Most standard textbooks focus on Erasmian pronunciation which I draw issues with. So I’m using standard Greek pronunciation and I need help pronouncing ράβδος. Ρ always having a rough breathing I’m tripping over my tongue.
Would it be hravthos. Day 4 of a lifelong journey. Any help is appreciated.
When I try to write Greek, I feel totally lost about the connectives and particles. It seems like many of them can be used in multiple distinct ways, and they can also be combined in various ways. I own a copy of Dickey's composition book, and also the one by Lewis and Styler, but neither of them seems to go into the kind of detail that would be needed to make me feel more competent. I was thinking about just picking a random Greek text and going through it sentence by sentence and making lists of various examples, and sorting them out on index cards or something. I'm sure I would learn a lot from that, but it would be a big, time-consuming project. Is there a book or article that anyone can recommend?
If I want to say that 1+1=2, is it correct to express it like this?
ἓν καὶ ἕν ἐστι δύο.
My reasoning is that neuter forms are used for numbers as abstractions, and plurals of neuters usually take a singular verb. However, I don't know if ἐστι is idiomatic, or if it should be something else like ποιεῖ.
This grammatical rule will make your head spin. I'm not asking a question just pointing something out since I have found that when you tell other people about certain grammatical rule then you'r more likely to remember them. In any case, sometimes the antecedent of a relative clause can have the antecedent in the relative clause. for example, in Menander:
καθ᾿ ὃν δ᾿ ἦν χρόνον ἐγὼ ἐνταῦθα, κατέβαιν᾿ ἀφ᾿ ὑπερῴου τις γυνὴ ἄνωθεν εἰς τοὔμπροσθε τοῦ ταμιειδίου οἴκημα· --
during the time I was there, a certain woman was coming down from the upper story from above into the room in front of the little storeroom; —
if we used English word order the Greek sentence would be:
κατέβαιν᾿ ἀφ᾿ ὑπερῴου τις γυνὴ ἄνωθεν εἰς τοὔμπροσθε τοῦ ταμιειδίου οἴκημα κατα τον χρονον ον ἦν ἐγὼ ἐνταῦθα --
do you see how χρονον is in the relative clause but should be in the main clause? Here is Smyth discussing the rule
