Reading Greek

Steven R. Lo Vullo slovullo at mac.com
Tue Dec 24 17:10:43 EST 2002


On Tuesday, December 24, 2002, at 02:10 PM, Carl Conrad wrote:

> The commentary by John Burnet that Brent Hudson mentions is good, but I
> think it helps more with cultural background and philosophical concerns
> than it does with the Greek problems likely to confront one without 
> much
> background in classical Attic. I have a page on my web-site originally
> prepared to help out first-year students who want to keep alive their
> Greek during summer months before starting the second year. There are 
> two
> or three commentaries listed there for early Platonic dialogues that I
> think may be more helpful than the the Burnet one:
>
>      http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/moregrk.html
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu

I would just like to add that the University of Wisconsin (Madison) 
Extension offers a series of correspondence courses on Classical Greek 
that includes a second semester course covering Plato's Crito. The 
first half of the course finishes Crosby & Schaeffer's text, and the 
second half is devoted to the reading of the Crito. There is both a 
study guide and a facsimile copy of the Crito with John Burnet's notes. 
The study guide deals with many of the Greek problems that Carl 
mentions above, so the combination of Burnet's notes and the study 
guide serve the student pretty well. If anyone is interested in getting 
more information on these courses, contact me off-list.
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Steven R. Lo Vullo
Madison, WI




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