Reading Greek
Brent Hudson
brent at riveroflifembchurch.com
Mon Dec 23 23:45:48 EST 2002
I found John Burnet's notes to be most helpful in reading Euthyphro, the Apology & Crito. His edition is published by Oxford.
Brent Hudson
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On 12/23/2002 Robert Kaster wrote:
>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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