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Carrying on with our read-through of Rachel Aubrey's thesis on the Greek middle. Part 1 here. Numbers in brackets are page references. The rest of chapter 1 provides an overview of approaches to the middle. Aubrey commences this by highlighting two issues – (i) the semantic basis of
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We first meet Dikaiopolis in the popular textbook, Athenaze, reading 1α. He is an αὐτουργός, that is – he owns a small farm allotment and works it with his own hands. He is by no means rich, but he is at least wealthy enough to own one enslaved person. We are
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I’m asked more and more often (surprising to myself), how one goes about getting an active/communicative/spoken competency in Greek, Koine or Classical. And I was asked again today, and I thought I would write up for more general consumption what I would recommend in the current setting:
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This is a series of posts blogging my way through the very recent MA thesis of Rachel Aubrey on ‘HELLENISTIC GREEK MIDDLE VOICE: SEMANTIC EVENT STRUCTURE AND VOICE TYPOLOGY’ available here. I’m not a linguist, but I do my best to help non-linguists understand linguistic content. In this
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Reading on in Camus' The Plague, one has opportunity to reflect more and more upon the portrayal not only of the plague and its effects on Oran, but also upon the humans. I spoke last time about the way in which Camus treats the quarantine as a form of
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There's an excellent Latin<>Latin dictionary available online, Forcellini. But there isn't a good Ancient Greek one. There is Emiliano Caruso's Monolingual Dictionary of Ancient Greek, which is hard to get, and expensive, but good from all I hear. But also entirely
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I try to, in general, avoid just plugging things for the sake of plugging them, but I want to take the chance to promote the works of two acquaintances of mine who are doing some great audio-recording work, and really encourage you to consider supporting them if it would
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I've been re-reading Albert Camus' The Plague and I wanted to share some thoughts. Camus begins by establishing the very ordinariness of Oran. Indeed, the mundanity and blandness of its existence is brought to the forefront. And it takes a bit of a slow build before
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I feel like every single comment I make could start with hisce diebus, such as they are under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. Such as it is, I've started two small content initiatives that might interest you. Firstly, I've started vlogging on my personal
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Salvete amici! Recently I floated the idea on twitter of offering a Latin course that was entirely composed of playing an RPG in Latin. There seemed good interest, so let's make this happen! Here's the pitch: We will run a game based on the Fate Accelerated
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For a sport of sporting fun, I recently solicited Lord of the Rings quotations on Twitter, which I rendered into Ancient Greek. I have a few outstanding requests yet to fulfil, but here's a wrap-up of the lot (Greek follows the quotation) I am not altogether on
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Recently I was reading an article on the dynamics of language choice, use, and (perceived) ownership between Irish-language majors (i.e. university students) born in the Gaeltacht, hence presumed or actual native speakers, and those not, hence ‘learners’.[1] It’s a fascinating article and well worth a read,