Hey everybody, Pastor Steven Anderson here from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe,
Arizona.
I've got Anselm here with me, and we're working on Lesson 5 from the book Homeric Greek for
Beginners by Clyde Farr, and just a quick explanation about what we're doing in these
lessons.
Basically, you need to study the vocabulary on your own at home, and once you've memorized
all the vocabulary for the lesson, then we're going to explain all the grammar in the lesson,
and most importantly, we're going to go through all the exercises, because there's no answer
key in the book, so we're going to go through and work through the exercises, so that way
you can compare your work at home with what we do on the exercises.
So this chapter is starting us out with conjugating our first verbs in Greek.
This is just the most basic conjugation of the verb, the present indicative active of
just normal verbs that end in the omega in the first person singular.
So in Greek, when you look up words in the dictionary, they're listed under this form
right here, the first person singular, whereas like in Spanish, when you look up verbs, it's
the infinitive that you would find, like hablar, comer, vivir, things like that.
Here you would look up the first person singular.
So this particular verb is the one that everybody loves to use to demonstrate how this works,
and it basically means I free, or I release, or I let go, or something like that.
So basically, the way this chart works is that we have our singulars here, and we have
our plurals here, as labeled here, and then we have first person, second person, and third
person.
So first person is myself, second person is who I'm talking to, and then third person
is someone else altogether.
So basically, this right here would mean I free.
This would be, because it's singular, first person, I.
First person plural would be we free.
And then this would be you free, singular, you plural, free, or release.
And then number three would be he frees, or it could mean she frees, or it releases,
they release.
Third person plural would be they.
Now here's the thing.
In English, every sentence has to have a subject and a verb, whereas in Greek, you don't necessarily
have to have a subject.
You don't have to say I release, because just the word for release itself already has the
I built in, because if it ends in an omega, then you know, okay, Leo means I release.
Lees means you release.
Liye, he, she, or it releases.
So they could have a subject or they could not have a subject.
So if we just have by itself, liye, it can either mean he releases, she releases, it
releases, but you could also say, you know, anselm liye, and then it means like anselm
releases.
Does that make sense?
So that's how this chart breaks down right here.
So we have Leo, lees, liye, leomen, leite, and leusi.
Of course, we're using modern Greek pronunciation.
Then we have the dual form.
Now for the present active indicative, there's only one dual form, okay?
And it works for the second person or the third person.
So it's not going to be first person, not like two of us.
So this leotone can mean one of two things.
It can either mean you two release or they two release.
Does that make sense?
Yeah.
And if you remember, we're not really emphasizing the dual forms too much.
If you're a more advanced student, then definitely you'll want to learn the dual forms because
you're going to run into them when you read Homer.
But they're not found in classical Greek.
They're not found in New Testament Greek.
It's only in the old Homeric stuff that you're going to run into this dual form, and it doesn't
appear in the exercises.
But good to know that that's what that is.
So let's get a little practice real quick.
So we understand what this chart means.
Just like in Spanish, by the way, and by the way, these endings are pretty similar to Spanish
because if we think about the Spanish verb, I eat, como, it ends in an O in the first
person como, I eat comase, comae, comemos, omenemos.
So you can see a lot of connection.
So if you know Spanish, you have a great advantage for learning Greek.
So that's that right there.
So let's get a little practice.
I've listed a whole bunch of other verbs here that we're going to be using in the first
part of the Iliad.
So let's just practice just verbally conjugating these.
So go ahead and read that word for me right there.
So Aido means I sing.
Okay.
So what if I wanted to say, you singular saying, right?
He sings right?
We sing you y'all saying, right?
And then they sing.
Okay.
So here's how accent.
I know you kind of burned out on accents after lesson four.
That was pretty brutal.
So we're not going to talk too much about accents.
We already did all that in lesson four, but here's how accents work on verbs.
Remember how we said on nouns and adjectives that the accents are persistent.
They want to stay on the syllable where they started.
Well, on verbs, it's different.
Typically with verbs, the accent wants to just go as close to the beginning of the word
as it can.
So it wants to recede to the front of the word as far as it can, as far as the rules
will allow.
Okay.
Now in this particular case, the rules allow it to be on the first syllable.
So that's where it always is.
Some of these, it's not going to be the case because for example, Aido, this is a long,
so this is as close to the front as it could be.
It can only be on the second to last because this is a long vowel.
Same thing with Andano, right?
Here the second to last is the first.
But anyway, it ends up being in the same spot on most of these present tense verbs, which
makes it pretty nice.
It usually comes like right on the last syllable of the stem because you basically have the
stem li and then you have endings, o, is, i, omen, ete, usi.
The accent in this present active indicative ends up coming like on the last syllable of
the stem, Aido, Andano, atimazo, and so forth.
Okay.
And what do we mean by present active indicative?
