This manuscript said to be written by my grandmothers great grandfather. It wasn’t discovered until great grandparents and elders passed away. It is said to be written in very old Greek , containing astrology etc but we still cant solve the mystery. Half of the book was stolen. We still dont know what it is??

Hi everyone. I'm part of the team developing The Greek Library: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/. It's hosted by LISN at Université Paris-Saclay in France.

We have gathered more than 8,000 editions and close to 2,000 authors, with texts running from Homer to the Byzantine period. You can read the texts, do a full-text search, search by lemma, generate vocabulary lists for a given text, compare passages, and look at statistics.

The reason the project exists is the lack of free access to these resources. The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae is the current reference, but it's crazy expensive (I read it’s $140 a year for an individual). Some universities in my country can’t afford the licence, and I’m sure it’s the same elsewhere. On top of that, their licence forbids downloading and systematic use of the data. Our goal was to create something akin to The Latin Library: open and with no sign-up.

We would like feedback if you have any!

Bound in vellum, this bilingual presentation of Lucian’s dialogues also include Greek scholia and further notes in Latin. Only $250! It also includes some hand written notes left by the previous owner. I want to actually use the book to study my Greek (obviously being more careful around it) so this will be perfect, I think. Was wondering what Loeb edition would correspond to the contents of this first volume.

I did take an Ancient Greek class in college but I forgot most of it. I dec8ded to get back into it!

Hello! My friend asked me for a translation into Ancient Greek for a story, and I gave it my best shot, but since I don’t actually know the language, I have very little confidence. Does this sound natural? Are these the usual words for the things?

Οὐχ ὁ Σπύρος εἰμί.
Εἰ μὴ ζητήσεις, τοῦ στερέω σὲ καὶ φονεúw.*

All I had was the dictionary, so I didn’t really have a way to tell if I was using the ordinary words or something obscure. I don’t wanna be responsible for a translation like the one in the attached image.

*Said friend got banned for using the |⟨ I double-hockey sticks word when trying to request the translation here, so that’s why it’s written wonkey. Cūrā!

Many of us have a version of the Liddell and Scott Greek-English Lexicon.

Today I heard the small one (which I posted here) is known as the Little Liddell.

The next bigger one is the Middle Liddell.

The biggest and most comprehensive is—you guessed it—the Big Liddell. Also known as the Great Scott.

Tickled me, but I suppose half of you knew this already. But maybe not.

Cheers!

This beautiful new edition (with u/lachlan_j_hodgson) is designed to help you read Homer in the original Greek – with helpful notes, vocabulary, and formatting made for students and enthusiasts.

Samples are here: www.timothyalee.com/homer

This is a Greek reader's edition of the Odyssey. It is designed as a practical and affordable tool for two audiences: students who have completed roughly a year of Classical Greek and are ready to begin reading a sustained primary text, and scholars or interested readers who wish to refresh their Greek in an accessible format. Its aim is to immerse the learner in the Greek of the Odyssey as quickly as possible, helping to build confidence in moving from isolated sentences to continuous narrative.

The transition from elementary exercises to reading extended passages is often steep and discouraging. To ease this shift, the reader provides generous glosses: every word occurring twenty‑five times or fewer in Homer (both Iliad and Odyssey) is glossed in the footnotes. This allows students with a modest vocabulary base to keep reading without constant interruption, while still reinforcing the most common Homeric forms.

The result is a volume that complements standard grammars and is especially well suited to beginner and intermediate readers of Classical Greek. Advanced readers, too, will appreciate the convenience of having rare vocabulary glossed at the point of need, making the text quicker and more enjoyable to navigate.

Other features include:

• Introductions to Homer, the Odyssey, and Homeric Greek

• Map of Odysseus’ voyage in Greek

• Paradigm charts of noun and verbs

• Glossary of all the words not glossed below the text

• Wide margins

Find it on Amazon $53.99 (paperback) $66.99 (hardcover)

Any attempt to recite the Homeric poems in a manner that goes beyond the text as we have it in the earliest manuscripts must ultimately supply an answer to the Homeric question. In this recitation I assume that, although the text as we have it may not in whole go back to an “original Iliad” (a concept I reject due to the fluid nature of Rhapsodic poetry), the dialect of the text must have arose before the introduction of the Phoenician alphabet to the Greek mainland around the 8th century BCE. This archaic Ionian dialect makes distinctions in pronunciation that classical Attic does not, the most obvious of which is the restoration of Digamma (with the subsequent consequence of removing instances of ᾱ, a product of compensatory lengthening due to the loss of digamma, as we see in πᾶσαι restored as πάσϝαι). Other distinctions include ει being pronounced either as a diphthong /eɪ/ or a long monophthong /eː/, depending on wether it originated from the original Indo-European diphthong *ey or from later lengthening of ε, so that the ει in κεῖτο and τανυσθεῖς are pronounced differently. The same applies to ου, pronounced either as /oʊ/ or /oː/. Another change is the pronunciation of υ as original /u/ instead of its later fronted value /y/. Any corrections on the placement of Digamma is greatly appreciated.

Joke post, please remove if inapropriate

This is a very early and incomplete version of some introductory lessons in Greek, emulating the approach used by the high school Latin book Ecce Romani. It's an open source, nonprofit project, under the same license as Wikipedia.

web page with PDF link

The ideal person to make something like this would have been someone with excellent skills in three different areas: Greek composition, art, and software. Instead, there's me. If anyone would like to help out, I would be grateful. My perception is that there are two main areas where I could use the most help at this point:

(1) Errors in Greek idiom can be extremely difficult to catch for myself. For example, I had a couple of stories with ἔχειν φίλον to mean "have a friend," and it was only by chance that it occurred to me today that this was probably not idiomatic. Some quick searching through real texts turned up stuff like νομίζειν φίλον and κεκτῆσθαι φίλον, so as a quick and dirty fix (not wanting to use the perfect before it had been introduced) I changed these two spots to νομίζειν φίλον, but I will need to go back and look carefully at more real Greek to see if this is actually OK. The really hard part is just realizing initially that my idiom for something may be wrong and that I have to research it in actual usage.

(2) My art skills are pretty bad, and when my wife looks at my drawings, sometimes we have conversations where she's like, "Is that a squirrel?," and I'm like, "Uh, no, it's supposed to be a person." It's not the end of the world if the art just doesn't look super professional, but it's a problem if it's so unclear that it isn't fulfilling its purpose of helping the reader to understand what the text is saying. I'm sure there are quite a few pictures that are like this, so calling them out would be very helpful.

For those who haven't seen Ecce Romani, it's a reading-based course where they give you a picture and a story, and then right underneath the story there are English-language glosses for new vocabulary. After the story they give you some material in English such as declension tables and explanations of the grammar. It's an approach that's somewhat inductive but not as in-your-face about it as LLPSI.

Surely οἱ ϑεοὶ won't send her to the Tartatus, right?

I received this ring as a child from someone who has passed and it has migrated from finger to finger as I grew up (now sits on my little finger). I’ve considered it a good luck charm my whole life and I wear it every day. A long time ago i went to Greece as a teen and someone translated it into something about a bird and sickness, but I don’t recall the full thing. Could you help me translate it and maybe understand more about how old it is or where in Greece it could be from? I was told by a jeweler it is solid silver and it bears no makers mark.

Hi all! I found this t-shirt in a thrift strore this morning, but I have know idea what says. Can anyone help me? Thank you!