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Tuesday, August 31, 2021

21st Century Classical Greek -- ago

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Moving on to Book I section 9. This is a long section so do two things. First, mark everything you recognize. If you recognize the grammar b...
Tuesday, August 24, 2021

21st Century Classical Greek -- the rest of section 8

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OK, let’s look for other interesting grammar in Thucydides Book I section 8. καὶ οὐχ ἧσσον λῃσταὶ ἦσαν οἱ νησιῶται, Κᾶρές τε ὄντες καὶ Φοί...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021

21st Century Classical Greek -- not ergative

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Now you may remember other examples of hupo plus the -on case and wonder whether they are ergative structures. One was section 2.1: ἕκαστο...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021

21st Century Classical Greek -- ergative

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So I skipped most of Thucydides Book I section 7 and I’m going straight to section 8, subsection 2 to discuss an important use of the “secon...
Tuesday, August 3, 2021

21st Century Classical Greek -- lambano and kata

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Thucydides Book I section 7. τῶν δὲ πόλεων ὅσαι μὲν νεώτατα ᾠκίσθησαν καὶ ἤδη πλωιμωτέρων ὄντων,  περιουσίας μᾶλλον ἔχουσαι χρημάτων ἐπ᾽ α...
Sunday, August 1, 2021

Knitting -- Brioche: where am I?

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The video I gave you last week gives you part of the answer to this question. If your next stitch is a singleton, you use it to do a YO. Whe...
Tuesday, July 27, 2021

21st Century Classical Greek -- identifying aorist 2

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So I got a new laptop after wearing out the keyboard on my old one, and I restored files from external backup – and I couldn’t find a lesson...