Thank you very much for your kind advice! When reading Symposium, I often got confused about the complicated syntax… I really need to improve my Greek at present, and I think I’d better turn to Lysias instead. I’ll get these books first. Thanks again!
Thank you very much for your detailed reply and encouragement! One year ago when starting to learn Latin and Greek, I thought that knowing grammar and syntax would be good enough for me to work the sentences out… But now after some experience of reading original texts, I find that it is unrealistic. I need to know more about their history, thoughts, idioms, etc. So a book with good notes and commentaries will be really helpful to me. I’ll get Carey’s edition first. Thanks again and I will keep on posting my questions on the forum
Perhaps when you have started reading Lysias you could start a new thread and post your questions there. I strongly recommend that you start Lysias at paragraph 6 and read the introduction later. 1-5 , the address to the Jury is much more elaborate and difficult to read than the rest of the narrative.
