Greek Study Groups

From: Alun Williams via GreekStudy <greekstudy at quasillum dot com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 08:30:49 -0000
Subject: Greek Activities:  Update for December 16 2024

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Donald Wright has paused his groups (marked ***) because of the situation in the Middle East
A message from Jenny Margrison:
Hi All,
I will be starting a new group shortly: we will translate about 9 or 10 lines of Xenophon's Anabasis Book 1, known for fairly easy but good Attic Greek.
This is available for free as a download or as an inexpensive printed version from Steadman's excellent site.
I am aiming for about a page of this edition a week, but we will end at the end of sentences, naturally.  
https://geoffreysteadman.com/xenophon-anabasis-i/
There are many other useful resources, I will list some in a later email. The group name will be Anabasis1. 
Please email me at jmargrison at gmail dot com if you are interested in participating. 
I am thinking of sending out the first assignment on or soon after December 5,  but I would be happy to delay if participants need more time. 

Group Listings:

Group: Homer's Odyssey Book 5 (Homer)
Coordinator: David Goldfarb <goldfarbdj at gmail dot com>
Text: posted
Assignments:
    Dec 15: 135-150
    Dec 22: 151-164
    Dec 29: No assignment (Christmas break)

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:
    17 Dec PP.4 Athens appeals for help (just submit the translation)
    24 Dec for those like me who like to study in holidays: PP.5 Athenian generals at Marathon divided
    31 Dec PP.6 The Athenian charge (just the translation)

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:
    17 Dec ass. 18 8.1-8.3
    24 Dec ass. 19 for those like me who like to study in holidays: 8.4-8.5
    31 Dec ass. 20 8.6

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:
    Dec 19 Assignment 69 Reading 8a 26-39
    Break
    Jan 09 Assignment 70 Reading 8a 40-57

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:
    Dec 16  John 1:48-51 [End of ch. 1]
    Dec 23  John - no assignment
    Dec 30  John - no assignment
    Jan 06  John 2:01-05
    Jan 13  John 2:06-09
    Jan 20  John 2:10-12
    Jan 27  John 2:13-16
    Feb 03  John 2:17-21
    Feb 10  John 2:22-25 [End of ch. 2]

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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