r/AncientGreek

I did this in Google docs and I was wondering if there is any software that does this more fluidly? Even if it's manual and not automatic.

Dear all. I found a gem on Youtube: someone dubbed in Attic Greek a short scene from the little known movie The Odyssey by Coppola. Goddess Athena speaking ancient Greek sounds cool I think. What do u think about the Greek?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZeVQMMTS20

So I was in Amasra the other day and I found a Museum with Greek writing, I then found this letter what letter is this? It's like a Upsilon with a Line on it (the actual inscription in the next slide)

Unlike other books of the Laurentian Library (including all the Plutei), this rather famous manuscript has not been reproduced digitally so it's not easy to see specimens of it.

Laur. Conv. soppr. 627 (usually shortened as F) is a well known Greek manuscript of the late XIII century. The reason for its fame is twofold: it contains four of the five "Greek novels" (the only exception being Heliodorus), being codex unicus for Xenophon of Ephesus and Chariton, the only witness to the φ-family of Achilles Tatius (according to Vilborg), and a primary witness to Longus (according to Reeve).

The second reason is that, despite its pocket-size (17.3 x 12.8 cm: smaller than the Cambridge Green-and-Yellow format, roughly the size of an OCT edition), F contains no less than twenty-two items in 140 folios, written in an almost microscopic handwriting by a single copyist who regularly managed to fill fifty lines per page. The most notable pieces of literature herein are the four Greek novels, compressed and almost "hidden" in the span of a little more than 50 folios (ff. 22r–79v).

There also is a third reason for the manuscript's fame: the so-called «affaire Courier». Albeit known to scholars since the times of Politianus (who read Longus and Xenophon Eph. on this ms. before 1489) and Stephanus (who collated Achilles Tatius in 1547–55), F had been forgotten and, more importantly, never been closely inspected. Montfaucon and D'Orville knew the manuscript and signalled that it also contained Longus, but did not collate its text, even if Montfaucon had dated the handwriting to the XIII century (thus, earlier than the other known witnesses).

Paul-Louis Courier (1772–1825) "rediscovered" F in December 1807 and collated it more carefully in November 1809, finding that the text of Longus as it is transmitted by F does not suffer from the lacuna (1.12.5 τῆς ταινίας – 1.17.4 αὐτῆς) that distinguishes the other branch of tradition, represented by B (vat. gr. 1398). He published his finding in the same 1809, a complete translation of the novel in 1810 (limited ed. of sixty copies, advertised as "traduction complète d'après le manuscrit de Florence"), and shortly after the "new" Greek text with Latin translation and the complete text of Longus. Courier's editions are not memorable in terms of constitutio textus, but were unawarely based on the correct sources, for he had travelled to Rome and collated a Roman manuscript that is now identified with Vat. gr. 1398, that is B, the archetype of the other branch of transmission. In short, the transmission is bifid (and contaminated), and the two branches trace back to B and F which is, however, the only complete manuscript.

While Courier was printing his edition(s) of Longus, the librarian of the Badia fiorentina, Francesco del Furia, had found that the page of F bringing the 'new' text of Longus (f. 23v) had been damaged by a large blot which made the text illegible. The cause of this have never been established: Courier attributed it to a piece of paper that he had used as a bookmark, which got impregnated with ink and made it leak it on the manuscript; Del Furia (and Cobet), on the other hand, suspected that Courier had deliberately provoked the damage so that nobody else could claim the discovery. Only on 22 January 1811, fourteen months after the incident, Courier mailed his transcription to the Laurentian library. The document was immediately archived and lied forgotten, until Rosario Pintaudi rediscovered it in 1978.

Del Furia immediately published a pamphlet attacking Courier, Lettera della scoperta et subitanea perdita di una parte inedita del primo Libro de' Pastorali di Longo (1809). In its present state, the page is largely illegible, although modern photography and digital editing have permitted small progresses. There exist, however, a transcription made by Courier (aided by Del Furia and the vice-librarian Gasparo Bencini), later revised by Courier alone; and another transcription, made by Bencini and Del Furia, immediately after the damage had been found. Thus, for the "found and lost" Longus, we do not only depend on Courier's edition (which is emended ope ingenii, according to the practice of the time).

