News of Learning Greek

Hello fellow Greek-lovers!
Maybe I'm posting this in the wrong place (in which case you must excuse me as a newbie) but I was just wondering if any of you have a copy of Geoffrey Horrocks: Greek. A History of the Language and its Speakers? I'm supposed to purchase it for the coming semester but it seems that it's more expensive than I imagined... The cheapest copy I could find, was at Amazon for 230 ...

Does anyone have the link to the instructions for Ancient Greek Text Manager and Paul's web site? Thanks!

Dean

hi all, i'm getting ready to move overseas in a few weeks, and so going through my old docs... found some old notes on iliad A i made a while ago...

i've drawn together notes from many sources, and parsed some scholia from the 3 great alexandrians.

http://www.freewebs.com/mhninaeide/IliadANotes.pdf

cheers, chad.

2) A new block, with full breathings etc. I cannot find the information file about it.

Because it has multiple accent marks that version is called "polytonic Greek."

I am not aware of a recommended maximum.
I think you would have to judge the attention span of the average human (and then add 20% because we are above average :D )

My PC is a few years old and has Windows 98. I would have to write any Greek in the Roman alphabet. Greek letters with accents are liable to show as question marks. What conventions are there for representing accents etc while staying in the 95 basic ASCII characters?

Betacode. It was originally devised for the TLG (Thesaurus Linguae Graecae), but is still widely used in online communication, especially email. Most people here will ...

Does anyone know about a book on Xenophon's Anabasis that I can get to begin reading the Greek which may contain the english translation with notes etc? I just finished a class in Attic Greek and I would love someone to recommend a book to begin reading on my own starting with Xenophon's anabasis.

thanks,
Dimitri

I am having problems with q4. The best I can come up with is
. For if once we keep two marches which (are) of three days away, the enemy will no longer follow us
I know this isn't right because "road/journey" is singular
The solution can't be "a journey of two or three days" because it doesn't say " of two"
Where does the two fit in?
Gillian

Hi, if anyone is out there that could point me in the right direction to start learning Greek I would really appreciate it. I've been trying to find help for a few weeks now and no one can seem to help me. I need to start right at the beginning. Thank you.