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This is the general introduction page for the
Textkit study group for Odyssey XII. Please see
this for a full list of current reading groups.
Text. This reading group is for people who
have some experience already in reading Homeric Greek, either by way
of Pharr or some other course. We'll be using the
Minckwitz
edition
available here at Textkit, which has a summary of books 1 through 11,
the text of Odyssey 12, a collection of notes on language and style,
as well as a convenient Greek-English vocabulary.
Schedule. The translations will be due once
a week, and will usually cover 15-20 lines of the Odyssey. We'll try
to break the text into reasonable sections so no translations end
mid-sentence or interrupt an episode too harshly, so the week to week
line count will vary a bit. If everyone is comfortable picking up the
pace, we can do that, too. We'll post the schedule at least a month
in advance on the session web page. Please let the list know when
you're going to have conflicts early.
From time to time we can adopt a slower pace for a
week, either for review, just to have a little breathing room or to
give more time for interesting discussion in progress. We can discuss
this on the list when appropriate.
Assignments. Once a week all the participants
will mail a translation of that week's selection to the list.
Comments about interesting or confusing language, meter, style,
etc. are also strongly encouraged both in your translation email, and
when looking over other participant's translations and comments.
Close readings, information from other
commentaries and tutorials are all welcome additions to the
discussion. Of course readers should feel free to ask more basic
questions as they come up.
Unlike the beginners' mailing lists, this list has
no guide correcting work, though there will be a guide responsible for
keeping the schedule reasonable and handling mailing list technical
matters.
Your Duties. We ask that people who join
the list can commit to the full session. At 20 lines a week we'd
finish the book in about 7 months. We also ask that you have at least
some familiarity with Homeric Greek. If every word and every line of
the first few lines of the Minckwitz Odyssey XII is a burden then you
might want to review or join the Pharr reading list.
Sessions
- Session A: starting February 1th, 2004.
[Closed: Session started]
[Schedule]
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