Sunday, July 17, 2011

My Homeric greek project

My project to relearn Greek continues. I've not made much progress on the passage of the Iliad (book 21, lines 34-138.) I am on line 66 today. But I have started using one of the schoolbooks, _A Reading course in Homeric Greek_ by Raymond V. Schoder, S.J., M.A., Ph.D.; Vincent C. Horrigan, S.J., M.A.; revised with additional material by Leslie Collins Edwards. 3rd rev. ed., 2004. 2 vols. All told, 230 individual lessons. I'm just at the first lessons on the declension of nouns. A long way to go, but only the first 60 lessons are grammar, etc. After that it is reading Homer (mostly.) I need to do a bit each day; a few lines from my chosen passage in Iliad book 21 and a lesson a day from Schoder, Horrigan, and Edwards.