I'm getting much better at writing Greek characters (better than my handwriting in English some days).

But the character Ξ still looks unnecessarily elaborate, showing off even.

Maybe ξ is trying to make a point too.

#AncientGreek

This counts as study for my #AncientGreek exam, doesn't it?

Is it rational to like a word as much as I like ποιέω?

The way it rolls around in the mouth, the way it sounds, and in different conjugations. A beautiful word.

(It could just be me: cotīdiē and hodiē used to make me smile whenever I came across them in Latin sentences.)

#AncientGreek #Latin

New Penguin Classic just dropped.

#Classics #AncientGreek #Latin #books #bookstodon

Treatise on rhetoric, literally translated from the Greek, with an analysis by Thomas Hobbes, and a series of questions. New ed., to which is added a supplementary analysis containing the Greek definitions. Also, The poetic of Aristotle, literally translated, with a selection of notes, an analysis, and questions : Aristotle : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/treatiseonrheto00aris ~via @internetarchive #Bookstodon #Ebook #Ebooks #Reading #Artistotle #AncientGreek #Greek #Rhetoric #Philosophy #Translation @bookstodon @philosophy

I Asked Every #GPT4All #LLM To Translate This #AncientGreek #Papyrus and Here's What Happened https://gist.github.com/ryanfb/f02469b92874af3b82f399acf1fa3881

I want to learn Esperanto for anarchist reasons.

I want to keep up my French because I've invested so much into it and I love it.

I want to learn Irish to connect with my ancestors in a very witchy, historic ways.

I want to continue learning ancient Greek for scholarly purposes and philosophical fun times.

Even me, the prince of ADHD, cannot manage this hunger.

#linguistics #languagelearning #esperanto #irish #irishlanguage #ADHD #ancientgreek #koine #atticgreek #greek

🚨 Come work with us! 🚨

My department is hiring a contractually limited assistant professor (1 year - we all wish it were longer) in #classics. 2-2 teaching load, courses in #AncientGreek and/or #Latin. Feel free to reach out with questions. #AcademicJobs

https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Assistant-Professor-Contractually-Limited-Term-Appointment%2C-Classics/571584717/

The epigram in the Geoffrey Steadman edition of Ritchie’s Fabulae Faciles is:

"To make the ancients speak, we must feed them with our own blood."
- von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff

That accurately describes how I feel after I've handed in an ancient history or Latin assignment. 🩸 📜 🏛 🏺 🩸

#AncientHistory #AncientMed #Latin #LinguaLatina #AncientGreek #StudentLife

@ou_phrontis Here's the quote in #ancientGreek and translated to English (not my translation).
Let me know if it can be improved 🤗

First classical Greek exam done, thus ending the semester. I'm usually wrecked after a language exam, so no exception there (and not over-committing at all 😬).

Still, time now to relax and/or get my notes in order for second semester Greek. (Yes, I'm a mature-age student, why do you ask?)

#AncientGreek #ClassicalGreek #AncientLanguages #StudentLife

Hi! I'm a Dutch guy fresh in my thirties. I love #language and #linguistics. I studied #Latin and #AncientGreek. I play #piano, and have made some attempts to learn how to sing. I enjoy playing #BoardGames, and I also play in three #DungeonsAndDragons groups.

I was diagnosed #autistic around ten years old. Over the last few years, I've discovered some of the many ways autistic people connect through the internet, and I'm looking forward to doing more of that here.

#introduction

New article

Poiētic Truth (Alētheia) in Archaic Greece: Comparative Anthropology / Heideggerian Intimations
by James M. Magrini

#Detienne #Heidegger #AncientGreek
https://thedecadentreview.com/corpus/poietic-truth-aletheia-in-archaic-greece-comparative-anthropology-heideggerian-intimations/

Ancient Greek revision in the coffee shop is a completely normal way to spend a Sunday morning, yes?
(It is if you have an exam in 10 days.)

Imperfect: I was revising.
Also imperfect: More revision needed. 😅

#AncientGreek #StudentLife

The cup-bearer, a rare exemplar of the ancient-modern Cycladic style: "The outstretched right arm, with the slightly flexed elbow, profters a small beaker. The freely extended hand is an extremely rare feature in Cycladic sculpting". 2800-2300 BCE #AncientArt #Art #sculpture #AncientGreek #Cyclades #Aegean #Greece #Ganymede #mythology #archaeology

@algernon I’d call you a Cynic, but in the #ancientgreek context of calling it like you see it in public, which I respect as #superversive 🫡

You know, I expected to learn new things about the ancient Greeks by learning their language, but I really did not expect this to be the first major lesson: how much they clearly loved a definite article.

#AncientGreece #AncientGreek #AncientMed #LanguageLearning

Audio Etymologies of the Day

"Milk" descends from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ- [ħmelg, ɐ̥melg], something like this:
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/milk-from-PIE-h2melg.wav

*h₂melǵ- also descended into Sanskrit मर्जति marjati “to clean, wipe”, something like this:
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-h2melg-to-Sanskrit-marjati.wav

and into Ancient Greek ἀμέλγω ‎amelgo, the initial [a] of which gives evidence for the pronunciation of *h₂:
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-h2melg-to-AncientGreek-amelgo.wav

@linguistics #audio #etymology #phonetics #EnglishLanguage #ProtoIndoEuropean #Sanskrit #AncientGreek

For #NationalDolphinDay: #AncientGreek polychrome phiale with omphalos, decorated with #dolphins 🐬 and bonus #octopuses 🐙 - Eretria, 4th quarter 6th century BCE, H 5cm / D 20.8cm.
Musée du Louvre: https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010274852

Is it 'Chrest' or 'Christ'? Both forms appear in Tacitus and Suetonius, two Roman authors active in the 110s CE.

The answer lies mainly in Greek pronunciation and Latin transliteration conventions, with a dash of Christian palaeographic conventions.

Reading time: 10 minutes
https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2023/03/chrest-or-christ.html

#roman #ancientgreek #greek #latin #christianity #classics