Notes on Luke 12 : 16 - 21

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LUKE 12 Verses 16 - 21 

So whats interesting and good teaching examples in the Greek text
thats not obvious in the translation?

Verse 16

Note how the adjectives follow AFTER the noun
of/ for genitive a man certain rich bore the land
Harvest is euphoreesen  a positive burden - eu + phoros

Verse 17

dialegomai Imperfect and 2 lovely examples of FUTURE poieesoo and sunaksoo
from poieoo and sunagoo

Verse 18

katheloo is FUTURE from kathairew ? Why ?
The stem is haireoo. R changes to L. kata plus "H" to kath

apotheekee a storehouse barn or granary as a place you put things away in apo+theke from titheemi

Verse 19

EROO another Future  Note syntax of eis etee polla
anapauou is a Present Imperative but Phage is Aorist then with euphrainoo an Present Imperative
Phage is one of those verbs that use a different Verb for the Present - esthioo

Verse 20

aphroon a foolish person is mindless

apaitousin from apaaiteoo God wants people to be prepared to give back

heetoimasas Aorist of hetoimazoo prepare get ready

he who stores up treasures is 2 words in ho theesaurizoon

Next week back to the Pagans and we look at Poseidon since Haloea was in December

Coming soon A greek Christmas card to share !

Poseidon and Bad and Good Art

Classical Greek Art didn't emerge like Athena from the head of a god. It evolved and some of the archaic artists really couldn't draw! 

This is a ceramic plaque from a Corinthinian workshop.

Yes it is Poseidon. See the badly rendered trident and then there's the misuse of sgraffito.

This seems to have been a rush job? Especially compared to this!

Note the much more careful elegant linework in this closeup of Poseidon Enthroned.

Most of the finest classical pieces came from Attic workshops.

I'm wondering if the many metics encouraged to migrate to Athens included Ceramic painters ?

I'm wondering how the ceramics painters practised their drawing skills with no supply of cheap paper. Did they practise on broken pots? Did they use wax or clay tablets?

Judgement of Hermes

JUDGEMENT OF PARIS CERAMIC PAINTING
Some Observations

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Hermes is a bearded adult not the beardless youth of many Hellenistic and Roman works. The painter has used the white slip to emphasize small details that might not stand out on the traditional older black background and has used some kind of yellow ochre as well as a red ochre and black giving him or her a 4 color 5 if you count white palette?

There's a hint of beads or embroidery on Hera's robes and the yellow ochre is used to outline the wings on Hermes' boots and on Hera's crown. Black seems to have been mixed with red to create a dark brown for the edges of robes unless thats fading?

The overall effect is simple elegance with restraint and balance. Some of the rendering seems almost "sketchy" to a modern eye especially if you expect a wider tonal range so bear in mind these images were painted on small objects not massive urns and the Greek painters and potters did not have modern glazes to use.  No ceramics supplies stores or factories !

Female Harper

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Female Harper

There's a lot of fading but fortunately a lot of useful remaining detail.

It's possible the girl or young woman shown may be a hetairia a "Companion" given her transparent dress however she also has her middle covered so maybe its simply a summer dress of extremely translucent linen with a outer robe lowered to cushion her harp.

You can clearly see the girl has reddish brown hair and I say girl because she has her hair down.

Musicians will find the details of the fingering on the strings of interest.

A quietly beautiful and very classical work showing a mastery of line and color.

It is generally presumed painters were male including the painters who worked on ceramics but given the Athenians had small family workshops I wonder if the painter could have been a woman as if this is a portrait a woman painter might have been allowed inside the women's rooms of a house to sketch a beloved daughter or young wife playing her harp?

LYSIAS on Patreon

There will be more #Lysias educational excerpts in PDF format available from the #metousia #patreon this week !

Here's what one sculptor thought he looked like.

I will be posting the Amazons passage from Lysias's Funeral Oration on the Patreon that runs parallel to this blog. Watch twitter for updates.

THETIS

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Greek artists often depicted Thetis as accompanied by dolphins, sea horses or Tritones.

So the female figure riding a sea horse in these two mosaics may very well be Thetis however another popular theme was her Wedding to Peleus.

As Thetis like other sea gods had shapeshifting powers the lion on her shoulder would tell a Greek viewer this is Peleus the mortal father of Achilles wrestling with the goddess.

One aspect of the story rarely pointed out that would explain her resistance  is that Peleus killed her nephew and she seems to have had mixed feelings about her marriage to a mere mortal though given the other choices were being ravished by Zeus or Poseidon ... 

Passive secrets

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LUKE 12:2

A lot of people are fascinated by this verse because they think it hints at Gnostic mysteries or encourages mysticism or is about prophecies and various other explanations.

Another aspect of interest are the verb forms

ouden de sugkekalmmenon estin ho ouk apokaluphtheesetai kai krupton ho ou gnoostheesetai

nothing (there) is and which has been hidden perfect passive participle of sugkaluptoo

note the the removal of too and the change and doubling of the p to m
note that pi + mu becomes double mu

then ho with an accent so who or which not FUTURE PASSIVE will be revealed
teh pi changes again to a phi befor ethe theta that marks passive
and  secret which will be known ginooskoo has a sigma before the passive marker as the actual stem is gnoo

Note which in Greek not that

Note the future passive

Lets reverse that without changing the meaning more than slightly

If Jesus had spoken modern English he might have said everything that is hidden or covered up or secret will become revealed or known.

I think Luke was not just bilingual or multilingual and not only retains the parallelism we see in Hebrew texts but enhances this with prose rhythm being a speaker of Koine Greek who probably also read some classical Greek literature.

So this verse tells us something about secrets and about posibly about Luke as a person and writer.

Consider next what verse 3 says that things said in the dark will be heard in the light and private whisperings proclaimed in public.

No more secrets.

and 3 very good examples of the passive and sound changes caused by adding theta to a stem