Greek Idioms and Sappho on CANEPress

Did you ever wonder what that phrase in Greek meant?  Did you have difficulty with some of Sappho’s grammar?  Here are two resources for you and your students.

Idioms is a very short reference work to figure out phrases.  It is alphabetical in Greek, and gives meanings for those phrases.  If you run into a difficulty in translating, this is the place to go!

Introduction to Sappho’s Greek is a lengthier work, dealing with the Aeolic grammar and vocabulary of Sappho.  It was used at Williams college, but I think it is more suitable for the teacher to use as a reference.  Here is the rationale: The grammar is presented in a series of chapters, including detailed notes on an appropriate group of fragments; these notes explain all forms and vocabulary not given in the chapters. The chapter vocabularies include words appearing three or more times in the poems; a general vocabulary at the end serves as an index to these separate vocabularies.

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