Reading Greek

Robert Kaster rkaster at comcast.net
Mon Dec 23 22:10:28 EST 2002



Carl Conrad wrote:

>> I would agree fundamentally with this; more often than not, the Apology
>> has been the starting-point for second-year courses in Greek that I
taught
>> over the years. The one caveat about the Apology is that it's got a lot
of
>> colloquial idiomatic stuff in it that replicates the mannerisms of
>> Socrates as Plato remembered them (or chose to represent them)--so you do
>> need a good commentary to help with those since you don't find those
>> colloquialisms very readily in a lexicon

Dear Carl,
I have been (slowly) working my way through Biblical Greek at night and on
weekends.
I had been thinking about reading some Plato in Greek, this has pushed me
over the
edge.  Could you recommend a "good commentary" suited for studying Plato in
Greek?

Thanks for your help,

Bob Kaster
White Lake, Michigan
Electrical Engineer by day, wanna-be Greek student by night




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