[B-Greek] A Greek Boy at Home
Daniel, Robert S
rob.daniel at hp.com
Tue Dec 29 14:38:26 EST 2009
Hi B-Greekers,
>From time to time members of the list have sent out a link to the WHD Rouse Greek course. Thank you for that! The list has been a valuable resource to me for providing information about other resources like this. I was hoping to get through the whole thing over my holiday break (2 weeks) but I guess that was a little unrealistic (my previous Greek background is about 1 year + of Koine). I've made it through 40 pages of the story part. I have been enjoying the challenge of trying to figure out what the new (to me) words mean just from the explanations given in the text, and in the accompanying vocabulary list. I can imagine, though, that many tears were shed over this book by those 14- and 15-year-old schoolboys it was written for. Sometimes it does a very good job of explaining new words, but sometimes it is very difficult to figure out what they mean. The explanation of the words for human body parts, for example, was quite straightforward, but the part on parts of boats was quite difficult, even with the vocabulary list.
I think I will try to get all the way through it without cheating and resorting to a full-scale Greek-English lexicon. I have BDAG, but of course it doesn't include many of the words in "A Greek Boy." Maybe someone can suggest a good lexicon for Attic once I am ready for that?
One question: on p. 2 of "A Greek Boy" it says that the Pyranees are in Hibernia. I thought that was Ireland. The Pyranees are in Iberia. Is that a misspelling in "A Greek Boy" (hIBERNIA) or is that actually how Iberia was spelled in Attic?
BTW, some pages of the online copy are smudged near the margins. Maybe some enterprising soul who has the original can post some clearer copies of the smudged pages? I wonder if the smudges are tear stains :-) ?
Rob
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