Greek Study Groups

From: Alun Williams via GreekStudy <greekstudy at quasillum dot com>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 19:15:26 -0000
Subject: Greek Activities:  Update for March 24 2025

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Donald Wright has paused his groups (marked ***) because of the situation in the Middle East

Group Listings:

Group: Homer's Odyssey Book 5 (Homer)
Coordinator: David Goldfarb <goldfarbdj at gmail dot com>
Text: posted
Assignments:
    Mar 23: 346-359
    Mar 30: 360-372
    Apr 06: 373-387
    Apr 13: 388-404
    Apr 20: 405-423
    Apr 27: 424-440

Group: Greek to GCSE, Part 2 (GAMMA)
Coordinator: Richard Moriarty <richardmoriarty0 at gmail dot com>
Text: John Taylor "Greek to GCSE - Part 2 (Revised Edition for OCR 2016)"
Assignments:
    25 Mar 124 PP.18 
    01 Apr 125 PP.19 A confused end to the battle

Group: Greek to GCSE, Part 1 (DELTA)
Text: John Taylor "Greek to GCSE - Part 2 (Revised Edition for OCR 2016)"
Coordinator: Richard Moriarty <richardmoriarty0 at gmail dot com>
Assignments:e"
    25 Mar ass. 32 8.31
    01 Apr ass. 33 8.32
    08 Apr ass. 34 8.33
    15 Apr ass. 35 8.34 and chapter 8 ends.
    22 Apr I am away from computers, no assignment, enjoy Easter revision!
    29 Apr ass. 36 9.1-2

Group: Eros at the Banquet (BANQUET)
Coordinator: Jennifer Margrison <jmargrison at gmail dot com>
Text: "Eros at the Banquet: Reviewing Greek with Plato's Symposium" by Louise Pratt
Assignments:
    Mar 27 Assignment 81 9C lines 14-29
    Apr 03 Assignment 82 9C 30-38
    Apr 10 Assignment  83 9C lines 39-52 (end of 9C)

Group: Greek New Testament (GNT)
Coordinator: Kelwin Wylie <greek at wylie dot ca>
Text: Greek New Testament, Suggested UBS 4 or Nestle-Aland 26 or later
Assignments:
    Feb 10  John 2:22-25 [End of ch. 2] **

Group: Anabasis 1 (Anabasis)
Coordinator: Jennifer Margrison <jmargrison at gmail dot com>
Text: Xenophon’s Anabasis Book I
Greek Text with Facing Vocabulary and Commentary First Edition © 2018 by Geoffrey Steadman
    Mar 27 II.13-14
    Apr 03 II.15-16
    Apr 10 II.17-18
    Apr 17 break for Easter
    Apr 24 II.19-20

Group: Thucydides (Thucydides)
Coordinator: Donald Wright <wrightdon5041 at outlook dot com>
Text: posted, and http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/graeca/Chronologia/S_ante05/Thukydides/thu_pe42.html  
Assignments:
    Oct 10: Book V para 22[2]-23[1] ***

Group: Polybius Histories (Polybius)
Coordinator: Donald Wright <wrightdon5041 at outlook dot com>
The plan is to follow Polybius' version of the Second Punic War relating to Hannibal up to the Roman debacle at Cannae,
and then if people are still interested to follow the career of Scipio Africanus in the war up to Hannibal's final defeat at Zama.
Text: posted, and http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0234%3Abook%3D3%3Achapter%3D13 
Assignments:
    Oct 10: Book III Chapter 70[4-6] ***

Group: Septuagint, Selections (Septuagint)
Coordinator: Donald Wright <wrightdon5041 at outlook dot com>
Text: posted, and https://archive.org/details/selectionsfroms01stocgoog/page/n121/mode/1up
Assignments: 
    Oct 11: Judges 20: 11-15 ***

Group: Xenophon's Memorabilia (Memorabilia)
Coordinator:  Donald Wright <wrightdon5041 at outlook dot com>
Text: posted, and http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~Harsch/graeca/Chronologia/S_ante04/Xenophon/xen_mem1.html
Assignments:  
    Oct 12: Book IV section 6[10] ***

Group: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Potter)
Coordinator: Donald Wright <wrightdon5041 at outlook dot com>
Text: JK Rowling's original, translated into Ancient Greek by Andrew Wilson
Assignments:
    Oct 21: Chapter 10 page 144.39 ἡ δ’ἀναλαβοῦσς Εἴ γ’ἄρα to TBC ***
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