Greek Study Groups

From: Alun Williams via GreekStudy <greekstudy at quasillum dot com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 20:00:57 -0000
Subject: Greek Activities:  Update for January 13 2025

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Donald Wright has paused his groups (marked ***) because of the situation in the Middle East

Group Listings:

Group: Homer's Odyssey Book 5 (Homer)
Coordinator: David Goldfarb <goldfarbdj at gmail dot com>
Text: posted
Assignments:
    Jan 12: 180-193
    Jan 19: 194-210
    Jan 26: 211-227

Group: Greek to GCSE, Part 2 (GAMMA)
Coordinator: Richard Moriarty <richardmoriarty0 at gmail dot com>
Text: John Taylor "Greek to GCSE - Part 2 (Revised Edition for OCR 2016)"
Assignments:
    14 Jan 114 PP.8 The advice of Mardonius to Xerxes
    21 Jan 115 PP.9 An ingenious message
    28 Jan 116 PP.10 Xerxes whips the sea
    04 Feb 117 PP.11 The sons of Pythias

Group: Greek to GCSE, Part 1 (DELTA)
Text: John Taylor "Greek to GCSE - Part 2 (Revised Edition for OCR 2016)"
Coordinator: Richard Moriarty <richardmoriarty0 at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
    14 Jan ass. 22 8.8-8.10 aorist middle and aorist formation
    21 Jan ass. 23 8.11 pp. 42-43
    28 Jan ass. 24 8.12-8.15 pp. 44-46
    04 Feb ass. 25 8.16-8.18 future middle and passive. Revision checkpoint

Group: Eros at the Banquet (BANQUET)
Coordinator: Jennifer Margrison <jmargrison at gmail dot com>
Text: "Eros at the Banquet: Reviewing Greek with Plato's Symposium" by Louise Pratt
Assignments:
    Jan 09 Assignment 70 Reading 8a 40-57 ***

Group: Greek New Testament (GNT)
Coordinator: Kelwin Wylie <greek at wylie dot ca>
Text: Greek New Testament, Suggested UBS 4 or Nestle-Aland 26 or later
Assignments:
    Jan 13  John 2:06-09
    Jan 20  John 2:10-12
    Jan 27  John 2:13-16
    Feb 03  John 2:17-21
    Feb 10  John 2:22-25 [End of ch. 2]

Group: Anabasis 1 (Anabasis)
Coordinator: Jennifer Margrison <jmargrison at gmail dot com>
Text: Xenophon’s Anabasis Book I
Greek Text with Facing Vocabulary and Commentary First Edition © 2018 by Geoffrey Steadman
    Jan 16 1.5-1.6

Group: Thucydides (Thucydides)
Coordinator: Donald Wright <wrightdon5041 at outlook dot com>
Text: posted, and http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/graeca/Chronologia/S_ante05/Thukydides/thu_pe42.html  
Assignments:
    Oct 10: Book V para 22[2]-23[1] ***

Group: Polybius Histories (Polybius)
Coordinator: Donald Wright <wrightdon5041 at outlook dot com>
The plan is to follow Polybius' version of the Second Punic War relating to Hannibal up to the Roman debacle at Cannae,
and then if people are still interested to follow the career of Scipio Africanus in the war up to Hannibal's final defeat at Zama.
Text: posted, and http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0234%3Abook%3D3%3Achapter%3D13 
Assignments:
    Oct 10: Book III Chapter 70[4-6] ***

Group: Septuagint, Selections (Septuagint)
Coordinator: Donald Wright <wrightdon5041 at outlook dot com>
Text: posted, and https://archive.org/details/selectionsfroms01stocgoog/page/n121/mode/1up
Assignments: 
    Oct 11: Judges 20: 11-15 ***

Group: Xenophon's Memorabilia (Memorabilia)
Coordinator:  Donald Wright <wrightdon5041 at outlook dot com>
Text: posted, and http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~Harsch/graeca/Chronologia/S_ante04/Xenophon/xen_mem1.html
Assignments:  
    Oct 12: Book IV section 6[10] ***

Group: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Potter)
Coordinator: Donald Wright <wrightdon5041 at outlook dot com>
Text: JK Rowling's original, translated into Ancient Greek by Andrew Wilson
Assignments:
    Oct 21: Chapter 10 page 144.39 ἡ δ’ἀναλαβοῦσς Εἴ γ’ἄρα to TBC ***
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