Quite. Still good for vocabulary, though any Greek prose you compose may have more poetic vocabulary than Aristotle would approve of. Even with the poetic freedoms, though, the basics (agreement, aspect/tense, much morphology) will be the same.mingshey wrote:Learning the poems by heart might help. But poems are more free from normal grammar, isn't it true for greek, too?
Probably the dialogues of Plato and Lucian would be the best. The Attic of drama is still quite poetic.How about those drama scripts as by Aeschilos or other authors? Are they recommendable for learning normal conversational grammar and vocabulary?
Just a snippet:
As discussed on the classics list today, apparently one correct response to χαῖρε is καὶ σύ. In the right context, it might also be considered rude, I gather.