Hello everyone,
This might sound too weird, but I have thought of composing a little book in Ancient Greek, but my idea would be to write in Ionic Greek, but I do not know if that is possible. (My referent is Herodotus)
Not because we do not have texts in that dialect, but because there are no dictionaries about that specific variety of the Greek language.
What do you think?
Thanks a lot!
Can you compose in Ionic Greek?
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Re: Can you compose in Ionic Greek?
Enoch Powell's
A Lexicon to Herodotus
will be useful. Good luck!
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The Sounds and Inflections of the Greek Dialects: * Ionic
A Grammar of Attic and Ionic Greek
A Lexicon to Herodotus
will be useful. Good luck!
Update
The Sounds and Inflections of the Greek Dialects: * Ionic
A Grammar of Attic and Ionic Greek
Corrections are welcome (especially for projects).
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Re: Can you compose in Ionic Greek?
Testing it just now, that dictionary in that digital form suffers from the problem that it displays the line of the reference, rather than the section. In other words, after clicking the reference in the dictionary, one needs to scroll down if the expected word is not in the selection.
@hmederos22 I admire your drive, and wish you all the best with this.
@hmederos22 I admire your drive, and wish you all the best with this.
τί δὲ ἀγαθὸν τῇ πομφόλυγι συνεστώσῃ ἢ κακὸν διαλυθείσῃ;
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Re: Can you compose in Ionic Greek?
Besides Herodotus, another good source of Ionian vocabulary from the fifth century are the various treatises of the Hippocratic Corpus. The Budé editions (at least the ones I've worked with) have excellent Indices Verborum, and there is also a comprehensive Index Hippocraticusto the entire corpus from Kühn & Fleischer and later editors.
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Re: Can you compose in Ionic Greek?
Any example of modern composition in Ionic?
Corrections are welcome (especially for projects).
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Re: Can you compose in Ionic Greek?
Here is a scan of Herodotus at the Zoo. Several other compositions in Ionic are listed as winners of the Gaisford Prize.
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Re: Can you compose in Ionic Greek?
There are also plenty of later imitations of Herodotean Ionic: off the top of my head - Arrian Indica, Lucian De Dea Syria, De Astrologia, parts of Quomodo Historia Conscribenda Sit and Vitarum Auctio, and the Life of Homer by 'Pseudo-Herodotus'. If anyone has any to add it might start becoming worthwhile to form a list.
I would counsel the student of Herodotean Greek composition to pay even closer attention to these works than to Hippocrates and Aretaeus.
Thanks for the finds, jcabraham & bedwere.
I would counsel the student of Herodotean Greek composition to pay even closer attention to these works than to Hippocrates and Aretaeus.
Thanks for the finds, jcabraham & bedwere.