KNOW YOURSELF

 KNOW YOURSELF 

Scholarship can be a form and method of developing insight if we actually apply and use certain principles?

gnwthi is an imperative verb  and the pronoun is se the accusative form  of se + auton self 

Is Classical Greek really so "Irregular"

 IS CLASSICAL GREEK 

Really So IRregular ?

#classicalgreek #greek #irregular 

So a few times a year I like to review basic Greek and I did a Google search to see what people thought was the most difficult aspect of learning Classical Greek and after understanding the Alphabet the other problem that came up several times was "IRREGULAR" forms?

Yes Greek has more suffixes and morphs than English. 

Yes you have to learn Moods and Cases and Conjugations and Genitive and Declensions

 but think for a moment!

Is Greek really that much worse than English?

Greek has less homophones. 

Even so called irregular verbs follow common patterns.

You say the verb to be?

Look again at English. Modern English forms of the verb TO BE  fuses two different Old English Germanic verbs wesan and beon and then goes and uses other verbs that once had different meanings like should and would and could  to express conditionals and a change of spoken tone can make a statement like "you should be reading" into an Imperative an Exhortation or a Question?

So the Greek Subjunctive Mood is that much worse? 

Is it such a terrible thing that phrases like the The Good Book and the Good Woman use two different forms of THE and have case endings? 

Muses in Ivory

 THE MUSES IN IVORY 

This piece is NOT the finest depiction of the Muses but it has a certain liveliness and definite energy.

Does it seem to you that they are dancing?

Have you visited Sophoklea's Garden YET?

 Have you visited Sophoklea's Garden YET?

Even if you have no interest in learning Greek could you take a minute to visit my Patreon and test read the educational materials and review them for me? Yes some of them are in the $1 tier but others are free. 

https://www.patreon.com/metousia 

Reverse Greek Test Five

 Todays Reverse Greek Test is the Opening lines of one of Euripides plays

#euripides #classicgreek #atticdrama #transliteration 

Can you guess which play it is and translate it?

Which god is speaking? 

Atlas ho khalkeoisi nootois ouranon 

theooon palaion oikon ektriboon theoon 

mias ephuse maian hee m<e> egeinato 

a few clues nootois shoulders back 

ektriboo rub or wear out 

mias is mia feminine form of one 

who is Atlas daughter 

who is his grandchild 

Also can you identify the Epic forms of one dative and one verb?

I may type up these lines and more of the prologue and post them onto metousia

which play is this 

Muses on a Sarcophagus

 #muses #sarcophagus 

I have no particular reason for sharing this expect its March which starts with an M and I have bits and piece sof left image files in a folder from prior websurf 

Enjoy 

REVERSE GREEK and Xenophon

 XENOPHON REVERSE GREEK

Here are the opening words of Xenophon's Anabasis transliterated into Roman ABC

dareiou kai parusatidas gignontai paides dou

 presbuteros men artakserksees neooteros de kuros 

My suggestion is that you test yourself or students by either reading it aloud or getting them to write it with Greek letters for practice? 

Welcome to Sophoklea's Garden

 NEWS

 I have added something new to my METOUSIA  #patreon

Its called 

SOPHOKLEA'S GARDEN

Lessons in Classical Greek 

These will be aimed at Absolute Beginners  who might not have any knowledge of other languages or grammar or linguistics.

Come and visit and review or make suggestions 

There will be still be separate pdfs you can use for yourself or students

Meanwhile I will be doing more Reverse Greek texts on this blog .