Greek Philologist and Linguist Thomais Sioura (1986) had an innovative idea for a mobile app, which was recently brought to life: an Ancient Greek to English dictionary app.
After four years of research, and a wealth of information from a thorough and comprehensive study of many auxiliary tools for the Ancient Greek language, Sioura composed an Ancient Greek to English database.
What does the app include?
It includes 120.000 lemmata, 2.000 words and phrases, 30.000 multiple choice questions for grammar practice, basic language theory and more. That database is the core of “Mentora”, an ancient Greek to English dictionary app, created by Sioura and a team of experts, for both Android and iOS mobile devices.
How does the app work?
Mentora is divided in four sections: Search, Phraseology, Basics and Practice
Search: Mentora offers basic and important information for over 120.000 words.
These words can be found in poetic texts of the Archaic and Classical periods, prose Classical texts, poetry and prose from the Hellenistic until the late antiquity.
Phraseology: The subscriber can see common phrases of the Ancient Greek language.
There is a catalogue of over 2.000 Words and Phrases with their specific, idiomatic or metaphoric meaning.
Basic language theory allows the subscriber to study the basics of the language.
For example, the alphabet, phonemes, letters, accents, breathing, words, syllabification, accentuation rules and punctuation marks.
Practice: The subscriber can take Ancient Greek tests.
He/she can practice through multiple choice questions in the accentuation, vocabulary and grammar.
“Mentora” aims to be an educational tool for the study of the Ancient Greek, Christian and early Byzantine language and literature.
