Hellenistic Greek Reader
Dan and Rachel King
dan_rach at ntlworld.com
Mon Aug 19 08:58:59 EDT 2002
I'm currently using the Wikgren book to which you refer. When you say that
it is overemphasising Christian writings, you may be correct (tho' in fact,
there is only 1 chapter each of OT and NT passages, with one for Jewish
pseudepigrapha and one of Christian fathers, which might be counted as being
close to biblical). However, as an introduction to Hellenistic Greek having
come from a classical Greek education, I have found it very helpful. It
actually has a good 60 pages of pagan Hellenistic Greek including e.g.
Diogenes Laertius, Arrian's Epictetus, Lucian etc. Plus an excellent
vocabulary list. Seeing as most students of the period are, in fact, most
likely to be interested in Judaism and Christianity, the balance seems fair
enough to me. The introduction does, after all, announce the book as "an
intro. to the Greek literature of Judaism, Christianity and pagan religion
of the period between Alexander and Constantine."
yours,
Dan King
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Ghilardi" <qodeshlayhvh at juno.com>
To: "Biblical Greek" <b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 12:37 PM
Subject: [b-greek] Hellenistic Anthology Revisited
> I see that my recent post on this topic has been ignored. So here it is
> again.
>
> Dear B-greekers,
>
> What is the best collection of Hellenistic prose writings in Greek? I am
> aware of one book with the same title as in the subject header, but it
> contains poetry only. I am also aware of Allen Wikgren's work from the
> '40's, but that book contains, IMHO, a disproportionately large amount of
> Biblical/Christian materials. It does have some interesting pieces from
> the papyri. I just picked up a more recent book (2001) by C. D. N. Costa
> called **Greek Fictional Letters** which, in the nature of the case, is
> mostly Hellenistic. I'm curious to see what all of you recommend.
>
> Yours in His grace,
>
> Richard Ghilardi -- qodeshlayhvh at juno.com
> New Haven, CT USA
>
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