Joon Kim

[Joon Kim]

Hello. I'm an undergraduate student who is majoring in ancient Greek and linguistics. I'm most familiar with the classical dialects as well as Homeric, but I've dabbled a bit in Koine as well.

[cwconrad]

Which "classical dialects" have you found particularly interesting? I've always found the Ionic of Herodotus sort of intriguing with that abundance of etas everywhere and I've had fun with the Aeolic of Sappho and the Sicilian Doric of Theocritus. There was a professor of University of Texas who wrote a beginning textbook for classical Greek that started out with Ionic dialect and gradually worked into Attic the second semester.

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[Jonathan Robie]

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Send me an email with your name (jonathan dot robie at ibiblio dot org), and I'll change your name for you.

[Joon Kim]

Which "classical dialects" have you found particularly interesting? I've always found the Ionic of Herodotus sort of intriguing with that abundance of etas everywhere and I've had fun with the Aeolic of Sappho and the Sicilian Doric of Theocritus. There was a professor of University of Texas who wrote a beginning textbook for classical Greek that started out with Ionic dialect and gradually worked into Attic the second semester.

Attic for Plato, the orators, tragic and lyric poetry, Ionic with Herodotus and Aeolic for Sappho. I've barely had anything to do with Doric. Sappho was actually the reason why I wanted to learn Greek in the first place. After reading Catullus' translation of her poem 51 (I did Latin in high school), I decided right then and there to learn Greek.

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Thanks, I sent an email.

[Jonathan Robie]

I sent an email.

Thanks. You are now "Joon Kim", your password is unchanged.

[Mike Noel]

There are still undergrad degrees majoring in Ancient Greek? I'm pleasantly surprised. I thought they had all gone the way of the dodo bird.

[Joon Kim]

Well I live in Australia, so I don't know how it is in America.