[B-Greek] reading Euclid
Susan Jeffers
susan at read-the-bible.org
Fri Jun 12 09:07:21 EDT 2009
Hello b-greekers --
Here's a wonderful pair of websites I discovered yesterday, particularly
for folks like myself, with a much stronger math-and-science background
than literature-and-classics:
http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/euclid.html
which offers (scroll down) a free downloadable pdf of Euclid's Elements
with Greek and English next to one another, and lexicon (just quick
glosses, but very helpful) in the back. I like it so much, I've ordered
the print-on-demand paper copy also offered. But the pdf is very good.
and
http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/index.htm
which gives some background on Euclid himself and his work, then a
complete course on the math and the Greek of Euclid's /Elements/.
The great thing about Euclid's Elements, for Greek students, is that it
starts off with short declarative sentences that define terms, and then
builds up the structure step by step... of course it helps if you loved
Geometry class in high school.....
Susan Jeffers
long-time lurker, occasional poster
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