This week three objects of study have intrigued me outside
of the classroom regarding Ancient Greek culture (excluding assigned texts and
suggestions).
I found archived recordings of Alan Bloom speaking on the Apology. His interpretations are striking in their keenness (always with an
edge), and their starkness (not insight but crisp clarity). Listening to them
while keeping notes (and attempting to hold fast on a different interpretation
of say, Socrates or Philosophical Tension that differs from his) is an experience.
I had been meaning to look into Anna Carson’s treatment of Greek
works for some time, and at a local library came upon If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho. It is a bit off-topic, but
the book has quite the strange beauty to it and sets original Greek fragments
next to interpretations/notes if you have the opportunity to check it out.
The Greek Bible, as with many historical/theological texts,
has a motivated following online eager to share its contents. Sifting through
these resources, while bumbling about cyberspace for tidbits on Neoplatonism in
the Bible or Pythagorean scholars of the era, I came across this (abandoned?) guide to “real Greek”. Like all of my links this week, the academic reliability
of it as a source is a bit idiosyncratic (Bloom’s forceful structure, Carson’s
poetry, this having no real accountable authority, etc.). Something to cross-reference, at any least, but interesting.
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