I wanted to know if there are any Homeric Greek study groups around.
Eh, are there?
I have “A Reading Course in Homeric Greek” and the Pharr PDF, so anybody wanna get friendly? I hoped a few people here would care to start one up if there isn’t a group already. I just found out how awesome skype is as a tool. And, how awesome would it be to have regular Homeric Greek parties (wut, I mean study groups) via skype? My schedule is (surprisingly) flexible for folks in different time zones. Get at me.
Yeah, I was reading some of the older HomericGroup threads and methinks people are somewhat burnt out on HG. Well, that’s probably not true, but I think the last one to start up was in '09. So depending on how long they took to work through Pharr, they probably finished only recently. The main thing would be to find someone to guide us. I’m considering stopping by the local University Classics Dept. and bribing grad students or something. If you’re interested we could split the cost of this or that grad student I convince to help us.
There’s always the “Pharr by chapter” thread, I guess.
Reading Homer now and loving it. Would like to be part of a study group. I worked my way through Pharr and a lot of Benner. I’m reading Book 24 now. I avoided all memorization and just gutted it out line by line by line. I’m still very slow, about 50 lines a week, but really happy with it.
Still in the first lessons of Pharr, had to relearn the pronunciation but already knew the alphabet from my fraternity experiences. Finding that a huge help with the vocab words. Also found some alphabet pronunciation videos on YouTube worth a look. Some of the letters do not sound as they should as described in the textbook but still a good reference for me. Just searched for “ancient Greek pronunciation”. It did not include waw or koppa but got my momentum going.
Okay, sounds like we might have a few people who are interested. I am just getting started. I have absolutely no experience with Greek but have spent the better part of a year fascinated with Ancient Greece and have finished the Iliad translated by Ian Johnston, and am about half way through his translation of the Odyssey. I’ve resolved that I want to be able to read the Iliad in the Homeric Greek, so I guess my question is, where shall we start?