From helmadik@midway.uchicago.edu Sat Mar 30 14:13:02 2002 Received: from mailscan1.cac.washington.edu (mailscan1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.16]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g2UMD1DN068228 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 14:13:01 -0800 Received: FROM mxu1.u.washington.edu BY mailscan1.cac.washington.edu ; Sat Mar 30 14:13:00 2002 -0800 Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.12]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g2UMD0c6018406 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 14:13:00 -0800 Received: from [128.135.57.40] (h-dik.uchicago.edu [128.135.57.40]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2UMD0r28764 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 16:13:00 -0600 (CST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: helmadik@nsit-popmail.uchicago.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 16:12:55 -0600 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: Helma Dik Subject: Re: Pharr's Homeric Greek or Joint Ass'n Of Classical Teachers? Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="============_-1194596117==_ma============" --============_-1194596117==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" >Greetings, > > I am going to begin a self study course in Ancient Greek and >have narrowed my text choices down to two. Either Pharr's Homeric >Greek or the Joint Association of Classical Teachers Reading Greek >series. Would some of you mind giving me a recommendation as to >which text would be preferable? I live in Hawai'i and will have no >access to a teacher. > By the way, thank you all for the interesting discussions. I >learn something new and interesting from you every day. > >Joseph Fichter I would suggest the Reading Greek series because of all its help for the teacherless, and I would add that Reading Greek does give some assistance with reading Homer as well at the very end of the book. Then also, there are far more internet resources available for students of New Testament and classical Greek (see overview at http://www.greekgrammar.com) than for beginning students of Homer; all of which makes starting out with Homer *in my opinion* perhaps a noble enterprise but a bad, bad idea. If you are going it alone, I would suggest getting one more textbook that comes with an answer key. For a fuller answer to your query, with which I am for 99% in agreement, see Steve Trzaskoma's page at http://www.classicalmyth.com/greek/standardresponse.html Still better: come to the mainland for an intensive summer course:-) Best of luck, -- Helma Dik Dept. of Classics University of Chicago helmadik@midway.uchicago.edu http://humanities.uchicago.edu/classics/ --============_-1194596117==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Re: Pharr's Homeric Greek or Joint Ass'n Of Classical
Greetings,
      I am going to begin a self study course in Ancient Greek and have narrowed my text choices down to two. Either Pharr's Homeric Greek or the Joint Association of Classical Teachers Reading Greek series. Would some of you mind giving me a recommendation as to which text would be preferable? I live in Hawai'i and will have no access to a teacher.
      By the way, thank you all for the interesting discussions. I learn something new and interesting from you every day.

Joseph Fichter

I would suggest the Reading Greek series because of all its help for the teacherless, and I would add that Reading Greek does give some assistance with reading Homer as well at the very end of the book.  Then also, there are far more internet resources available for students of New Testament and classical Greek (see overview at http://www.greekgrammar.com) than for beginning students of Homer; all of which makes starting out with Homer *in my opinion* perhaps a noble enterprise but a bad, bad idea. If you are going it alone, I would suggest getting one more textbook that comes with an answer key.

For a fuller answer to your query, with which I am for 99% in agreement, see Steve Trzaskoma's page at http://www.classicalmyth.com/greek/standardresponse.html

Still better: come to the mainland for an intensive summer course:-)

Best of luck,
--
Helma Dik
Dept. of Classics
University of Chicago
helmadik@midway.uchicago.edu
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/classics/
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