What 📔book are you reading right now?

LaurelinBearsFruit · Dec 13, 2023

Next book planned to read is The Hot Young Widows Club by Nora McInery. Next non-grief-related book I plan to read is the Illiad by Homer.

JackTorrance · Dec 13, 2023

LaurelinBearsFruit said:
Next book planned to read is The Hot Young Widows Club by Nora McInery. Next non-grief-related book I plan to read is the Illiad by Homer.

Hey, I am also getting the Iliad too! Plus Aenid and Odyseey.

Vorondil · Dec 13, 2023

LaurelinBearsFruit said:
Next non-grief-related book I plan to read is the Illiad by Homer.

And so it begins.

Deimos · Dec 13, 2023

LaurelinBearsFruit said:
Next book planned to read is The Hot Young Widows Club by Nora McInery. Next non-grief-related book I plan to read is the Illiad by Homer.

Have you decided which translation of the Iliad you will read? (Unless you plan to read it in classical Greek)

Squint-eyed Southerner · Dec 13, 2023

Homeric Greek is different from Attic Greek, and would require special study to read.

Aldarion · Dec 13, 2023

LaurelinBearsFruit · Dec 13, 2023

Deimos said:
Have you decided which translation of the Iliad you will read? (Unless you plan to read it in classical Greek)

I will have to check which it is when I get home from work. I will report back!

Firiel23 · Dec 13, 2023

LaurelinBearsFruit said:
I will have to check which it is when I get home from work. I will report back!

You are at work!!!
so am I!

Deimos · Dec 13, 2023

Squint-eyed Southerner said:
Homeric Greek is different from Attic Greek, and would require special study to read.

Ain't no Greeks ever lived in no attics!

I never took Greek (only Latin) but had friends who studied "Classics" (reading Homer and the Greek playwrights and poets) and they always referred to the language as "Classical Greek", (it not being Koine Greek or modern Greek)

Glorfindel Goldtress · Dec 13, 2023

Deimos said:
Koine Greek

Is this derived from the Greek word Koinonia meaning Fellowship?

Deimos · Dec 13, 2023

Glorfindel Goldtress said:
Is this derived from the Greek word Koinonia meaning Fellowship?

Couldn't tell you... I am ignorant of Ancient/classical Greek except words that were "Latinized".
Maybe S-e-S knows.

Olorgando · Dec 13, 2023

Deimos said:
Ain't no Greeks ever lived in no attics!
I never took Greek (only Latin) but had friends who studied "Classics" (reading Homer and the Greek playwrights and poets) and they always referred to the language as "Classical Greek", (it not being Koine Greek or modern Greek)

But in Attica, the peninsula on which Athens is located, which goes back at least to the Mycenaean period ending in the Bronze Age collapse around 1200 BC.
Koine Greek was spoken during the Hellenistic period following the Classical one, so after Alexander. And it's the Greek of the Septuagint an the New Testament.

Deimos · Dec 13, 2023

Olorgando said:
But in Attica, the peninsula on which Athens is located, which goes back at least to the Mycenaean period ending in the Bronze Age collapse around 1200 BC.
Koine Greek was spoken during the Hellenistic period following the Classical one, so after Alexander. And it's the Greek of the Septuagint an the New Testament.

I wasn't equating Koine greek with modern Greek.
My "classics" friends had to explain to the uninformed person that Classical Greek was neither Koine Greek nor Modern Greek
And I knew the Septuagint was in Koine Greek (with a smattering of Hebrew and Aramaic).
Latin wasn't even the dominant language of Rome in the last few centuries before its fall... Koine Greek was spoken as much as was Latin.

Kolbitar · Dec 13, 2023

Elthir said:
Till We Have Faces, C. S. Lewis

it's based on the tale of Eros and Psyche

I always thought this was Lewis' greatest work, outside of his academic work, though it's been a long while since I read it. I would love to hear your thoughts on it.

Deimos · Dec 13, 2023

I've read it 4, maybe 5 times.
I've got to leave for the evening...I'll mention a few things about it when I return.

Halasían · Dec 13, 2023

Return of the King Appendices.

Squint-eyed Southerner · Dec 14, 2023

Deimos said:
Maybe S-e-S knows.

It's just from Koinos, "common" -- as in "common dialect".

Since I see by a post elsewhere from @Firiel23 that I seem to be expected to supply links, here's something Tolkien-related from a Greek member:

Post in thread 'A Favorite Passage' https://thetolkien.forum/threads/a-favorite-passage.23567/post-518530

Vorondil · Dec 14, 2023

I'm slowly making my way through a digital copy of Hue Hue or The Monster by H. Rider Haggard, it is another of his books about Allan Quartermain, which I enjoy, but sadly the digitalness of it, leaches some of the enjoyment out.

Firiel23 · Dec 14, 2023

Elthir said:
Till We Have Faces, C. S. Lewis

it's based on the tale of Eros and Psyche

such a good book.

Firiel23 · Dec 14, 2023

Squint-eyed Southerner said:
Since I see by a post elsewhere from @Firiel23 that I seem to be expected to supply links, here's something Tolkien-related from a Greek member:

❤️ thanks! I love the wisdom you post on here. You're like our very own TTF Gandalf, curmudgeonly and wise, keeping all us newbies on the straight and narrow!

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