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Learning to read Ancient Greek. The insights into language and culture just keep coming...
by awt 10y ago
Learning to read Ancient Greek. The insights into language and culture just keep coming...
- arcanus 10y agoWhat have you been reading? I loved Anabasis (not too tough for a beginner like me), trying to read Ethics.
- awt 10y agoI'm still mostly working through my textbook, but I've read part of an interlinear translation of the Anabasis. I'm reading through parts of Plato's Apology with a group. My goal is to be able to read at least one of Aristotle's books, and perhaps Herodotus and Homer. Regarding Anabasis, the scene in which the 10000 put on a show for the Queen of Kilikia (who is rumored to be sleeping with Cyrus), ending it with a fake charge scattering the onlookers struck me as profoundly humorous.