[B-Greek] studying Homeric Greek
Steven Lo Vullo
slovullo at mac.com
Sat Aug 14 22:06:37 EDT 2004
On Aug 14, 2004, at 9:02 PM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
> I think there's something to be said for it IF one intends to read
> through
> any significant amount of Greek literature from the whole range of
> antiquity; I had a colleague who did, in fact, teach Homeric Greek to
> beginners using Pharr when he did the Beginning Greek class at WU.
> When I
> taught it, I used the JACT "Reading Greek" program which was
> programmed to
> prepare students to go in any direction in the follow-up course,
> whether it
> be Homeric, Classical Attic prose or verse, or NT. I think one can
> make the
> transition from later to earlier stages of Greek (I did it myself) but
> I
> don't know that I'd urge one to begin with Homeric Greek unless one
> DOES
> plan to read a lot from the entire Greek literary corpus.
Makes sense.
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Steven Lo Vullo
Madison, WI
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