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Hi everybody,

I'm translating into English the cheiroballistra text written by (Pseudo-)Heron in (Koine) Greek around ~50-100AD. I'm publishing the translation under a free Creative Commons License in the Greek and Roman artillery wiki on this page. The full original text is available in public domain, for example in this publication available on Google Books:

• Wescher, C. 1867. Poliocétique des Grecs. Traités Théoretiques. Récits Historiques. Paris.

I've attended two classical Greek courses in the ...

Greetings:

Just starting my study of Greek with Pharr's Homeric Greek. This is one of the long term projects I have been putting off till after college. I look forward to finishing the Iliad, Odyssey, then branch in to other dialects to explore Greek philosophies and sciences. Ultimately my goal is to read the New Testament in Greek to satisfy my bucket list.

Salvete!

I'm looking for a dictionary and am thinking about buying the 1977-edition of Cassell's Latin Dictionary: Latin-English, English-Latin (NOT the "concise" edition but the real one) as published by Macmillan General Reference.

My requirements: 1 volume, Latin examples, ideally hardback, for the general population of Latin readers, reasonably complete

I had a look at the 19th-century original on Archive.org and liked it. Before buying it, however, I would like to know if anyone of ...

Is there a way I can set my computer to add the macrons? Thanks.

Hi,

this is a quick note to inform the members of Textkit that the Malta Classics Association now has a website:

http://www.classicsmalta.org/

It's still a very new website so there's not much stuff on the site but we'll be adding material as it is contributed. One of our goals is to create links with Classicists and Classics Associations around the world. Anyone wishing to contact us is very welcome to do so.

Joseph Anthony Debono ...

Hello,

I have been interested lately in Greek and Roman Architecture, and having come across a fabulous video podcast course on Roman architecture available from Yale at http://oyc.yale.edu/history-of-art/roman-architecture, I have been looking for anything, podcast or otherwise, dealing with the development of Greek architecture, which uses pictures or video. So far not much luck.

Naturally, the one style of Greek architecture which interests me the most is Aeolic, precisely ...

Did this set of forums suffer a major loss of archives and records a few years ago? I remember inputting several messages about Homeric Greek, but I cannot find them now.

Before that, its archives were moved, and in the process, contained Unicode text (which includes Greek) was corrupted and became unreadable.

I sometimes rummage the older posts. But the Greek characters are all broken into garbages due to the change of encoding. This may be a repeating question, but is there any way I can read them again?

And I think the answer should be sticky, if ever.

Thanks.

Mingshey.

I am in north England. I am retired (age 68). I learned Latin at school around 1960, and Ancient Greek more recently at home. I used to scuba dive. I am teetotal. I formerly worked at UMIST (computer programming, and in charge of a roomful of computers that students used.)

At the end of Lingua Latina I.XXXI, there is mention of an inscription in Pompeii which begins "quis amat valeat..."

I was curious if anyone knows if there's a photo floating around of the actual inscription? I tried doing a google images search and only could find photos of drawings or copies of the inscription.

Thanks,
Chris