If you re interested in learning homeric greek here is a link to a free textbook.
Attic greek vs homeric.
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The ancient greek writers in attic greek tended to quote homer and ancient poets.
Thus homeric τροίη ὥρη πύλῃσι for attic τροίᾱ ὥρᾱ πύλαις πύλαισι troy hour gates dat.
Many parts of this site will be helpful however to anyone beginning or reviewing.
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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.
Actually over time the language simplified as many languages do the the later koine is simpler than earlier attic.
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If attic greek is the horse and koine greek is the donkey well septuagint greek is something of a mule.
There simply isn t an easy answer to the question which ancient greek dialect to study.
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.
Clyde pharr s homeric greek a book for beginners.
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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.
Homeric greek is like ionic greek and unlike classical attic in shifting almost all cases of long ᾱ to η.
Attic greek in school it is very easy to study koine or read the new testament.
There is a section in pharr that goes into the transition from homeric to attic greek.
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.
Koine hello stephan let me give you a learner s perspective on the differences.
Having studied classical i e.
Attic and homeric greek vs.