[B-Greek] Traveling Alone & the death of Perseus

Dr. Don Wilkins drdwilkins at sbcglobal.net
Fri Apr 13 13:18:56 EDT 2007


Everyone has since noted the Perseus situation. It truly is a good/ 
bad news situation: bad in that it's been painfully slow (and  
hopefully will be much faster), good in that it's so popular.

Kudos for translating Thucydides cold turkey! One of the benefits is  
that you'll see options in the text (as long as you're parsing  
correctly) that might not occur to you if you were following someone  
else's translation (which could sometimes be wrong). You also get a  
better appreciation of Greek style.

Don Wilkins

On Apr 13, 2007, at 8:19 AM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:

> Yesterday I was having some trouble with an obscure word in
> Thucydides and for the first time in months tried to access Perseus
> and found out it was "down". I solved my problem without Perseus.
>
> I wonder how many NT greek students who have been at it for a number
> of years have ever tried reading some new and unfamiliar text with
> nothing but a lexicon and a grammar. The first time I tried this
> (decades ago) it was a terrifying experience. It really brought home
> how little I new about the language.
>
> I have ben traveling alone in the narrative of Thucydides now for
> several months and find it more tolerable than traveling alone with
> any of the tragic playwrights. A good commentary is still helpful
> when reading tragedy.
>
> Reading the GNT with all the electronic tools at your fingertips and
> all the printed resources isn't going to tell you if you know greek.
> All of these resources are great and I use them regularly but at some
> point along the way it is healthy to pick up a Greek text you have
> never read in your native tongue and spend some time traveling alone
> with LS (intermed.), LSJ and H.W.Smyth. It certainly trims some of
> the fat from your ego if nothing else.
>
>
> Elizabeth Kline
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