A Free Online Talk on Linguistics and the Classics

October 20, 2026 · By Maciek Gdula

A Reading from Homer by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1885): on a marble terrace above the sea, a young man crowned with laurel reads aloud from a scroll, while a young man in blue beside a lyre, a woman in white with a tambourine and red flowers, and a youth lying on an animal skin listen — Lawrence Alma-Tadema, “A Reading from Homer” (1885), Philadelphia Museum of Art. Public domain.

On Saturday, October 24, 2026 I’m giving a free online talk for the Lost Worlds Institute, sponsored by the Classical Association of New England. It’s on Zoom (12:00 to 13:00 New York time, 18:00 to 19:00 in Warsaw), with time for questions at the end.

I’ll talk about where linguistics and the classics meet: what Ancient Greek can teach us about the study of languages as a whole, and why the diversity of languages matters for culture and history. The Lost Worlds Institute runs these talks to bring high school students closer to linguistics as it’s studied at university, and this one is open to everyone.

Registration is free on the event page. And if you’re new to the language, my guide on how to learn Ancient Greek covers how to get started.

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