Greek and French files: any questions, please email me, bochan dot c at gmail

Last updated: 4 December 2009.

My latest notes in .pdf for Pharr's Greek composition exercises: NB these don't account for Mycenaean Grk yet, affecting the explanation of eg. the gen pl ending.

An article I wrote on writing iambics.

An article I wrote on learning Pindar's first Olympian.

Here is Iliad A (West's 1998 Teubner text) scanned, with caesura and bucolic diaresis (where occurring) marked.

Here is Iliad B (West's 1998 Teubner text) scanned, with caesura and bucolic diaresis (where occurring) marked, as well as some notes on Greek scansion (comparing scanning Homeric verse and tragic dialogue); these notes includes the prologos to Aeschylus' Agamemnon scanned and annotated. Created 25 Feb 2006.

Here are my work-in-progress notes on tragic Grk iambic composition. They contain lots of things, incl. my answers to the first exercises of Sidgwick's and Kynaston's Greek Verse Comp exercise books (along with my full annotations on how I put these together: more important than the actual answers I think), as well as summaries of various books on composition and verse localisation &c, a scanned and annotated Aeschylus Agamemnon (iambic lines) which I've started now that I own Fraenkel (46 pounds delivery to Aust.) and my work-in-progress iambic summary of Aristotle's poetics, a section-finder for future reference. Last updated: 30 June 2006.

Here are my work-in-progress notes on composing Sapphics in Aeolic Greek. I've created a consolidated grammar for Sappho, covering spelling, syntax, euphony, scansion and word placement. I've prepared my own localisation data for Sappho's first book and found out a few interesting things, described in the doc. Given that Aphrodite is the key goddess in Sappho, I've summarised authorities on Grk religion generally and Aphrodite in particular. I've also prepared an annotated glossary (with annotations from the Sappho commentators), and finally put in some Sapphic compositions I put together using my notes, and have annotated these for composition purposes. Last updated: 26 July 2006.

Here is an e.g. of my Grk handwriting. I write cursive, and now write lunates (I used to write medial and finals before studying papyri, as you can see in my old notes to the right). Last updated: 4 October 2006.

Here are my old Iliad A notes, with comments from many places drawn together, and I have parsed some scholia from the 3 great Alexandrians (Zenodotus, Aristophanes and Aristarchus). Last updated: 27 December 2006.