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In my spare time I have been pottering away at some Catullus translations. You can find recordings of these on my soundcloud as well. Warning: Catullus is fairly liberal in his use of expletives, so if profanity offends you, read no further. He's also not a very nice
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Recently the twitterverse was aptly reminded by Dr. Marchella Ward of the existence of "The Road to Latin", a very fine Latin introductory textbook from 1932, not least because it was authored by a Black Woman, Helen Maria Chestnutt. On the whole, it makes excellent reading material for
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Look, I'm not saying I'm actually going to translate a whole novel into Ancient Greek, but here's the first page of Jo Walton's amazing speculative-fiction novel/classical reception, The Just City, rendered into Ancient Greek. Ἡ πόλις ἡ Δικαίᾱ Α’ · Ἀπόλλων
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In the last couple of days, occasioned at first by a tweet and corresponding discussions from Steven Runge, I’ve been teasing out in my head and a little bit of dialogue the difficulties of the “advanced discussion of Greek in Greek” question. It’s a question that any living
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Part 6 of our ongoing series (1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) We turn now to consider the Johannine references, which are five: 1:14, 18, 3:16, 18, and 1 John 4:9. Throughout this section I content that the established meaning of ‘siblingless’ in contexts referring to persons
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Download Bullet-with-butterfly-Wings-Anc-Greek.mp3 Here, for your ancient Greek pleasure, I present Smashing Pumpkin's Bullet with Butterfly Wings. Audio: (I sing quite badly. If anyone wants to re-record with a more delightful voice, I'm very happy to assist them to do
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I have a long and complicated relationship with Duolingo . The hate side, in short, is that I think the way Duolingo models language and thinks/treats language is fundamentally atomistic and inimical to good principles of second language acquisition. The love side is that I actually enjoy and continue to
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Part 5 of our ongoing series (1, 2, 3, and 4) 1st to 3rd CE usages Rather than turn directly to John, which is really the interpretative crux, we turn now to consider a range of usages, primarily non-Christian, across the first three centuries CE. Our focus here is
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An old tweet came back to life recently on my timeline, as we saw the launch of Daily Dose of Aramaic. The tweet had me tagged as someone who could possibly do a 'Daily Dose of Greek' but monolingually in Greek. At the time I don't
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I have been impressed and inspired by the conversion (to communicative approaches), commitment, and creativity of Carla Hurt over at Found in Antiquity in recent months, and especially the project to translate LingQ's 60 Mini-Stories into Latin. I am keen to see the same for Greek, so
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Part 4 of our ongoing series (1, 2 and 3) Josephus and the New Testament Corpus We turn now to consider occurrences in both the New Testament and Josephus. In the New Testament we find nine, in Josephus four.[1] The gospel of Luke contains three instances, Luke 7:12,
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Part 3 of our ongoing series (1 and 2) Monogenes and the Hebrew Bible We turn now to consider the usage of μονογενής in the LXX, its relation to the Hebrew word yachid (יָחִיד), and the reverse relation of yachid to ἀγαπητός. The LXX has ten occurrences of