[B-Greek] reading Philo and Papyri [was "reading Homer and periodliterature"]
Arie Dirkzwager
dirkzwager at pandora.be
Mon Aug 16 12:05:56 EDT 2004
Some more suggestions:
- Hero(n)das, the third mime. Very pleasant and lively !
- Menander, DUSKOLOS. I used it myself in school after the first real author
and before the "important" authors. You can even ignore the metre and read
it purely for the Greek language.
- Epigrams from the Anthologia Palatina.
- Hanno, PERIPLOUS of Africa.
- (Pseudo?-) Aristotle, On the Cosmos
Arie
Dr. A. Dirkzwager
Hoeselt, Belgium
e-mail dirkzwager at pandora.be
----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
Van: "R Yochanan Bitan Buth" <ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il>
Aan: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Verzonden: maandag 16 augustus 2004 9:41
Onderwerp: [B-Greek] reading Philo and Papyri [was "reading Homer and
periodliterature"]
> >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
>
> I find Philo horribly long-winded and boring. A chacun son gout 'to each
his
> own taste'
> For papyri some of the most interesting letters were already collected
close
> to a century ago in the Loeb series "Select Papyri". Start there, then
there
> are old volumes of papyri in libraries and recent collections have been
> appearing regularly.
>
> There are also many gems hidden in published authors. Last night I was
> reading a delightful story in Dio Chrysostom (40 CE - 120 CE, similar to
> Plutarch). The seventh discourse begins with a 23 page story about two
> peasants living off the land in Euboea. Great cultural background stuff in
> an unpretentious but typically Greek style. Some humor between the lines.
It
> seems that Dio was converted from sophistry later in life and returned to
a
> common sense ethic "show me" (don't just wax elequent).
>
> Blessings
>
> Randall Buth
>
>
>
>
>
> Randall Buth, PhD
>
> Director, Biblical Language Center
>
> www.biblicalulpan.org
>
> and Director, Biblical Studies in Israel
>
> Hebrew University, Rothberg International School
>
> ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
>
>
>
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