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Hey everyone, I am a second year student of Greek and Roman Studies, and my Greek exam is on Friday. For one of the sections, I must do a translation from Greek to English. Though I have most of it translated, there is one sentence that is driving me crazy. Since I don't know how to use the Greek alphabet on the computer, I'll just transliterate:

Dikaiopolis de eudaimonestatas hegeito tas Athenas kai beltiw (omega) ...

Hi.

In LSJ
me^ttrizo^ http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=mhtrizw&la=greek#lexicon
and
tympanon http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=tumpanon&la=greek#lexicon
you can find a name "the Mother Goddess", "The Mother of the gods".
Who is this ?
Demeter ?

Hello everybody I am new here and I have a question. I am finishing up my Latin II class this semester, and I was wondering when I should take Greek. I have a fascination with the classics, and I would like to be able to read and write Greek. Thanks.

Is there any good Ancient Greek textbooks with Audio?

Or is there any audio suitable for beginner's studies (instead of recordings of complete prose)?

I mainly refer to Homeric Greek, and Attic the second. The only book I know of with good audio is Assimil Grec Ancien, which teaches Attic Greek.

Thank you.

I'm reading Lysias I (On the Murder of Erathostenes) in the edition by Geoffrey Steadman and encountered the following difficulty

Lys 1.23
εἰδὼς δ᾽ ἐγὼ ὅτι τηνικαῦτα ἀφιγμένος οὐδένα καταλήψοιτο οἴκοι τῶν ἐπιτηδείων, ἐκέλευον, συνδειπνεῖν

(As I knew that, arriving at that hour, he would find none of his circle at home, I invited him to dine with me)

Steadman says in his notes that καταλήψοιτο is an aorist optative, but surely that has to ...

It seems to me that the difficulty of the text is something akin to transmission errors in telecommunications. At the end of Cassandra's final speech, the last few lines are obscure and the obscurity passes over into the first four lines of the following Chorus. Then suddenly on line 1335 everything becomes marvelously readable. This looks like a corrupted packet of transmission which crosses a boundary between Casandra's last words and the Chorus.

It could ...

διόπερ ὅσον ἀνήκειν ὑπολαμβάνομεν αὐτοῦ πρὸς τὴν πραγματικὴν ἱστορίαν καὶ τὴν κοινὴν ἐπίνοιαν, τοῦτο πειρασόμεθα κεφαλαιωδῶς διελθεῖν:

My translation:

On acount of which, insofar as we understand it to reach practical history and common understanding, we will attempt to go through it in a summary fashion.

Question:

Am I right in understanding the genitive here: ὑπολαμβάνομεν - αὐτοῦ - ἀνήκειν = we understand it to reach?

I would feel more comfortable if αὐτοῦ were accusative. ...

Hi. I am new to this forum, and am collecting Greek courses for future studies. I would like some advice on the above course.

My professor recommended the older version of the course, i.e., the original by Schoder and Horrigan. He did not mention the revised version by Lesile Edward, so I am not sure if he was aware of it. As the publisher stated on their website that the two courses may be quite ...

Where might I find a full list of Greek prefixes along with their meaning?

There are some that list the most common ones but even I have yet to find a list
that includes συμ/συν/συγ which I presume means together and is quite common.
(even Smyth let me down)

Anyone I know where I might find such a list?

A couple of weeks ago I complained about the lack of a native speaker community of Ancient Greek speakers to practice with. But maybe time machines do exist after all:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 74669.html