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has any bode read The Iliad by Homer
I know it's very old but I think that ancient Greek literature and their civilization live for ever
any way...
It's the book that the movie Troy was inspired by but the book is way more fascinating
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| Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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I studied it while doing greek in second year  The school has many subjects, why Greek?
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| Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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I wish they taught us Greek in school
I really like to read that book in Greek
I might learn it any way
Is it hard?
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| Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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You mean apart from it being like this:
Ťις ις Γρεεκ
(This is Greek)
The T has a tonos above it to signify the 'th' sound.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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I've read it in the original Ancient Greek format. Cool for its time. Greek is an easy language IMO. Reading Greek maybe hard for some but learning the language is easy. I know both Modern and Ancient Greek.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 4:13 am Post subject: |
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I can write Greek letters, but I can't really string sentences together 
I did Latin for a few years, and I've been doing French for the past 4 years. (In Primary school I did Italian, so I know a bit of the basics). Unfortunetely the only foreign language which I can do reasonably well is French....the others were just compulsory subjects in school for the first 2 years.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 1:08 pm Post subject: |
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I've read Iliad in school even we had to know some parts of this book by hart
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:07 am Post subject: |
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Has anyone read the book "where Troy once Stood" ?
It's a very good but controversal theory about the true location of Troy, which im pretty certain wasn't in Turkey
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ive read that one but it took me ages....i find it boring..but im not sayin that its not worth to read...im not really into mythology stuffs
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| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 5:45 am Post subject: |
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| I've read Iliad and it's really fascinating how Homer think of writing this stuff during those times |
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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Ive read fragments of it in Latin, but thats about it.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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The Iliad was required reading for me in high school. I still have a copy of it. I found it fascinating. Hmmm. I think I'll grab my copy and start reading it again, since I'm not really reading anything at present.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:34 am Post subject: Re:illiad |
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the Illiad was the first book i ever read. i was three yrs old and it was an old penguin translation i found by my parents' bedside. it was love at first sentence! i went on to become a Classics scholar, read it in the original Greek-how lovely!-then got my grad degree in Pyrrhonic Skepticism, then lost it all when i had my first stroke in my late 20s. i'm regaining it gradually but am concentrating on other civilations now-mainly Asian this time, plus my Judaic studies, of course. Hebrew is also a wonderful language!
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