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Tuesday, May 31, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- negating the conceptual

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Book I section 32.   This is one of Thucydides’ made-up speeches. He already told his audience that he would be doing this. The grammar he u...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Gibbon -- the urban legend; endgame

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So I have spent all these posts trash-talking Gibbon. Even if we make allowances for what he could never have known, his premises were all f...
Tuesday, May 24, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- a bunch of idioms

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Book I section 31.   This section gets us to some speech-making that is impoprtant for the grammar. Otherwise it’s quite straightforward. No...
Tuesday, May 17, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- cats and dogs 2

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Book I section 30.   When you mark up everything you know in this section you’ll see how far you have come in nearly two years. Keep track o...
Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Gibbon -- the urban legend, pt. 14

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So last time I said that Diocletian would have been a fool to split the empire if he couldn't feed the eastern part, and he probably cou...
Tuesday, May 10, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- caveat on translation

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Book I section 29.   Κορίνθιοι δὲ οὐδὲν τούτων ὑπήκουον, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπειδὴ πλήρεις αὐτοῖς ἦσαν αἱ νῆες καὶ οἱ ξύμμαχοι παρῆσαν, προπέμψαντες κήρ...
Tuesday, May 3, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- conditional seven

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Book I section 28.   This is kind of long but first check out how much you recognize, and then I’ll get into the two bolded bits. ἐπειδὴ δ...