Hi, this is my first post to Textkit, which I registered to in hopes that somebody may be able to help me.
I’ve been teaching myself Homeric Greek through the original Pharr PDF that can be found all over the internet, and I’ve made good headway, currently on Chapter 17. The two best resources I found that listed keys for the exercises, were the Greekgeek website on the Wayback machine, who I saw used to post here, and well as the official key. However, both of these answer keys do not contain English → Greek exercises beyond lesson 12. However, in the book, there continue to be numerous English → Greek lessons from Chapters 13 onward. Does anybody else have a guide to these lessons? I can do the work myself, but I like checking my work afterwards.
I should also add, I got one response when I posted this question in another forum, which was “Forget the English to Greek : translations. Just attempt the Greek to English translations. Even those are distortions of Homeric Greek, though they may be helpful in learning the morphology. Pharr takes words out of their context in word groups/formulas that evolved to fit the metrical patterns of the Homeric hexameter, resulting in sentences that are neither Homeric nor Greek. There’s no point in doing the English to Greek exercises because even if you get them right, you won’t be producing real Greek or real Homer.”
I personally don’t want to do this, as I found that the English to Greek lessons challenged me to use the morphology used, even if I’m completely ignoring classical Attic grammar rules until I finish Pharr. After all, I can clearly see that νηῦς is used instead of ναῦς, for example.
I doubt you’ll find a key, but if you are willing to post your answers, it’s likely that the experts will correct them. Then we can add them to the key.
@Euknemide Achaiο, I’m currently at lesson 14 and am trying to do one lesson per day. I’ve been writing my answers in pencil in a notebook, but if you want to compare answers, I could start typing them up. Typing up the Greek->English exercises would be super quick and easy. The English->Greek would be more effort to type, but if you want to do it, I’m game. I haven’t bothered looking online for other people’s answer keys, partly because I think the level of understanding required in order to to tell what’s a reasonable variation between answers is probably about the same as the level of understanding required in order to do the exercises.
What edition is the PDF you’re working from? I have the fourth edition. I think the exercises differ between the editions.
Oh wow! Sounds like you’re moving at a much faster pace than I am, I’m doing more like one lesson a week currently, because of other obligations. Because of the key I’m good for the Greek to English. Here’s my English to Greek for Lesson 13, in what I believe is the first edition, not sure what your questions to answer are.
The valiant Achaeans are singing the accursed wrath of Achilles.
ἴφθῑμοι Ἀχαιοὶν ἀείουσι οὐλομένην μῆνιν Ἀχιλλῆος.
The wrath of Achilles caused many woes to the Achaeans and sent many valiant souls of heroes to the god Hades.
μῆνις Ἀχιλλῆος ἐτέλεσε μῡρί’ ἄλγε’ Ἀχαιοῖσι καὶ ἔπεμψε πολλὰς ἰφθῑ́μᾱς ψῡχᾱ̀ς ἡρώων θεῷ Ἄϊδι.
We shall make the army of the Achaeans a booty for the dogs and a banquet for the birds.
τεύξομεν στρατὸν Ἀχαιῶν ἑλώριον κυνέσσιν καὶ δαιτὰ οἰωνοῖσι.
We are accomplishing the will of the goddess.
τελείομεν βουλὴν θεᾶς..