Greek Study Groups

From: Alun Williams via GreekStudy <greekstudy at quasillum dot com>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:05:24 -0000
Subject: Greek Activities:  Update for February 17 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:               
    Feb 16: 262-277      
    Feb 23: 278-294
    Mar 02: 295-312
    Mar 09: 313-327
    Mar 16: 328-345
    Mar 23: 346-359
    Mar 30: 360-372

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:
    18 Feb 119 PP.13 Spartan behaviour at Thermopylae.
    25 Feb 120 PP.14 Xerxes loses patience
    04 Mar 121 PP.15 The mountain path
    11 Mar 122 PP.16 The last stand

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"
    18 Feb ass. 27 8.21-8.22 (skip 8.20. Practice it and I will supply the answers)
    25 Feb ass. 28 8.23-8.24 genitive absolute!!

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:
    Feb 20 Assignment 76 9A lines 30-38

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
    Feb 13 II.1-2 (starts near the top of page 8)
    Feb 20 II.3-4
    Feb 27 II.5-6

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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