Hey all … I read two articles last night that dwelt on the concept of voice in ancient greek. One of the author’s conclusions is that teaching about deponency in greek verbs should be ABANDONED as wrong-headed and historically misleading and outright confusing. Wow is that a relief! Here I was dreading mastering the idea of sorting out deponent verbs into two different groups and having to distinguish between them !.. middle deponents and passive deponents. How happy I am to know that the whole concept can just be dispensed with!
The articles may be found here under “materials from years past”
(Incidentally the other articles are also interesting, especially the compendium of greek phonology)
Right now I am primarily using two texts: Basics of Biblical Greek by Mounce and Learn Biblical Greek by Dobson. Dobson basically says we don’t need much formal instruction in grammar .. that what grammar we do require can absorbed more or less intuitively. Mounce takes a highly structured grammatical approach. I general I favor the Dobson approach but don’t find it entirely sufficient.
I supposed I could have posted this in the outside links section but post it here because I am interested what others might think about the best approach to learning languages in general is .. and in particular what is the most advantageous method for learning some form of ancient greek!