Greek Reading Group Page

Reading Assignment

• 1/13/04 to 1/27/04: The story of Jonah, first page, lines 1-10.
• 1/27/04 to 3/30/04: The story of Jonah, last page, lines 1-20. Try to look at the first part of the Crucifixion too.
• 6/2/04 to 6/8/04: Just show up!
• 6/8/04 to 6/21/04: ?

Meeting Arrangements

• Meeting 1: Tuesday, January 27th, at 7:30pm.
• Meeting 2: Tuesday, March 30th, at 7:30pm.
• Meeting 3: Tuesday, June 8th, at 7:30pm.
• Meeting 4: Monday, June 21st, at 7:30pm.

I believe that we will try going to a classroom on the 2nd floor of building 4. To get there from 77 Massachuetts Ave, go straight down the long corridor, past the lobby with the big windows on the right, past the big dollar bill painted on the wall. At the 2nd set of stairs past the dollar bill (one is right after the dollar bill and the second set is another section further on), go up one floor and take the corridor perpendicular to the original hall. The classrooms are down the hall on the left hand side; check for us in one of them. We will probably use 4-251 or 4-253, which are most of the way down the hall.

Electronic Resources

• The mailing list we are using for this group is greek-reading@mit.edu. Feel free to ask questions, etc over this list.

• I am also creating a discussion group/posting forum. The site for this is Greek Reading Blog Forum. Anyone can read it, but if you wish to post to it, you must register with blogspot. Email me if you need help with this; I sent registration invites to the log on 1/16/04.

• A Greek morphology decoder for those really hard words.

• Greek and Latin language resource site including links to the Middle Liddle online, etc.

Other Reading Materials

• An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, ISBN 0199102066, aka the Middle Liddle. I have this lexicon and it has served me well up to this point. $45.00 at amazon.com.
• An Introduction to Greek, ISBN 0865165548. Known as "Crosby and Schaeffer" (the authors), I learned Greek the first time from this little book. It's a bit sparse (it was written in 1928), but it provides a much gentler introduction to Greek than Hansen and Quinn. $23.00 from amazon.com.
• A Greek Reader for Schools, ISBN 0865162670. A short book which has a number of excerpts and adaptations of literature, including Aesop, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, etc. It includes a vocabulary in the back and some notes. Paperback. I expect to try to translate some things from this book at some point. $19.00 at amazon.com.
• Xenophon: Anabasis, ISBN 067499101X. One of the Loeb series, it contains parallel English and Greek of the Anabasis. Not much in terms of notes or vocabulary, this is tough to do on your own. Hardcover. $12.50 at amazon.com.