Medieval (Byzantine) Greek Reading Group
(Photograph: Andrew Stephenson)
An informal group that meets on Wednesdays at 5:15 in a friendly and supportive environment to read medieval (Byzantine) Greek texts. Anyone with any knowledge of Greek is welcome. Please contact Roger Scott if you wish to attend, or want to be taken off the mailing list.
Contact
Roger Scott
r.scott@unimelb.edu.au
John Burke
j.burke@unimelb.edu.au
Next Meeting
The next meeting will be via Zoom on Wednesday 9 April, 5.15 -6.30 and thereafter meet weekly. The link will be sent out a few hours before each meeting.
Venue
We meet via Zoom, apart from the final Wednesday of each month when those based in Melbourne aim to dine together cheaply in Lygon Street at 7.15pm.
Text
Resources
Web Sites
Language Aids
- G.W.H. Lampe, A Patristic Greek Lexicon (OUP 1961) - choose the .pdf version (very big: 176Mb pdf)
- Liddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon can be searched on the Thesauras Linguae Graecae website and on the Perseus Digital Library, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, a Greek-English Lexicon web page as well as the Logeion website (look also for the Logeion app in Apple's app store).
- Perseus search tools
- Those with unimelb library access can visit the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae online - where the spelling is Cedrenus
John Burke's current favourite free polytonic unicode Greek font is Gentium.
Some Maps
Interactive map of Constantinople by Emanuel Nicolescu and Linda Safran.
- Time-Life reconstruction: MapTimeLife.jpg (982Kb jpg)
- Gates, roads, districts (2.34Mb jpg)
- Byzantine Constantinople (Hubert for Van Millingen) (MapVanMillingen.png, 255Kb png) - and a few more...
Please note: these documents are for private study only and may not be published.