We don't really need to worry too much about that.
For now, just think of it as this is your basic present tense verb.
Okay.
We'll get more into like what active and indicative means when we actually start dealing with,
you know, the opposite of those things.
So anyway, so we got Aido, which means I sing, then we've got Andano.
Andano means like I please or I delight.
So just cranking through these forms, it would be Andano, Andanis, Andani, Andanomen, Andanete,
Andanousi.
Those are the forms we're going to see, right?
Okay.
You want to just crank through the forms on this one?
Atimazo, atimazis, atimazi, atimazomen, atimazete, atimazousi.
Exactly.
Veno, venis, veni, venomen, venete, venousi.
All right.
And then ejo means, oh, by the way, atimazo means I dishonor, veno means I go or I come,
and then ejo means I have.
You want to crank through this one?
Ejo, echis, echim, echomen, echite, echousi.
Echousi.
Yep.
And then we've got keo, which means I burn.
Okay.
You want to go through that one?
Keo, keis, kei, keomen, keite, keousi.
And then oleko is I kill or I destroy, oleko, olekis, oleki, olekomen, olekite, olekousi.
Pempo means I send or it could also mean like I conduct or I escort.
You want to go through that one?
Pembo, pembis, pembi, pembomen, pembete, pembousi.
All right.
Very good.
So yeah.
So basically, the pronunciation on this one with the modern pronunciation, the MP actually
can either make a MB sound.
I said pempo, but really it's like you said, pembo is better.
But basically, sometimes they just do it as just a B too, just pevo.
So anyway, that's out there.
All right.
With the modern pronunciation.
Okay.
And then teleo means I finish or I bring to an end or it can mean like I fulfill or I
accomplish.
So this would be teleo, teleis, telei, teleomen, teleite, teleousi.
And then lastly, tefho.
Tefho is like I do or I make or I perform.
So you want to do that one?
Tefro, tefris, tefri, tefromen, tefreta, tefrosi.
So that's it.
I mean, this honestly, I think lesson five is a pretty easy lesson.
Pretty basic, especially if you know Spanish, piece of cake.
So let's get to the exercises.
All right.
So here we've got our exercises from Greek into English.
All right.
So the first one here, idomen volas theaun polaun.
What does that mean?
It means we sing the councils of many goddesses.
Yep.
We sing the plans or the councils of many goddesses.
Okay.
Number two, clangi, dini, kakistelasis, uchandani, psihitheas.
So the terrible sound of the bad sea doesn't please the soul of the goddesses.
Not goddesses.
Of the goddess.
Yep.
It's singular.
Exactly.
The S on the end can kind of fool you, but remember the other word that you might confuse
it with is theos with the accent like that, which would be plural accusative.
This on the other hand is singular genitive.
So the soul of, it isn't pleasing to the soul of the goddess, right?
The terrible uproar of the evil sea or whatever.
Right.
Okay.
So number three, tis atimasi kalas theos.
Who dishonors the good kalas theos, the good goddess?
Yeah.
Well, because I wrote it on the board, but really I could see the difference.
This is that accusative plural.
The good goddesses.
So this is plural and that's accusative plural, right?
So it's who dishonors the beautiful goddesses, right?
Tis atimasi kalas theos.
And then remember, there's no an and the in Homer, so we can supply those whenever
we want.
So, okay.
So number four, uk atimazomen patrin filigarestin.
We don't dishonor our fatherland, our homeland, because it is dear.
Because it is dear or beloved.
Now I will say this.
So in this book, they teach us that the meaning of this word is like dear or beloved or lovely.
And that is what it's going to mean in book one of the Iliad.
But just to make you aware of it, that in other ancient literature in the Homeric style,
like for example, the Homeric hymns, you're going to see that this word often does not
just mean dear or beloved or lovely, but that often it just means one's own.
It can just mean your own.
Like because otherwise you'd be reading along in the Homeric hymns or something and it would
say like she did something with her dear hands, but it really means like she did it with her
own hands.
You understand what I mean?
So you could also translate this if you were reading Homeric stuff, it could be translated
as like, you know, we don't dishonor the fatherland because it is our own.
But in anyway, in this book, we're learning it as like beloved, lovely, dear, because
that's what we're going to run into in book one of the Iliad.
But I'm just making you aware that it can also just mean your own.
So it's just another definition of that word in Homeric Greek.
All right, so number five.
So they go out of Scylla into Chryse.
Yep, exactly.
And then number six.
They burn many fires in Chryse at the sea.
Yep.
In Chryse by the sea.
Yep.
Very good.
We have many and good plans.
Okay, so I want to say one thing about this here.
Literally it's we have many and good plans.
Okay.
But there's a phenomenon that's going to happen a lot in ancient Greek.
And here's the fancy word for it.
It's called hendiadis.
Okay.
Which basically is from Greek because hen means one.
