[B-Greek] Help with Ionic Greek

Mark Lightman lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 6 23:54:31 EDT 2009


Hi James:
 
There are tons of good resources that will familiarize you with Homeric
Greek, which is pretty close to Herodotus.  You can find many old
school editions of the Epics free on Google Books.  These usually include
short grammars with particular attention devoted to how the Homeric
forms differ from Attic/Koine.  Pharr, Benner, Sterrett are all great,
Draper and Beetham more recently.
 
Once you can read Homer you can read Herodotus, though
you won't want to.   I've never seen a grammar devoted only
to Herodotus, though I'm sure there is one.
 
I'm curious what made you want to go from the Greek NT to Herodotus.
If you want tedious history and uninspired Greek,
why not stick to Xenophon, where you can at least be
bored in Attic?  If you DO take the trouble to learn Ionic,
why not read Homer?
 
Mark L


FWSFOROS MARKOS

--- On Thu, 8/6/09, James Bowick <james at bowick.com> wrote:


From: James Bowick <james at bowick.com>
Subject: [B-Greek] Help with Ionic Greek
To: "B Greek" <B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009, 9:07 PM


Hi folks,

My background in New Testament Greek is not giving me the information I need
as I try to venture into the Greek of Herodotus.  I am hitting forms that
are not familiar from Koine and are also not in the Attic grammar I found in
our library  (the closest I could find).  Any suggestions on how to deal
with this?

Thanks,

James Bowick
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