Next semester I have the option of continuing to push forward in Latin by taking two Latin lit. courses and one Greek course, or to work on evening out my Greek and Latin/work towards getting ahead in Greek (since I want to focus on Greek in grad school) by taking only one Latin course alongside my third semester of Attic Greek (in which we'll be reading our first real work of prose) and an undergraduate introduction to Homer.

Would anyone advise for/against beginning real Attic prose and Homer at the same time? Are the dialects different enough that I could keep from being too confused?

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Davidius
Husband of Emilia
Member: First Reformed Presbyterian Church of Durham (RPCNA) - Durham, NC
Currently in the process of transferring membership to an as-yet-undecided church in Chapel Hill
Student: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, German Literature and Classics

I know there are at least a few of you here...

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Davidius
Husband of Emilia
Member: First Reformed Presbyterian Church of Durham (RPCNA) - Durham, NC
Currently in the process of transferring membership to an as-yet-undecided church in Chapel Hill
Student: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, German Literature and Classics

I stank at Greek and was only serviceable in Latin, if you are a glutton for punishment I say proceed.

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Travis Speegle
Redeemer Presbyterian, PCA (Waco, Tx)
Pacific Cross Roads, PCA (Los Angeles, CA)


"When it comes to trustworthy theologians one can usually honor the rule of thumb that the deader the better."-Dr. John Hannah, DTS (of all places)

You can take Homer at the same time as other Greek. I actually took Homer (we read several books of the Odyssey) in my junior year, along with Plato (I think we read a couple of dialogs and a couple books of the Republic) and a class on Roman historians (I think we read Livy, Suetonius and Tacitus)

The dialects are not that different. Prose and poetry and different enough in themselves. Homer is relatively easy Greek (except for some vocab).

The only way you get better is to read, read and read.

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Fredrick T. Greco
Senior Pastor, Christ Church PCA (Katy, TX)
Christ Church Blog

"The heart is the main thing in true religion...It is the hinge and turning-point in the condition of man's soul. If the heart is alive to God and quickened by the Spirit, the man is a living Christian. If the heart is dead and has not the Spirit, the man is dead before God." (J.C. Ryle)