Beginning Greek with Homer

Author: Frank Beetham
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
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Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
This introduction to Homer assumes no prior knowledge of Greek. The first six sections deal with the elements of grammar that are a necessary preliminary to study. From the seventh section onwards the course proceeds through the "Odyssey", Book Five, with grammatical explanations and exercises.

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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1250

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Homeric Greek

Author: Clyde Pharr
Publisher:
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Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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A Reading Course in Homeric Greek, Book 1

Author: Raymond V. Schoder
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1585107042
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description
A Reading Course in Homeric Greek, Book One, Third Edition is a revised edition of the well respected text by Frs. Schoder and Horrigan. This text provides an introduction to Ancient Greek language as found in the Greek of Homer. Covering 120 lessons, readings from Homer begin after the first 10 lessons in the book. Honor work, appendices, and vocabularies are included, along with review exercises for each chapter with answers.

Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet

Author: Barry B. Powell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521589079
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
A challenging and fascinating enquiry into the genesis of alphabetic writing.

Money and the Early Greek Mind

Author: Richard Seaford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521539920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? In this book Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage, which produced the first ever thoroughly monetised society. By transforming social relations monetisation contributed to the ideas of the universe as an impersonal system, fundamental to Presocratic philosophy, and of the individual alienated from his own kin and from the gods, as found in tragedy.

A Reading Course in Homeric Greek

Author: Raymond V. Schoder
Publisher: Loyola Press
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Homer and the Artists

Author: Anthony Snodgrass
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521629812
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
This is a book about Homer, myth and art. The Iliad and Odyssey so dominate our view of ancient Greece that our natural reaction on viewing certain works of early Greek art is to identify them as 'scenes from Homer'. However, Anthony Snodgrass argues that, so far from 'illustrating' the Homeric poems, these works very rarely show signs of acquaintance with the Iliad or Odyssey, seldom even choosing their subject-matter from them. When the subjects do overlap, the artists occasionally give positive signs of preferring a non-Homeric version of the episode. He then attempts to explain why this should be so: despite Homer's unique standing in antiquity, the artists inhabited an independent world, where their own inspirations and concerns dominated their production. It is only the traditional dominance of the literary study of antiquity which has hidden this from us.

Beginner's Greek Book

Author: Allen Rogers Benner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer

Author: Roger D. Woodard
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195105206
Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 302

Book Description
Certain characteristic features of the Cypriot script - for example, its strategy for representing consonant sequences and elements of Cypriot Greek phonology - were transferred to the new alphabetic script. Proposing a Cypriot origin of the alphabet at the hands of previously literate adapters brings clarity to various problems of the alphabet, such as the Greek use of the Phoenician sibilant letters. The alphabet, rejected by the post-Bronze Age "Mycenaean" culture of Cyprus, was exported west to the Aegean, where it gained a foothold among a then illiterate Greek people emerging from the Dark Age. Woodard's study, a combination of philological and epigraphical investigation with linguistic theory, should be of interest to both scholars and students of classics, linguistics, and Near Eastern studies.