What did the Greeks use that would equate to the phrase "Once Upon A Time?" All good stories (and probably many bad ones) have to begin with this phrase.
πολλοι βιβλοι ειη υμιν και πολλαι ω?αι αναγινωσκειν
Once Upon A Time
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hi, see the LSJ article on indefinite ποτε, section III, 1:
http://archimedes.fas.harvard.edu/cgi-b ... lter=CUTF8
in addition to the citations given in that section of LSJ, you can see how this works in attic readers containing easy short stories, which sometimes begin this way: see e.g. stories 28 and 33 in morice's attic reader. the link to this reader online is in edonnelly's grk list under "Morice, F. D.":
http://new.textkit.com/node/36
cheers
http://archimedes.fas.harvard.edu/cgi-b ... lter=CUTF8
in addition to the citations given in that section of LSJ, you can see how this works in attic readers containing easy short stories, which sometimes begin this way: see e.g. stories 28 and 33 in morice's attic reader. the link to this reader online is in edonnelly's grk list under "Morice, F. D.":
http://new.textkit.com/node/36
cheers