Do you know if there is any other way to access this work at home than paying about 2000 euros for the 4 volumes or stealing it from the library? Like say, an online version, or maybe a new printed edition more reasonably priced coming up?
The likelihood that the publisher, out of the goodness of its heart, will make a cheaper version available in the near future is infinitesimal, and if it becomes available electronically, it will likely be at a price that’s a significant fraction of the price of the hard copy, so that after just a few years you will have paid the price of a hard copy without having anything show for your expense. If you absolutely must have a home copy of this work, I would recommend theft as the least expensive means of acquisition.
Don’t forget, despite the ample sex and violence that can be found within the covers (if you’re willing to do some digging), the market for this work like this isn’t exactly calculated to make anyone rich. Even recognizing that it was financed largely by subsidies, it must have been a very expensive work to produce, taking into account the value of the labors of the scholars who compiled it, the costs of typesetting and proofing the text, etc.
If you steal it, you will be getting all this for nothing. Go for it!
I suppose that whatever the price, high or low, sales can never bring back more than an infintesimal fraction of the production cost. In a research project like this with public funding, I don’t see why not set the price at a point where all the potential readers can get it. Of course it must cost money, but it can’t be much compared to the huge sums that have already been wasted in the project. If nobody can afford it, why make it in the first place?
I’ll steal it.
I can always count on you guys for good advice!
Wait how do you intend to steal it? how is that possible? :S Should you even be admitting this stuff here? :S
Scribo, If you’re irony-challenged, you shouldn’t be reading Greek.
In my jeans’ back pockets. No one will suspect a thing.
I’m hardly “irony challenged”. We have, however, a history of people posting links to torrents, downloads, illegal scans on Scribd and so on. It’s hardly a negligible thing.
hi, i would suggest instead a far simpler solution - create a moving alphabet (eg. eyebrow raise = alpha, toungle sticking out = beta, forward lunge = gamma, streetfighter II uppercut = delta, etc) and then memorise the volumes by performing each character of your alphabet as you read, as a graceful dance 
‘I’m hardly “irony challenged”.’ I’m sure you’re not, but I couldn’t resist a friendly dig. Hope you don’t take offense.
create a moving alphabet (eg. eyebrow raise = alpha, toungle sticking out = beta, forward lunge = gamma, streetfighter II uppercut = delta, etc) and then memorise the volumes by performing each character of your alphabet as you read, as a graceful dance
What about the breathings and accents?
Rough breathing = exhale, smooth = inhale. I’ll learn the whole LfgrE by heart. People from all over the world will come to see me.
If you absolutely must have a home copy of this work, in addition to theft, I would also recommend therapy.
Maybe group therapy? “My name is Paul and I’m a Homerist.”
http://www.theonion.com/articles/you-are-no-longer-welcome-in-the-homer-reading-gro,11063/
This isn’t that far from factual. Actually about a year ago I found out what non Homerist Classicists think of Homerists and this is much more flattering tbh.
Ah, you don’t need the whole thing anyway. Just keep in mind Wittgenstein’s dictum. It’s all over by the bottom of page one.
“what non Homerist Classicists think of Homerists”
Where would they be without Homer?
But in all candor, you have to concede that no one has managed to make a living off of wildly unfounded speculation as successfully as Homerists, with the possible exception of astrologers. At least astrologers have a kind of system to their craft.
Well, what do non-Homerist classicists think about Homerists?
Have you ever heard about medicine? Ok, maybe in the last hundred years we’ve started to have some results, but from the historical perspective, it’s the biggest hoax of all!
What results exactly? According to the American Medical Association, medical malpractice is the third leading cause of death. In antiquity, it certainly ranked lower. So it is trending upwards and will probably one day become the number one leading cause of death.
I find that hard to believe. Can you back it up with some evidence?
The first site that google pulled up for me discussed an article that appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association thirteen years ago. The site also mentioned an annual death of 225,000 per year, but 80,000 of those were due to infections of hospital patients. That doesn’t go very far in supporting your claim.
I’ll look for more.
Here’s one: http://www.injurylawfirmworcesterma.com/2013/05/medical-malpractice-is-the-3rd-leading-cause-of-death.shtml
I had read previously that it was number four.