Greetings!

[Lewis01]

Greetings!
I'm sort of pursuing Homeric Greek, but I'm not sure how far I'll go. I've known other Greek dialects for decades, but Homer is a bit challenging for me.

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Welcome to Textkit!

[PhilipF]

Greetings, I managed to get through a few books of Homer with the help of a literal translation but it was a struggle and looking at the text now I can only recognise about half the words. I naively thought that when I had been taught to read Xenophon and the Septuagint that I had “learned” Greek. However I soon found that I will never really get fluent in reading. It was like starting over again each time I attempted a new author. I now confine myself to a few books that I have become used to e.g. the Septuagint, Josephus , Lucian and Diodorus etc. Even these I often seem to run into a brick wall. This is particularly the case with Plutarch. I can pick up a text and read a few sentences with no trouble at all, then completely grind to a halt. The text then makes no sense to me and seems full of unfamiliar words. Disappointing as he is so interesting.

[persequor]

Greetings, I managed to get through a few books of Homer with the help of a literal translation but it was a struggle and looking at the text now I can only recognise about half the words. I naively thought that when I had been taught to read Xenophon and the Septuagint that I had “learned” Greek. However I soon found that I will never really get fluent in reading. It was like starting over again each time I attempted a new author. I now confine myself to a few books that I have become used to e.g. the Septuagint, Josephus , Lucian and Diodorus etc. Even these I often seem to run into a brick wall. This is particularly the case with Plutarch. I can pick up a text and read a few sentences with no trouble at all, then completely grind to a halt. The text then makes no sense to me and seems full of unfamiliar words. Disappointing as he is so interesting.

Welcome to Textkit, Phillip.

I wanted to ask a question in light of your conclusion that you will "never really get fluent in reading" ancient Greek. Would you mind sharing what methods you have used to this point to learn to read Greek? I have some ideas which may help you make more progress. Some approaches work better than others.

Feel free to PM me here if you like, or answer in the forum.