The A. Richard Diebold Center for Indo-European Language and Culture has a section of Early Indo-European Languages Online that features material on Latin, Classical Greek, Old Church Slavonic, Classical Armenian, and Old Iranian.
…Grammars published as introductions to the early languages are produced on the pattern of those designed for instruction of secondary school students. They were expected to take eight years of Latin, six of Greek and then move to the study of Sanskrit and other less widely studied languages like Old Slavic, Armenian, and Avestan. Under curricula of today, few scholars find such a course of study acceptable.
Moreover, the important ability with respect to these languages is that of reading texts, with or without the help of translations. The online introductions in Early Indo-European Languages Online are designed to provide such ability. In this series, texts that in themselves are valuable for literary and historical as well as linguistic purposes are briefly introduced, glossed word-by-word, accompanied by grammatical descriptions, and followed by a complete glossary. For example, the third through fifth units of the introduction to Latin contain Julius Caesar’s descriptions of the early Germanic people, which we assume from our reading of Herodotus and other early historians might also apply to the Indo-European peoples several millennia earlier. Other texts are important selections of literature, such as the opening lines of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Still others are important theological texts.
Many thanks to Nephelokokkygia for this resource.
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