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I've been reading through Plato's Lysis this teaching term, and it's a great deal of fun, and quite interesting. One of the things I've noted is the difficulty we have of teasing out two senses of φίλος, and I feel like Socrates
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Hi all! I know we have been for the most part quiet on this blog. Various projects continue to tick away. But this post is to let you know about the upcoming classes I'll be teaching, including new beginner cohorts for Greek and Latin. These start the week
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It's perhaps the trickiest phrase (at least language-wise) in the Lord's Prayer: τὸν ἄρτον ἡμῶν τὸν ἐπιούσιον δὸς ἡμῖν σήμερον (Mt 6:11.) And what on earth does ἐπιούσιον mean? It's not at all helped by the fact that this word only turns
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ΛΟΓΟΣ : ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΓΛΩΣΣΑ ΑΥΤΟΕΙΚΟΝΟΓΡΑΦΗΜΕΝΗ (Logos. Lingua Graeca Per Se Illustrata) by Santiago Carbonell Martínez ISBN: 978-84-945346-6-9 (Available from Libreria Aurea. I purchased mine via amazon.es) Note: there is a resource site with a large number of auxiliary resources, which I have not reviewed here. But
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I recently tweeted (yes, that dying star-system) that I had recognised an allusion to Plato's Timaeus while reading Athanasius recently. I don't at all think that I am the first to notice this particular allusion, but it was a thrill to recognise it just from
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Well, it's coming up towards the end of our teaching term at #SeumasU, and we're looking ahead to the next term (starts Apr 23rd). If you haven't heard about upcoming classes somewhere else yet, here's what we're teaching: Beginner Greek
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I started offering SeumasU classes (not by that name!) in 2019. I went full-time (ish), ditching my other work in 2020 thanks to the pandemic. So I'm now steaming and streaming into my 4th year of trying to teach somewhat-more-communicatively, online, as a full-time
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Here's my general advice for autodidacts, people looking to do a lot of Greek reading, or anyone really wanting to kickstart and turbo-charge their Ancient Greek. It's also more of less what I tell students to do (especially if they have finished Athenaze vol 1)
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So, like many people I'm intrigued by the possibilities of chatGPT. I have been particularly impressed that it renders responses to prompts for Latin with texts that on the whole both (a) grammatical, and (b) make sense. On the whole, it struggles with Ancient Greek, often producing texts
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The poor in spirit - that's the good life! The Heavenly Reign is theirs.Mourners - good on ya! They'll be comforted.The meek are bonzer, they'll get the Land as an inheritance.Hungry and thirsting for justice? Too beaut. They'll have all they
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Why is πόρνη translated as 'prostitute', but πόρνος is not? This question arose on the sinking-ship of Twitter, and since I was tagged, I started to think about it. I don't have a very in-depth answer, in that I'm not a lexicographer,
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Lately I have been listening to Ursula Le Guin's classic novel The Left Hand of Darkness, which portrays the world of Gethen, populated by a version of humans that are androgynous most of the time, except for a period once a month (kemmer) where they become male or