ancient Greek at these levels?
A: Yes. As you progress through Levels 3 to 6, active practice evolves significantly. Instead of just answering basic comprehension questions, you will learn the Greek metalanguage to discuss grammar, formulate ekphrasis (rhetorical descriptions), and debate historical and literary texts directly in Ancient Greek. This is the exact preparation needed for our advanced reading seminars.
Q: Do I need to have taken Levels 1 & 2 at Institutum Antiquitatis to join?
A: Not necessarily. If you have a solid foundation in basic morphology and syntax (e.g., you have completed the first half of Athenaze Vol. I or an equivalent traditional curriculum), our pre-term consultation will place you in the correct cohort.
Q: Is this course suitable for graduate students and scholars?
A: Yes. Many PhD students, researchers, and academics take our advanced levels to gain true reading fluency and eliminate the slow, painful process of dictionary-translation when engaging with their primary sources.
Q: What happens if I miss a live session?
A: Every class is recorded in high definition and posted to your secure student portal within 24 hours.
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Term begins Late September.
Class sizes are strictly capped to ensure small-group interaction.
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Payment plan available*
*Available for US customers onlyThis intermediate course significantly expands your narrative and communicative range by introducing the historical tenses. Participants follow the epic accounts of the Persian Wars, transitioning from present actions to past narratives while studying the imperfect and aorist tenses through active classroom immersion.
Instruction Language: Ancient Greek (Immersion)
Cohort A: Mon & Wed — 18:00 (Europe Time) / 12:00 PM (US East Coast Time)
Cohort B: Tue & Thu — 18:00 (US East Coast Time) / 24:00 (Europe Time)
Cohort C: Sat & Sun — 16:30 (Europe Time) / 10:30 AM (US East Coast Time)
Sept 14 – Dec 6, 2026
36h total (90-minute sessions)
This upper-intermediate course guides students into the second volume of the Athenaze series. Participants explore the sacred world of Greek religion and ancient medicine while expanding their grammar through the future tense, irregular -μι verbs, and introductory composition exercises.
Instruction Language: Ancient Greek (Immersion)
Cohort A: Mon & Wed — 18:00 (Europe Time) / 12:00 PM (US East Coast Time)
Cohort B: Tue & Thu — 18:00 (US East Coast Time) / 24:00 (Europe Time)
Cohort C: Sat & Sun — 16:30 (Europe Time) / 10:30 AM (US East Coast Time)
Sept 14 – Dec 6, 2026
36h total (90-minute sessions)
This upper-intermediate course continues your journey through the second volume of Athenaze, expanding your syntactical range and rhetorical competence. Participants transition into reading engaging historical narratives about Athenian civic life and the legendary encounters of King Croesus, applying advanced grammatical structures through active classroom immersion.
Instruction Language: Ancient Greek (Immersion)
Cohort A: Mon & Wed — 18:00 (Europe Time) / 12:00 PM (US East Coast Time)
Cohort B: Tue & Thu — 18:00 (US East Coast Time) / 24:00 (Europe Time)
Cohort C: Sat & Sun — 16:30 (Europe Time) / 10:30 AM (US East Coast Time)
Sept 14 – Dec 6, 2026
36h total (90-minute sessions)
This final upper-intermediate course brings your journey through the Athenaze curriculum to a dramatic conclusion. Participants will master the full system of the perfect and pluperfect tenses while reading celebrated accounts of Athenian naval supremacy and the resolution of the Croesus narrative, bridging the gap between textbook passages and original classical literature.
Instruction Language: Ancient Greek (Immersion)
Cohort A: Mon & Wed — 18:00 (Europe Time) / 12:00 PM (US East Coast Time)
Cohort B: Tue & Thu — 18:00 (US East Coast Time) / 24:00 (Europe Time)
Cohort C: Sat & Sun — 16:30 (Europe Time) / 10:30 AM (US East Coast Time)
Sept 14 – Dec 6, 2026
36h total (90-minute sessions)