Learn Homeric Greek.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeric_Greek

Am learning the modern, the neo demotiki or how do you say that, domotikos?

Anyhow, it helps me with familiarization with the alphabet.

There are a couple of texts on the net. One is “Homeric Greek: A Book For Beginners” (by Clyde Pharr, ed. 1918) at http://www.textkit.com/learn/ID/165/author_id/81/

By lesson 13, you’re already reading lines 1-5 of the Illiad.

Got to get started, somehow, even in a little way.

46 weeks later, I begin by refreshing my memory of what IS Homeric Greek:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeric_Greek

The Iliad, lines 1-7

Μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος
οὐλομένην, ἣ μυρί᾿ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγε᾿ ἔθηκε,
πολλὰς δ᾿ ἰφθίμους ψυχὰς Ἄϊδι προΐαψεν
ἡρώων, αὐτοὺς δὲ ἑλώρια τεῦχε κύνεσσιν
οἰωνοῖσί τε πᾶσι· Διὸς δ᾿ ἐτελείετο βουλή,
ἐξ οὗ δὴ τὰ πρῶτα διαστήτην ἐρίσαντε
Ἀτρεΐδης τε ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν καὶ δῖος Ἀχιλλεύς.