Re: Greek Grammar in Greek

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 18 1999 - 09:48:52 EST


At 4:57 PM +0000 3/17/99, Mark Goodacre wrote:
>What do any of you make of the following? It is Boethetika Biblia: A
>Greek concise grammar by Euphylax Constantinos, web version beginning at:
>
>http://deeneserver.deene.ufu.br/wwwonos/grammar/GRAMMAR1.HTML
>
>The ethos behind it is explained at:
>
>http://deeneserver.deene.ufu.br/wwwonos/grammar/Grammar0.html
>
>The author of the web version wrote to me and asked if I would consider
>adding a link. What do you think of it?

It is indeed classical Attic, and accompanying it at

http://deeneserver.deene.ufu.br/wwwonos/onos1-1.html

is an illustrated text in the original of Lucian's (of Samosata) ONOS
("Ass"--this is the primary inspiration, I think, for the late Latin
classic "Golden Ass" of Apuleius.

Note that Boethetika Biblia has nothing to do with "Bible"; it is simply
Greek for "Book of Help."

Carl W. Conrad
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