Greetings! I’m trying to teach myself Greek, and I am about to begin working through Dickey’s Greek Prose Composition (currently close to finishing the JACT Reading Greek). Is anybody else working through this book, or has anyone already gone through it?
Hi Musica, this is a great place to get help on your ancient Greek. Now, about Eleanor Dickey: find the search box in the upper right of this page, and put in an appropriate search term. There’s been a fair amount of discussion of her here, favorable as far as I know. I tried “dickey” and “composition” and got lots of hits.
Thank you! I look forward to learning from you all!
Hi – I picked up an old used copy of the composition book by Lewis and Styler, and more recently got a copy of the Dickey book, which also looks very nice. I’m finding it to be a bit of an obstacle that both of these books seem to assume some sort of Attic dialect, but Attic is a dialect that I have never even touched upon. I did the first couple of sets of exercises from Lewis and Styler, trying to write them using correct Homeric grammar and vocabulary. If you would like to cooperate by going through Dickey and checking one another’s work, that could be enjoyable. I’d be open to however you’d like to work, but if I had my druthers I’d probably start Dickey with chapter III, since I-II seem dull and also pretty specific to Attic grammar. If you’re interested in Attic, then I would probably want to write out two versions of each answer, a Homeric one first (which you wouldn’t care about) and then an Attic one.