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- August 8th, 2019, 5:55 am
- Forum: Eleanor Dickey: Composition and Analysis of Greek Prose
- Topic: [Dickey] Ch 1: Sentences
- Replies: 8
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Re: Dickey, Composition: Ch 1, Sentences
Hmm, thanks for working through these Eric! 12. Yes, I took it as 'horses as a class'! 17. αἰεί? ah, that's the Homeric influence corrupting me! 29. I took books as a class of objects for the same reason as in 12. Even though Dickey gives ἐν ἀγορᾷ as a specific example of losing the article, I'm res...
- August 6th, 2019, 6:30 am
- Forum: Eleanor Dickey: Composition and Analysis of Greek Prose
- Topic: [Dickey] Ch 1: Sentences
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13078
Re: Dickey, Composition: Ch 1, Sentences
I certainly don't think I would take all of Dickey's advice on board. Or, rather, I don't really agree with her pedagogical position. Anyway, I've done some of chapter 1 sentences so far: 1. ὁ ἵππος τὸν δεσπότην φέρει. 2. ὁ μὲν φέρει βιβλίον, ὁ δέ οὐ. 3. οἱ ποιηταὶ οὐκ ἀεὶ εὖ βουλεύονται. 4. οἱ ποιη...
- July 28th, 2019, 3:54 pm
- Forum: Eleanor Dickey: Composition and Analysis of Greek Prose
- Topic: [Dickey] Group Progress
- Replies: 24
- Views: 43018
Re: Group Working Through Dickey's Greek Composition
I do plan to work on this, I don't plan on doing the accents chapter though. But I should be contributing to chapters 1 and onwards.
- July 22nd, 2019, 1:52 am
- Forum: Eleanor Dickey: Composition and Analysis of Greek Prose
- Topic: [Dickey] Group Progress
- Replies: 24
- Views: 43018
Re: Group Working Through Dickey's Greek Composition
I tend to think the more subdivided the threads, actually the better. So yes, I'd like to see threads for each chapter as:
"general questions about the grammar raised", then "preliminary exercises", "sentences", and "prose analysis".
"general questions about the grammar raised", then "preliminary exercises", "sentences", and "prose analysis".
- November 29th, 2018, 5:27 am
- Forum: Beginners Forum
- Topic: John 1:18 μονογενὴς
- Replies: 13
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Re: John 1:18 μονογενὴς
Since Mike has been kind enough to reference my work, I have 2 papers on this, one the direct result of that SBL presentation, currently in the limbo of the "resubmitted" part of "revise and resubmit", focused on all 470 references to μονογενής in Athanasius, Basil, and the two G...
- August 2nd, 2018, 6:43 pm
- Forum: Other
- Topic: Pronouncing passage references (e.g. Κατά Ιωάννην 1:1-2)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 16023
Re: Pronouncing passage references (e.g. Κατά Ιωάννην 1:1-2)
I have used/heard ἁπὸ and μέχρι for specifying range. Ordinals are preferred but I confess to lapsing to cardinals when my brain can't bring up the right ordinal.
- April 14th, 2018, 7:58 am
- Forum: Church Fathers and Patristic Greek Texts
- Topic: Grammatical question about Barnabas 4:9.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3725
Re: Grammatical question about Barnabas 4:9.
Any article will suffice for using an adjective substantivally. A neuter will either make it a definite 'black thing', or the abstracted quality, 'blackness'. But a gendered pronoun will almost certainly make it personal, and that's what's going on in Barnabas 4:9, ὁ μέλας - the Black One.
- February 9th, 2018, 7:18 am
- Forum: Church Fathers and Patristic Greek Texts
- Topic: help with prayer text, please
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3769
Re: help with prayer text, please
The text does seem odd, I just thought I should add that κἄν is generally crasis for καὶ + ἄν or καὶ + εἰ + ἄν, and the addition of the εἰ might make this more intelligible.
- January 28th, 2018, 4:45 am
- Forum: Teaching Methods
- Topic: B-Greek as a platform for teachers
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12424
Re: B-Greek as a platform for teachers
I tend to read B-Greek a lot more than I post, but I thought I'd jump in and say that I did try and run an online group through Dickey's composition book. We got to about ch 6/7 before things fizzled. Two main factors, I suspect. 1) It's a considerable time investment, more than I think most partici...
- April 6th, 2017, 7:11 am
- Forum: Teaching Methods
- Topic: Where Are Your Keys' Universal Speed Curriculum
- Replies: 37
- Views: 46580
Re: Where Are Your Keys' Universal Speed Curriculum
Ben,
I'm interested in why you went for the participial structure for "the one having the cup", rather than using a dative or a relative pronoun. Not because I think it's necessarily wrong, just the logic of your choice intrigues me.
Seumas
I'm interested in why you went for the participial structure for "the one having the cup", rather than using a dative or a relative pronoun. Not because I think it's necessarily wrong, just the logic of your choice intrigues me.
Seumas