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Tuesday, June 28, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- more on obliques

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Book I section 35. Now the Kerkyraeans deal with the treaty violation issue. λύσετε δὲ οὐδὲ τὰς Λακεδαιμονίων σπονδὰς δεχόμενοι ἡμᾶς μηδετ...
Tuesday, June 21, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- review 3

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Believe it or not, counting reviews, I’ve posted 100 articles on this subject. It’s a terribly long time since I did a review, but here are ...
Sunday, June 19, 2022

Knitting -- the yoke's on me

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So these tops started with a normal fingering-weight jumper and took some detours. So the purple one was the first; the yoke is the Selbu Ro...
Tuesday, June 14, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- a contrast between certainty and definiteness

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Book I section 34.   The Kerkyraeans continue to put their case. ‘ἢν δὲ λέγωσιν ὡς οὐ δίκαιον τοὺς σφετέρους ἀποίκους ὑμᾶς δέχεσθαι, μαθό...
Tuesday, June 7, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- oblique use

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  Book I section 33.     The Kerkyraeans continue to put their case. ‘γενήσεται δὲ ὑμῖν πειθομένοις καλὴ ἡ ξυντυχία κατὰ πολλὰ τῆς ἡμετέρας ...
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...