[B-Greek] Introduction, post-Wenham and the Greek fathers

John McChesney-Young panis at pacbell.net
Tue Oct 17 10:34:08 EDT 2006


At 9:02 AM -0400 10/17/06, James Ernest wrote in part:

... The
>Migne Patrologia Graeca has good Latin translations on the same page
>with the Greek text. Hard to buy your own Migne, but you can probably
>photocopy some pages at a library.

Many volumes of the PG are now available (after a fashion) via Google Books:

http://tinyurl.com/t5e97

or go to http://books.google.com and search for "Patrologia Graeca" 
and then select the "Full view books" option and do a limited search.

Unfortunately, Google Books doesn't seem to have handled the column 
numbers of the the PG very well and navigation can be problematic. 
Finding a particular volume of the series is difficult, too. One 
volume I looked into was wildly out of order, with a sequence of 
pages (in effect) of 1, 67, 3, 69, 5, 71, etc.; the digitizations of 
Google Books in general are quite uneven, with relatively few public 
domain books I've looked at carefully done as well as might have been 
hoped - unlike e.g. Gallica at the BNF, which for all its interface 
annoyances and occasional indistinct scans (usually when reproduced 
from old microforms) rarely omits pages or displays ones with the 
technician's hand obscuring part of the text.

As far as JE's suggestion goes, though, you'll certainly be able to 
find extensive chunks of the PG which are suitable for printing out 
and practicing Greek on.

For a more expensive option but one cheaper - and more compact - than 
buying the print set [[1]], see also:

http://rosetta.reltech.org/reltech/PG/

John

[[1]] http://www.brepols.net/publishers/patristics.htm. I don't know 
the price, but about 10 years ago I bought a volume of the PL new and 
it was about $60, as I recall.
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*** John McChesney-Young  **  panis~at~pacbell.net  **   Berkeley, 
California, U.S.A.  ***



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