I’ve noticed recently that the world of online Greek studies has gone silent. I’m not sure if this is due to the end of the school year or if people aren’t producing as many things for online consumption as they were a couple of years ago, but it’s not just my blog that has gone silent.
Mark Lightman (Markos33AD) used to make all kinds of fun videos that he uploaded to YouTube, but his last video was uploaded more than a year ago. Similarly, the online social media site ΣΧΟΛΗ (sxole.com) has had almost no activity over the last year. It was really becoming quite popular for a while, but it’s nearly died out. The B-Greek forum has very little activity, and GreekStudy has a couple of groups currently working through Herodotus and Xenophon, but it’s also operating with limited activity. I’ve done what I can to get some activity up on ΣΧΟΛΗ recently, but nothing started up.
The only site that I’ve noticed maintaining activity is the CARM Biblical Languages forum, which is less geared at language learning and more directed at using the biblical languages to inform theological opinions. The forum has been dominated for the past couple of years by an Internet troll who calls himself “John Milton” on CARM and “Isaac Newton” on Textkit. Although he represents the worst type of person with whom to interact with regard to the Greek language, he at least keeps the CARM forum moving. It’s sad because the world would be better off without such trollish behavior, but at the same time it’s good that CARM has some activity while the rest of the ancient Greek online world has so extremely slowed down.
Mark Lightman (Markos33AD) used to make all kinds of fun videos that he uploaded to YouTube, but his last video was uploaded more than a year ago. Similarly, the online social media site ΣΧΟΛΗ (sxole.com) has had almost no activity over the last year. It was really becoming quite popular for a while, but it’s nearly died out. The B-Greek forum has very little activity, and GreekStudy has a couple of groups currently working through Herodotus and Xenophon, but it’s also operating with limited activity. I’ve done what I can to get some activity up on ΣΧΟΛΗ recently, but nothing started up.
The only site that I’ve noticed maintaining activity is the CARM Biblical Languages forum, which is less geared at language learning and more directed at using the biblical languages to inform theological opinions. The forum has been dominated for the past couple of years by an Internet troll who calls himself “John Milton” on CARM and “Isaac Newton” on Textkit. Although he represents the worst type of person with whom to interact with regard to the Greek language, he at least keeps the CARM forum moving. It’s sad because the world would be better off without such trollish behavior, but at the same time it’s good that CARM has some activity while the rest of the ancient Greek online world has so extremely slowed down.
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