{{Short description|Collection of literary passages for studying}} {{more citations needed|date=June 2016}} A '''chrestomathy''' ({{IPAc-en|k|r|ɛ|ˈ|s|t|ɒ|m|ə|θ|i}} {{respell|kreh|STOM|ə|thee}}; from the Ancient Greek {{lang|grc|χρηστομάθεια}} {{grc-transl|χρηστομάθεια}} 'desire of learning', from {{lang|grc|χρηστός}} {{grc-transl|χρηστός}} 'useful' + {{lang|grc|μανθάνω}} {{grc-transl|μανθάνω}} 'learn')<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 23, 2026 |title=Chrestomathy |url=https://www.wordgenius.com/words/chrestomathy |website=Word Genius}}</ref> is a collection of selected literary passages (usually from a single author); a selection of literary passages from a foreign language assembled for studying the language; or a text in various languages, used especially as an aid in learning a subject. thumb|A "phono-chrestomathy" of Tatar music In philology or in the study of literature, it is a type of reader that presents a sequence of example texts, selected to demonstrate the development of language or literary style. It is different from an anthology because of its didactic purpose.
== Examples == * Bernhard Dorn, ''A Chrestomathy of the Pushtū or Afghan language'', St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1847 * H. L. Mencken, ''A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of his Choicest Writing'', New York: Alfred P. Knopf, 1949 * L. L. Zamenhof, {{lang|eo|Fundamenta Krestomatio de la Lingvo Esperanto}}, Paris: Hachette, 1903<ref>{{cite web |last=Zamenhof |first=L. L. |author-link=L. L. Zamenhof |date=1 June 2005 |title=Fundamenta Krestomatio |via=Project Gutenberg |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8224}}</ref> * Edward Ullendorff, ''A Tigrinya Chrestomathy'', Stuttgart: Steiner Werlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1985. * ''Bilingual Greek-Latin Grammar'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Anemi - Digital Library of Modern Greek Studies |website=anemi.lib.uoc.gr |url=https://anemi.lib.uoc.gr/metadata/0/8/6/metadata-155-0000034.tkl}}</ref> by Georgios Dimitriou, 1785, that contained personal observations, Epistles and Maxims, as well as biographies of notable men.<ref>{{cite book |last=Merry |first=Bruce |year=2004 |title=Encyclopedia of modern Greek literature |edition=1. publ. |publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Westport, Conn. [u.a.] |isbn=978-0-313-30813-0 |pages=70 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-lr20SuvfIC&pg=PA394}}</ref> * ''Rosetta Code'', "a programming chrestomathy site", which "present[s] solutions to the same task in as many different [computer] languages as possible". * ''The Ibis Chrestomathy'', dealing "solely with words that have a claim to naturalization within the English language".<ref>{{cite web |first=Amitav |last=Ghosh |title=Chrestomathy |website=AmitavGhosh.com |url=http://www.amitavghosh.com/chrestomathy.html |access-date=2016-10-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161024044625/http://www.amitavghosh.com/chrestomathy.html |archive-date=2016-10-24 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * Heather Christle, ''The Crying Book'', Catapult: 2019. Explores the subject of crying and tears in a numbered series of extremely short essays.
== See also == * {{section link|Lord's Prayer#Use as a language comparison tool}} * Parallel text * Text corpus
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