[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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