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Interested in teaching or learning Greek in your homeschool? This helpful free video from youtube will have get you started on the right track.

Are you unclear on how to best pronounce the letters in the Greek alphabet? Use this free youtube Greek language lesson to get you started!

1.  Philosophical.
 Process of forming concepts or categories as “Appearance and reality,” “Form and change,” etc.
2. Educational .  Method of dialogue tending to reach the formation of a general truth relating to conduct or life.
3. Psychological.  Formation of concepts from percepts.
4. Logical.  Resolution of a species into a genus or the reverse.
5. Scientific.   Induction of general principles [...]

What are the 3 components of the Trivium? Grammar, Dialectic (also known as Logic), and Rhetoric. What are the 4 components of the Quadrivium? Arithmetic, Music, Geometry, Astronomy.

Comparisons to other city-states:
Spartan education is public, Athenian is private.
Sparta educates for war, Athens for peace.
Childhood
(1 to 7 years)

Family education
Plays, myths, stories
Care of the mother

Boyhood (1 to 14 years, School)

Promenade to school under the care of a pedagogue
Music

Poetry, Homer, Hesiod.
Writing of verses from dictation
Reading, intonation, articulation.
Music proper. Doric airs accompanied by the lyre [...]

What sort of education did the ancient Spartan’s receive? Here is a list of their educational methods from birth to manhood, taken from the “Outline History of Education”.

Outline History of Education By Felix Arnold
This 109 page public domain book from 1911, written in outline form, details the many educational theories and style of education that has evolved over the course of human history. It’s a very interesting read for anyone who is interested in a psychological overview of education and [...]

The following article was found in Greek for Beginners … By Edward Gustin Coy, and written well over 100 years ago.  In it, the author discusses the value of rote memorization of facts and making use of a child’s active memory.  You can view and then download this entire free lesson book by clicking on [...]

The following 152 page textbook, Greek for Beginners, was published as a companion lesson text for 1884 Hadley-Allen Greek Grammar, a standard “classical text book”, used in the bygone days when all higher educated Americans learned Greek and studied the classics.  It was designed for the older beginning greek student (high school and beyond) includes [...]

This engaging, teacher-friendly guide provides the latest research on strategies, ideas, and resources for teaching Greek and Latin roots-prefixes, suffixes, and bases. It introduces the vocabulary learning strategies that will improve comprehension and content vocabulary knowledge. Change the way you teach vocabulary with this book and start students on the path to a lifelong enjoyment [...]

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Are you or your child learning Greek? 
These fabulous flashcards will get that alphabet memorized in no time.

The classical method evokes the midieval style of learning that focuses on the Trivium.  It is a liberal arts education, with loads of reading some of the “best works in literature in the western world”. 
This method focuses on teaching children according to ages and their mental stages - building upon one another as the child reaches [...]