Though not a colloquium I’ve also found the letters in the Epistolographi Graeci to be of extreme value, specially considering that we often just write Greek instead of speaking it.
But apart from these I have not been able to find any good and “easy” colloquies or similar. Do any of you know of anything that I may have missed?
I’d be specially interested if someone knew about colloquies that spoke about grammar. There’s one such dialogue in Blackie’s dialogues and a lot of vocabulary in the appendix of Rico’s Polis, as well as in the appendix of Clyde’s Greek syntax and in Bardón y Gómez’ Lectiones Graecae, sive manu-ductio Hispaniae in Linguam Graecam. But I have not been able to find much that’s in “dialogue format”.
Moschopulos’ Σχέδη here. More information about this kind of material at Hunger’s Byzantine Literature (Die hochsprachliche profane Literatur der Byzantiner; it’s also been translated in very good Greek) in the chapter about Ἐπιμερισμοί and Σχεδογραφία (pp. 22ss).
Grazie, good sir.
A search of the forum did not turn up a reference to your edition. After a quick glance at it, I would say it would be very useful. Is it recent?
Welcome to the forum, Fergus, and Kudos for your work!
There are some colloquies by Henricus Stephanus (Henri Estienne) also in his Thesaurus graecae linguae, partly coinciding with those in the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana:
Yes, Eleanor Dickey included Stephanus’ Edition in her edition of the Pseudodostheana, another text that I’m tinkering with, along with Seumas MacDonald and Benjamin Kantor.
This is a great discovery, thank you very much for posting it. I’m currently working my way through the Janua, and I find almost every sentence to be clearer and easier to understand in the Schneider translation. It’s incredible what a few extra articles and καίs can do for comprehension! Schneider also seems to provide more synonyms than Simons, although the latter often has longer sentences (as well as the comprehensive list of constellations and medicinal plants, which are interesting but probably overkill for someone just looking to expand his vocabulary).
