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I would like to create a flashcard set using Anki that would be available for anyone using Pharr's Homeric Greek. There is one part that is slow going for me due to my internet connection and ability: the image searching. If the small community here would be able to help, I do believe that everyone using Pharr's would benefit greatly. Here is what I need help finding: copyright free images ...

μάλα πολλὰ πάθον καὶ ἀπώλεσα οἶκον
εὖ μάλα ναιετάοντα, κεχανδότα πολλὰ καὶ ἐσθλά.

Menelaos is speaking to Telemachus. I always thought οἶκον refers to his own home, i.e. that when he came back from Troy his own house was ruined, although the whole speech is a bit incongruous. All the translations I've seen as well as the Oxford commentary and Ameis-Hentze-Cauer's commentary agree.

But now I find that Oliver Taplin in Homeric Soundings, p. 117 ...

Amazon is offering a very low price on the just released kindle edition of this book. Currently listed at $1.99. The paperback edition runs about $35. Certainly worth picking up as a backup copy even if one already owns the paperback.

I've noticed that Amazon will randomly lower the prices of their kindle books considerably for short times.
Picked up Blackwell Companion to Augustine for about one fifth of the usual selling price a couple ...

This is an interesting site about Weapons and warfare in the late Helladic time 1600-1100 BC

I'm trying to compile a list of works written in Homeric Greek by later authors. They can be used as additional reading material after learning Homeric. Please suggest any addition/modification:

* Apollonius Rhodius - Argonautica
http://archive.org/details/apolloniusrhodiu00apol
* Quintus Smyrnaeus - Posthomerica
http://archive.org/details/falloftroy00quin
* Nonnus - Dionysiaca
http://archive.org/search.php?query=DIONYSIACA
* Nonnus - Gospel of John
...

Pharr (and T.D. Seymour) give line 20 as:

παῖδα δ' ἐμοὶ λῦσαί τε φίλην, τά τ' ἄποινα δέχεσθαι

Other editions, however (such as the Loeb Classics version translated by Murray and Wyatt, as well as Homeri Opera, Vol. 1 translated by Munro and Allen) give line 20 as:

παῖδα δ᾽ ἐμοὶ λύσαιτε φίλην, τὰ δ᾽ ἄποινα δέχεσθαι,

My question is about what to make of "λῦσαί τε" as compared to "λύσαιτε".

On the one hand, ...

In the Odyssey, Telemachos, both as a guest of Nestor and Menelaos, sleeps beneath a portico, so basically outside. (Book 3-399 , Book 4-297, ὑπ‘ αἰθούσῃ)

This struck me as odd and a bit inhospitable, but Middle Liddell states that this is the 'sleeping place of travellers'. Does anyone have more references to this portico sleeping?

Odyssey 9.289-290, the most charming passage in Homer... (The Cyclops eating Odysseus' men)

σὺν δὲ δύω μάρψας ὥς τε σκύλακας ποτὶ γαίῃ
κόπτ': ἐκ δ' ἐγκέφαλος χαμάδις ῥέε, δεῦε δὲ γαῖαν.

κόπτ' is imperfect (i.e. not an aorist) - should we interprete this as a repetitive action, "he hammered them against the ground like puppies"? The translations I looked seem to interprete this as single strike, but wouldn't that rather take an aorist? 'Hammered' is ...

So, has anybody used this? how is it?

Hi all,

I am a new poster and am glad I found this site. I have been studying Pharr for the last two months. As part of my Homeric reading, I have been trying to read the text out loud and get a feel for the meter of the poem. There are times when i do struggle in determining whether a syllable is long or short. Is there a dictionary that includes the lengths. I ...