Koine Greek

[SpawnOfEbil]

Thanks to EB, my interest is piqued. I'm already doing Latin A-level (the joys of reading Livy describing Hannibal's crossing of the Alps) but I hear Greek is much more 'fun' (read: hard).

Thus: is there anywhere online from where I can learn Koine Greek as it was spoken by the Hellenes around this time?

EDIT: Anyone recommend some Latin to read which isn't too hard?

[Bava]

"de viris illustribus" was pretty easy IIRC.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Actually... we don't use Koine Greek in EB; becuase that only came to be very important some centuries well into our time frame. (Like when the Bible was written...)

[madmatg]

when the new testament was written he means, OT was started way before EB timeframe

[Kurulham]

Attic is the win.

Koine is the lose.

That is all.

[Tellos Athenaios]

IIRC the Bible in the sense of "Old T" + "New T" together in ONE edition was written well into our timeframe... And that's what I referred to.

[A Terribly Harmful Name]

Fellow, the guys in EB all speak Attic Greek.

[abou]

Man, how can anyone enjoy reading Livy?

EDIT: Anyone recommend some Latin to read which isn't too hard?

Anyway - as far as relatively easy Latin goes, Caesar is your man. He wrote in a very elegant and austere way. If you want harder stuff, look to Vergilius and Cicero.

[keravnos]

Thanks to EB, my interest is piqued. I'm already doing Latin A-level (the joys of reading Livy describing Hannibal's crossing of the Alps) but I hear Greek is much more 'fun' (read: hard).

Thus: is there anywhere online from where I can learn Koine Greek as it was spoken by the Hellenes around this time?

EDIT: Anyone recommend some Latin to read which isn't too hard?

New testament was written in Koine greek and should be read as such.

The EB voicemod (that you hear) was based on many writers, mainly Xenophon and as such was "voiced" in Attic Greek. In fact one of the many criticism of it is that it sounds "too ancient" for EB timeline. I however reserve the right to have it sound exactly as is until such time as someone presents to me clear and indisputable evidence that language had changed so much till then. My theory copied from uni pro's one is that most changes in Greek language, and the road to Koine was sped up from Romani conquest on.

[Megas Methuselah]

I have a bible written in greek... Each page is half-Greek and the other half is the translation. It's pretty cool...

[keravnos]

It is. It is even more amazing to think that since that time on, the sounds of greek have been the same, meaning that with a basic knowledge of modern greek you can read Koine greek out loud and be sure that the people of that time (last cent BCE, first centure CE and on) would understand you.

And also understand the differences that Koine Greek has with ancient greek, as spoken in Marathon, and well, EB. (so far as we know)