Thursday, April 19, 2007

I'll discuss Atticism in more detail later (likely in part 4 of my Thorough-going Eclecticism series) but I wanted to mention this now.

Just last night I was reviewing some areas that J.K. Elliott chalks up to atticism and was thinking, "so how do we know what an atticism is?" I mean, my one year of Greek at a formal learning institution was Attic (my autodidact efforts have focused largely on Koine/Hellenistic). I remember the biggies (e.g. Attic ττ shifts to Koine σσ, πραττω to πρασσω) but not much more.

Later in the evening I was reading Caragounis' The Development of Greek and the New Testament (amazon.com). Imagine my surprise when I ran across his section on Atticism, pp. 120-140 where he reproduces lists from Phrynichos (424 words!) and Moiris (less than 50 words) that could be helpful when reviewing variants for possible atticism.

Post Author: rico
Thursday, April 19, 2007 5:03:55 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00) 

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Thursday, April 19, 2007 6:29:08 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Rick,

I've been meaning to say for a long time that your blog feeds my inner Greek and textual criticism geek. Thanks! Keep up the good work!

Chuck
Chuck Grantham
Thursday, April 19, 2007 7:07:16 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Thanks, Chuck!
Saturday, April 21, 2007 7:17:07 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Considering the Byzantine interest in 'pure' style, which we see throughout Photius "Bibliotheca", they must have had manuals of this sort of stuff. Few people probably know that the early humanists found that the emperor and his court still spoke Attic Greek rather than the popular dialect. Of course if they'd spent less time on Atticism and more time on soldiering, we might still be able to read all of Diodorus Siculus, since a complete copy existed in the imperial palace as late as 1453 (I owe these details to Nigel Wilson's books on Byzantium).
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