Write English and get Classical Attic Greek in full polytonic script, or paste Plato, Homer or the New Testament and read it in clear English. Built for students, writers and anyone who has ever wanted to say something the way Socrates would.
Ancient Greek is not one language but a family of dialects. This translator writes Attic Greek by default - the Greek of Athens in the 5th and 4th centuries BC, used by Plato, Thucydides and the tragedians, and the form taught in most university courses. It also reads Homeric (epic) Greek and Koine, the common Greek of the New Testament. Ancient Greek is richly inflected, has a dual number for pairs, a middle voice and a famous forest of particles - and it is written in polytonic script, with accents and breathing marks that this translator keeps intact.
Greetings, courtesies and lines every classicist knows, in polytonic Greek. The right-hand column is a standard transliteration (ō and ē mark long vowels), not a modern Greek pronunciation.
Many tools quietly hand you Modern Greek, or strip the diacritics off. translator.im aims for real Attic Greek, written the way your textbook prints it.
Acute, grave and circumflex accents, rough and smooth breathings and iota subscripts are all kept - as in ἀνθρώπῳ - so the output looks like an edition, not a text message.
Ancient Greek marks case, number, gender, voice, mood and aspect in its endings. The model reads the whole sentence before choosing forms, which is where word-swap tools fall apart.
One box works in both directions. Write English to get Attic, or swap and paste Plato, Homer or the Gospels to get English.
Attic is the default. Mention Homeric or Koine (New Testament) Greek and the vocabulary and forms will follow that dialect.
Image mode reads printed Greek from a screenshot or textbook photo in your browser. You can correct the recognised text before translating - small accents and breathings are the most common misreads.
Copy the Greek with one tap, or use Listen to hear it. Device voices speak Modern Greek, so the audio is not a reconstruction of Classical pronunciation.
Students racing a prose composition, readers wrestling with Plato, writers naming a ship or a starship - Greek still gets around.
Paste a line from the dialogues and get a faithful English rendering to check against your own reading.
Draft your English-to-Greek exercises yourself, then compare with a clean Attic version to spot the wrong ending or missing augment.
Homeric Greek has its own forms and vocabulary. Paste a line of the Iliad or Odyssey and get a readable English version.
Compare the Greek of the Gospels with English, word by word, for Bible study and seminary courses.
A few habits that get you closer to what a classics professor would write.
When you paste Greek, keep accents and breathings if you have them - they distinguish words such as ἤ ("or") and ἥ ("who", feminine). Unaccented input usually works, but it is more ambiguous.
The default is Attic. Add "Homeric Greek" or "Koine Greek" to your request if you are writing for an epic pastiche or a New Testament class, since spellings and forms differ (Attic θάλαττα vs Koine θάλασσα).
Greek adjectives, participles and even "my friend" change with gender: ὦ φίλε to a man, ὦ φίλη to a woman. Tell the translator who you mean and it will choose correctly.
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