Thus homeric τροίη ὥρη πύλῃσι for attic τροίᾱ ὥρᾱ πύλαις πύλαισι troy hour gates dat.
Attic greek vs homeric.
Attic greek is the greek dialect of the ancient city state of athens of the ancient dialects it is the most similar to later greek and is the standard form of the language that is studied in ancient greek language courses attic greek is sometimes included in the ionic dialect together attic and ionic are the primary influences on modern greek.
Bc greek koene of the period of jesus and later on byzantine greek and finally modern greek demotiki.
I just finished a class in homeric greek at nyu and i m in the process of doing a complete pharr review on my own.
I am thoroughly enjoying it.
Having studied classical i e.
Attic and homeric greek vs.
If attic greek is the horse and koine greek is the donkey well septuagint greek is something of a mule.
It depends upon your goals in.
Actually over time the language simplified as many languages do the the later koine is simpler than earlier attic.
Koine hello stephan let me give you a learner s perspective on the differences.
In the meantime there were a split the scholars insisted writing in ancient classical greek with varieties of course and the people s language which evoluted through centuries.
There simply isn t an easy answer to the question which ancient greek dialect to study.
Attic greek in school it is very easy to study koine or read the new testament.
The ancient greek writers in attic greek tended to quote homer and ancient poets.
Clyde pharr s homeric greek a book for beginners.
Buy the book or request an exam copy.
There are homer s greek classical greek of the 5th 4th c.
Many parts of this site will be helpful however to anyone beginning or reviewing.
This is based on the following.
If you re interested in learning homeric greek here is a link to a free textbook.
Being self taught i happened to latch onto a attic greek book a few years ago which has become my primary learning tool for learning greek.