January 2003 * Web version
M. Laistner:
Knowledge of Greek in
Western Europe during the earlier Middle Ages
Whilst
warning against the assumption of his predecessors,
Ludwig Traube argued that the Irish were virtually the
only students of Greek, and that the occurrence of Graeca, Greek words or
tags, in a manuscript pointed to Irish authorship or influence.
... If
by "knowledge of Greek" is meant the ability correctly to understand a Greek author
theological or secular, or the Greek Bible, then assuredly competent Hellenists
of the eighth and ninth centuries can be counted on one hand. If, on the other
hand, it merely implies acquaintance with the Greek alphabet, with a few
passages from the Greek liturgy, or with a few isolated Greek words or phrases,
generally from the Old and New Testament, then the sum of the accomplished will
be somewhat greater, though still small in proportion to the total number of
literate men. It has been a radical fault of many modern discussions of
the subject that little or no distinction has been drawn between the first and
the second class that we have indicated. [Read
complete]
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Re-written in German by Ayye^os
Imagined to be a half-goddess, sprung from the love between a
human and a Greek deity, beautiful Lady Alicia is the personified protagonist of
Truth in this version in German, which obeys to a hexametrical rhythm giving
tribute to its original roots. - Was bricht so machtvoll
hervor wie die Sonne, liebste Alicia ? / Gleichnishaft wirklich wie Liebe aus
deinen strahlenden Augen ? / Rasend begehre ich es wie ein Blinder seine
Erleuchtung ! [Read
more]
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Never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the theif of time. Collar him! [added by Katie - ktbug4]***
On Pericles Giannopoulos
Steve writes:
... Only one thing worries me. The man who sang that way the Greek landscape how it came and committed suicide, giving a tragic end to this pleasure? It is perhaps explained by his brain illness. ... [Read more]
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Windows Hardcore
New version of Kalos Greek verbs conjugator available at www.conjugator.net (thanks for letting us know Gonzalo and Mariana!). Note that Kalos' new version is written in java, making the life of Windows users difficult.
The sound and exclude programs functions, is what we asked from Polital Enterprises a few months ago thinking that this will help some users, including us. Thank you for paying attention to our feedback. Point-N-Click is simply a program we can't live without!
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Links
[on the occasion of the second part of "The Lord of the Rings"]
The Hobbit Habit, By Robert M. Adams
The siege of Isengard is very like the siege of Gondor; again and again the heroes are called on to crawl through dark and perilous underground passages to which Agnew's wisdom applies -- when you've seen one tunnel, you've seen 'em all. And the hobbits take an inordinate number of forced marches cross-country, which exhaust not only the little creatures but the reader. Still, it is a world in which one can be caught up, with surprises and suspense to atone for the occasional longueurs, and a reassuring sense over all that Good is always good to its supporters and will certainly prevail. [Read more]
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Πέτρος Δαμασκηνός, Πώς αποκτά κάποιος αληθινή πίστη
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