Reproduced are:

1. f. 76v, 59 lines, containing Xenophon Eph. V 1.1–12.
2. ff. 31v–32r, 40 lines each, containing Longus III 18.3–27.4.

Sources

• A. Cajumi, Courier, Paul-Louis, in Enciclopedia Italiana (1931) [Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani].
• N. Festa – E. Rostagno, Indice dei codici greci Laurenziani non compresi nel catalogo del Bandini, «SIFC» 1 (1893), 129–232: 172–6 [Google Books].
• A. Guida, Qualche novità dalla pagina macchiata del codice Laur. Conv. soppr. 627 di Longo, in A. Casanova – G. Messeri – R. Pintaudi (eds.), e sì d'amici pieno. Omaggio a Guido Bastianini II (Firenze, 2016), 495–504.
• R. Merkelbach – H. van Thiel, Griechisches Leseheft zur Einführung in Paläographie und Textkritik (Göttingen, 1965), pl. 21 (p. 68), for f. 76v.
• R. Pintaudi, La polemica Courier-Del Furia a proposito del Laurenziano Gr. Conv. soppr. 627. Documenti di archivio, «Atti Accad. Colombaria» 43, n.s. 29 (1978), 201–38.
• G. Vitelli – C. Paoli, Collezione fiorentina di facsimili paleografici greci e latini (Firenze, 1897), pl. 23, for ff. 31v–32r [digi-hub.de].

Reference editions

• J. N. O'Sullivan (ed.), Xenophon Ephesius, De Anthia et Habrocome Ephesiacorum libri V (München – Leipzig, 2005) [Bibl. Teubner.]
• M. D. Reeve (ed.), Longus, Daphnis et Chloe (3rd ed., Stuttgart – Leipzig, 1994) [Bibl. Teubner.]
• E. Vilborg (ed.), Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon (Göteborg 1955); Commentary (Göteborg 1962). — This edition was groundbreaking for it used almost all the known manuscripts and determined the textual transmission, but for a better critical text and more precise apparatus one should make use of J.-Ph. Garnaud (ed.), Achille Tatius, Le roman de Leucippé et Clitophon (Paris 1991; 2nd ed. 1994) [Budé].

Pinakes: 15899 (with further bibliography).

I have added Nemesis (as described by Aristotelēs) to right thought. I have added Praotés (as described by Aristotelēs) to Right Action.

Nothing was fundementally wrong; I just feel that it is more accurate and precise this way.

Karl Marx used Lord Aristotelēs' ideas to support his criticism of Capitalism. He claimed Capitalism is a disease, and I believe he was close to Truth.

I dont think Capitalism is a disease, it is the product of a disease, an outcome. Uncontrolled CAPITALISM is a product of the DISEASE OF HYPOCRACY. hypocracy is a virus that destroys virtue itself, hypocracy will destroy ALL life on Earth unless we FIGHT BACK.

Regarding step 8:

Understanding that Lord Christ, Lord Plato, Lord Aristotelēs, and Lord Siddhartha were ALL Buddhas is necessary for the future of LOGIC and REASON itself.

If we can not accept this SIMPLE TRUTH, hypocracy will spread, and so will pollution. More plants and animals will die. Our sufferings will grow exponentially.

If we do not devolop Virtue as a species, we will go extinct with certainty. If we can devolop Virtue and challenge hypocracy, it is possible for OUR children to one day know PEACE on earth. They may even see another star.

It is important to consider the concept and progression of the 4 Jhãnas when thinking of Right Concentration and Eudaimonia as equals.

After you study and learn these Truths, will you help share this message around the world?

Sādhu Sādhu Shanti!

Om Shanti L'chaim, AMEN!

I and I, Rastafari.

my new tattoo, based on the τρισολβιος from the orphic gold leaves from pelinna – when i saw the stencil printed out, i thought the sigma looked strange not connected to the omicron as i always link the sigma to the next word when i handwrite greek, so i asked the artist to link the two... then i realised during the tattoo that it actually looks strange since the rest of the letters are separated and may obscure people from clearly reading it as a sigma and omicron. what do you think, is the word τρισολβια clear? is the sigma rendered weirdly?