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Tuesday, March 28, 2023

21st Century Classical Greek -- authenticity and a head's up

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This is a head’s up about more changes in accessing my blog. After April 15 the rules on Twitter change so here’s how you can keep reading m...
Sunday, March 26, 2023

I'm just saying -- sometimes a great notion

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is not a great notion, it's somebody's preferences.  Somebody's tweet in my timeline asked for items for a powerpoint presentati...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

21st Century Classical Greek -- concepts that are dead or ought to be

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The change to aspect destroys a number of concepts from the old grammars, and is supported by the evidence. Thucydides never uses “imperfect...
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

21st Century Classical Greek -- passive redux

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Under what circumstances does Thucydides use passives intead of ergatives? One of our first passives was I 2.6: καὶ παράδειγμα τόδε τοῦ ...
Sunday, March 12, 2023

Sooo history -- Gildas and Arthur 3

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Sooo Gildas in his Excidio claims the Anglo-Saxons wiped out the Celts, but we have literary evidence from shortly after Gildas’ death that ...
Tuesday, March 7, 2023

21st Century Classical Greek -- Thucydides redux

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If you are me, and you just found Herodotus using progressive aspect in ergative structures, you would now obsessively go back over Thucydid...
Sunday, March 5, 2023

Sooo history -- Gildas and Arthur 2

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Sooo Gildas was a Scots (Irish) monk on Lindisfarne in the 500s CE, writing about events around his monastery that didn’t sit right with him...