[B-Greek] Reading Philo and Papyri [was "reading Homer and period literature"]

Smith William mashalomcha at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 15 22:56:28 EDT 2004


Randall Buth wrote,

>Thus, if NT is a focus I would recommend Josephus,
Epictetus and 
> Plutarch, plus papyri, as more fruitful than Homer.


Again, Randall Buth wrote,

> This is where the Rouse book comes in so handy, easy
flowing 
> narrative, purposefully spoon-fed, 100+ pages. After
such an 
> introduction a person might enjoy mixing works like
Joseph and 
> Asnat (admittedly highly Semitized, but an easy and
'new' read for 
> most) with a purer Greek like Aesop's fables. Aesop
has an 
> advantage of being very short, but the vocabulary
usually needs 
> prompting since there is no long contextual buildup.
Another 'low lit' > read is something like the
"Ephesians" romance by Xenophon of 
> Ehesus, a long book that uses shorter sentences than
Josephus.


Arie Dirkzwager wrote,

> He proposed several authors. I would like to add:
Apollodorus 
> (mythological), Pausanias (a guide for tourists with
many historical 
> passages), historical parts of the LXX (e.g. the
history of Joseph in 
> Genesis !!), Lucianus (ALHQHS hISTORIA and e.g. BIWN
PRASIS), 
> Euclid (if you like mathematics) and even Plato
(historical passages 
> about the death of Socrates), Xenophon (Oeconomicus,
e.g. chapter > 7 ff. about Ischomachus and his wife).
If you have an interest in 
> philosophy Diogenes Laertius could be rewarding.


Thanks for the suggestions! How would reading Philo
be, if one's interest was in NT?

Also, what would be a good accessible source for
reading papyri, where they wouldn't be too
fragmentary. (I do have Moulton & Milligan.)

William Smith


		
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