[B-Greek] Criteria for evaluating NT Greek Intro Grammars

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Feb 19 16:26:39 EST 2004


At 1:08 PM -0800 2/19/04, Mitch Larramore wrote:
>I got Athenaze for my birthday but have only glanced
>at it. One thing stands out based on comments made
>here: the reading sections are not actual Attic texts,
>but are creations of the authors. However, there is a
>lot of reading!

Right! BUT those narrative texts in Athenaze are carefully modeled upon
real Greek texts and they have been composed by authors who have done Greek
composition at an advanced level, a procedure that calls for close reading
of Greek texts in a variety of styles and endeavors to transpose paragraphs
or connected narratives into those styles. This is fundamentally different
from the older authors' writing out Greek sentences based as much or more
upon English vocabulary and grammar than upon segments of text derived or
carefully imitated from ancient originals.
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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