In Rouse's "A First Greek Course"
ἄνθρωπος is listed as ἄνθρωπος ὁ, ἡ and θεός as θεός ὁ, ἡ
Have any of you seen these two words used in the feminine gender?
ἡ θεός in particular would surprise me considering that there is a feminine counterpart θεά
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Re: a)/nqrwpoj o(, h( qeo/j o(, h(
My H&Q uses ἡ θεός every once in a while. I've never seen the feminine of anthropos, though. It's listed in my H&Q as strictly masculine.
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Re: a)/nqrwpoj o(, h( qeo/j o(, h(
θεά is used only in poetry.Bert wrote:ἡ θεός in particular would surprise me considering that there is a feminine counterpart θεά
William S. Annis — http://www.aoidoi.org/ — http://www.scholiastae.org/
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τίς πατέρ' αἰνήσει εἰ μὴ κακοδαίμονες υἱοί;
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Re: a)/nqrwpoj o(, h( qeo/j o(, h(
Is that in practice exercises or in actual Greek text.Titus Marius Crispus wrote:My H&Q uses ἡ θεός every once in a while. I've never seen the feminine of anthropos, though. It's listed in my H&Q as strictly masculine.
That is interesting. Any ideas why? Is it used only in Homer's poetry or also in poems by later authors when authors of prose etc. possibly used ἡ θεόςwilliam Annis wrote: qea/ is used only in poetry.