Theo Nash
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Classicist. PhD student IPCAA, MA and BA Victoria University of Wellington. 🇨🇦🇳🇿
Ann Arbor, MI
Joined February 2017
This was a lot of fun to put together: do have a read!.
Why do we study Ancient Greece? To expand our shared knowledge of the past or for personal enrichment? Is research a primary or secondary aim? Today, @theo_nash of @UMich revisits 1930s Oxford to see how rival views of scholarship were keenly thrashed out:
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RT @PhiloCrocodile: My Greek course would begin with some of the PY tabs and end with apologising to a police officer in Chania for stealin….
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Many people who work on the NT learn Greek from dedicated ‘Koine’ textbooks and read nothing non-Biblical. This is not how languages work and limits all attempts at understanding and interpretation.
If the New Testament was written in Ancient (Koine) Greek, was composed under the Roman Empire, and was both written and read by Roman subjects, should it form part of the discipline of Classics? If yes, why? If not, why not?
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RT @AntigoneJournal: The astounding story of how that most fascinating of scripts, Linear B, was painstakingly decoded in the mid-20th cent….
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THEODORE NASH A heroic tale of decipherment
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RT @nchlsswft: "Drinking to get drunk is appropriate only at the festivals of the god who gifted wine" (Plato Laws 775b), a handy example o….
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Finally planned to visit properly the Byzantine Museum in Thessaloniki — the best of its kind in Greece — and over half the galleries were closed. Very disappointing.
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Roman sculpture people — does anything about this look remotely plausible?
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Flowers of Humphrey Payne’s grave at Mycenae. Ahh sun-flower, weary of time.Who countest the steps of the sun.Seeking after that far golden clime.Where the traveller’s journey is done
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(Amusingly they put a Linear A tablet on the cover. I’ll let it slide.).
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Enchanted by Alexandra, the Little Mycenaean. More children’s books with Linear B, please!
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These Green and Yellows are getting stranger and stranger.
Outdated in ways but still a great desk tool for Classics students because it's heavy on Greek and Latin. Lyons wrote his diss under W. Sidney Allen at Cambridge: "A structural theory of semantics and its application to some lexical subsystems in the vocabulary of Plato" (1960).
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RT @ReijoPitkaranta: Praesidens Trump plura arma Ucrainae promisit. Qui nuntius praeter opinionem venit, quod septimana ante minitatus erat….
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A good argument for not learning ‘Biblical’ Greek in isolation.
In the Greek New Testament there are 138,150 total words (token) and 5,420 distinct words (type). Of the 5,420 words, nearly 2,000 of them appear only once, making up more than a third of those words.
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