[B-Greek] A Greek Boy at Home

James Ernest james.ernest at gmail.com
Tue Dec 29 15:33:02 EST 2009


Or (c), did Rouse have the faith to move mountains? Would take a lot, though
to move a whole range that far . . .
JDE

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Daniel, Robert S <rob.daniel at hp.com> wrote:

>
> 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 wa
>  s 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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