Monday 27 August 2012

A Brief History of Hermes in ART

How the Greeks and Romans depicted Hermes in ART.

The earliest images of Hermes show a mature adult with a beard.




but this changes about the beginning of the hellenistic era



Hermes loses his beard and appears younger

then we have the Roman version



finally here's a modern depiction ... ye sit is a page form a comic book EARTH2 but Nicola Scott does excellent art and I wanted to show you a modern use of a mythic image.


Friday 17 August 2012

Some numi verbs


SOME – νυμι Verbs

Note One Some books print - νυμι verbs without the macron over the upsilon 

Note Two many of these verbs are only used combiend with prefixes.

Note Three
δείκνῡμι

is used for text book paradigms


δαίνῡμι entertain dine stem δαι dai

ννῡμι cloth robe stem wes like latin ves-tis

ζώννῡμι gird belt ζω sdoo

ζεύγνῡμι bind yoke join stem ζυγ

κεράννῡμι mix usually liquids stem κερα κρα kera kra

κορέννῡμι satiate satisfy stem κορε kore

κρεμάννῡμι suspend hang stem κρεμα krema

μΐγνῡμι mix mingle stem μιγ mig

οἴγνῡμι open stem oig

ὄλλῡμι stem ol is contracted from olnumi

μνῡμι swear an oath stem ομο or μο om(o)

ὄρνῡμι raise rouse stem ορ or

πήγνῡμι fix stem παγ

πετάννῡμι expand spread stem πετα peta

ήγνῡμι break stem αγ rag wrag

ώννῡμι strengthen stem ω ro

σβέννῡμι extinguish put out smother stem σβε sbe

σκεδάννῡμι scatter stem σκεδα

χρήγνῡμι color


If you missed it scroll back to read my post on δείκνῡμι.

Tuesday 14 August 2012

deiknumi



δείκνῡμι

is used for text book paradigms of - νῡμι verbs

δείκνῡμι and other νῡμι verbs have the following inflections

for Active Present Indicative

Singular δείκνῡμι δείκνῡς δείκνῡσι
Dual δείκνυτον
Plural δείκνυμεν δείκνυτε δείκνύᾱσι

For Imperfect you add ν ς ῡ υτον etc to ἐδείκν


For Subjunctive take a stem of δεικνύ and add the normal endings

Likewise for Optative

Goodwin's Grammar and other works show all the forms.

The main thing to remember is the u final and to watch how the accents shift

The Infinitive is δεικνύναι and the Participle δεικνύς

In Aorist δείκνῡμι has a First Aorist stem of δείξ and a Second Aorist stem of δύ

The Future stem is δείξ the Perfect δέδειχ and the Pluperfect ἐδεδείχ