Greetings all!
I’m a 36yo professional programmer and a father of 2 6yo boys, residing in
Brooklyn, NY. As a preteen, in Odessa (Ukraine), I fell in love with the
history of Ancient Greece, feeling inspired by the effectiveness of the
phalanx and mystified by the history of the Snake Island (which I still hope to
visit one of these days).
By a path completely-unrelated to my childhood interest, I found my way to
reading (Benjamin Jowett’s translation of) Plato’s Republic earlier this year,
which I enjoyed tremendously. Plato’s numerous references to Homer got me
intrigued about reading his works as well. So far I’ve read Fitzgerald’s
translation of The Iliad.
After spending days googling which translations are best, I thought that it’d
be far more-interesting to instead learn the language and ponder the original
texts. So here I am… 
I’m following The Great Courses Greek 101 lectures, by Hans-Friedrich Mueller,
and cross-referencing with Pharr’s Homeric Greek, on which the course is based.
Would love to meet anyone local(ish) with similar interests!
The authors I’m most-interested in are:
- Homer
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Herodotus
- Thucydides
- Hesiod
- Marcus Aurelius
- Epictetus (maybe…)
But, for the sake of just practicing the language, I think the idea of Ancient
Greek plays in Ancient Greek is quite awesome.
P.S. I (and my sons) have enjoyed brianthemusicman1’s (over at soundcloud) reading of Iliad’s opening lines (the-ancient-greek-iliad-project-preview).
(I’m sure there’re plenty problems with pronunciation and meter, but the music
and dramatization are pretty awesome )