[B-Greek] the Knowledge of Ancient Greek
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Feb 21 20:06:50 EST 2006
For one there's Dionysius Thrax (ca. 170-ca. 90 BC); we discussed his
grammar last August, I believe. You can view the text at:
http://tinyurl.com/kqqny
On Feb 21, 2006, at 5:35 PM, Terry and Gail Cook wrote:
> Dr Buth wrote, "We have ancient Greek writings by greeks about
> their own
> language...". Would you kindly point us in the direction of such
> writings?
> Terry Cook
> sDg
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "R Yochanan Bitan Buth" <ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il>
> To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 7:21 PM
> Subject: [B-Greek] the Knowledge of Ancient Greek
>
>
>>> Hi friends,
>> I have a rather simple question on the history of ancient greek.
>> How do
>> modern scholars "know" today that the grammar rules that we hold
>> to for
>> koine greek are the correct ones? This might sound like a foolish
>> question,
>> but did they discover ancient greek grammar papyrii for children??
>> Or..
>> what? Did they simply decipher the greek rules from looking at
>> thousands
>> of
>> manuscripts?
>> Hehe.. thanks for answering my silly question. Just curious I
>> suppose..
>> God
>> bless you!
>> Seth>
>>
>>
>>
>> Answer: Both. We have ancient Greek writings by greeks about their
>> own
>> language and we have millions of words of the language in context.
>> Not to
>> mention translation into other languages.
>>
>>
>>
>> However, [*!*] not knowing what rules you or anyone might hold to,
>> and
>> knowing that there are differences in the way people would
>> describe any
>> language, then my comment above may not apply at all.
>>
>>
>>
>> Blessings
>>
>> Randall Buth
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Randall Buth, PhD
>>
>> Director, Biblical Language Center
>>
>> www.BiblicalUlpan.org
>>
>> buth at jerusalemschool.org
>>
>> and Lecturer, Biblical Hebrew
>>
>> Rothberg, Hebrew University
>>
>> ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
>>
>>
>>
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