It's like one by means of two.
So that's what hendiadis is.
One by means of two.
And what that basically means is that when it says here, we have many and good plans.
What it really means is we have many good plans.
So you wouldn't really end up translating the and here.
You'd say we have many good plans.
So the way you did it was what it literally says, but that's what it means is just we
have many good plans.
So number eight, keete, piras, and patri, and it's a question.
Do you burn fires in the fatherland?
Yep, exactly.
And then for number nine, they just gave us like a list of words here.
So you want to just translate these?
So you lose or set free, we free, they free, you free.
Yeah, exactly, sis.
You release, we release, they release, y'all release.
And then number 10, olecomen, psichas, polas, kekakas, and patrifili.
And remember this right here, this polas kekakas is going to be another example of hendiadis.
So make sure that you translate it that way.
We kill many bad souls in the beloved film net.
Exactly right.
And then number 11, tis pebi theas es chrisin.
I know it's a question, so tis pebi theas es chrisin.
Who sends the goddesses into Chryse?
Yes, because this right here, this es is the same thing as is.
This is in Homeric, it's usually es.
It can go either way, actually.
So you'll see both of these.
So it could either be who sends the goddesses to Chryse, or it could be who escorts or conducts
the goddesses to Chryse.
Now I ran out of room on the board.
So let's just do the last couple just verbally.
Okay.
So I'm just going to read them off to you and we can just do these orally.
So let's see.
Number 12, teliete voulas kalas patrifili.
I'll show it to you so you can see it teliete voulas kalas patrifili.
What's that mean?
You accomplish the good plans.
I mean, it's dative, patrifili.
So it's dative.
So what it could be is two or four.
So it could be like for the beloved fatherland.
So this would be like what's called the dative of advantage.
So for the advantage of the fatherland in that sense.
Right.
So you accomplish good plans for the sake of the fatherland.
That'd be like a dative of advantage.
That's one way that you could translate that.
And then 13.
It could also be like locative, like in the beloved following.
But then, you know, you'd kind of expect n, but not necessarily so.
Okay.
So 13, we've got telioman voulin felis theas.
We accomplish the plan of the beloved goddess.
Yep.
You got it.
And then number 14, tefchoman pyrin.
We make fires.
We make fire.
All right.
And then number 15, tiferete, tifereusin.
What do you bring?
What do they bring?
Exactly.
All right.
So now let's go ahead and do the English into Greek exercises.
All right.
So now we're going to be translating English into Homeric Greek.
Now there's no answer key and we're doing these on the fly.
So bear with us.
We're going to kind of check each other out here.
And also just if you're at home and we make any mistakes, just let us know in the comments.
All right.
So let's do this.
So number one, you're going to do, who is singing the evil plans of the fair goddesses?
So just start out with like, who is singing the evil plans?
And then I'm going to do number two, the roar of the sea is pleasing to the soul of the
goddess in Scylla.
All right.
So let's work on this here.
And just let me know if I need to reread your sentence to you.
That's a lot to remember.
So let's see.
So you're doing, who is singing the evil plans of the fair goddesses?
It's a question.
The roar of the sea.
Okay.
The roar of the sea is pleasing to the soul of the goddess.
The roar of the sea is pleasing on the honey to the soul of the goddess in Scylla.
All right, sorry.
There's more to that, I think.
Who let's see, cause it's, who is singing the evil plans of the fair goddess?
Oh, you did everything.
Okay.
Well, we'll, we'll go over your answer later.
Let's just write them all out right now.
Okay.
So you're going to do number three now actually.
And then I'll do number four.
So we'll go over, there's, there's a few things, but we'll go over it in a minute.
All right.
So number four, let me give you number three.
Number three, we do not dishonor the goddesses of our dear fatherland.
We do not dishonor the goddesses of our dear fatherland.
And then I'm doing, are you going from Chrysa to Scylla by sea?
I'm going to go plural.
Are you going, are you going from Scylla?
So that's we don't dishonor.
Okay.
So it's, it's, we don't dishonor the goddesses of our dear fatherland and you don't have
to do the hour.
So it's just, we don't dishonor the goddesses of the dear fatherland.
Okay.
And then what was I doing again?
Are you going from Chrysa to Scylla?
Are you going from Chrysa to Scylla by the sea, meaning that Scylla is by the sea, whoops.
So yours again was, we do not dishonor the goddesses of our dear fatherland.
Are you going from Chrysa to Scylla by the sea?
Tell me when you're ready for number five.
Okay.
Number five, the goddesses come from the sea into Scylla.
The goddesses come from the sea into Scylla.
And then I'm doing number six.
They're burning funeral pyres in the fatherland.
Okay.
So number five was the goddesses come from the sea into Scylla.
Okay, I got this dumb, we loosen, you loosen, he loosens.
All right.
So you're doing what?
Number seven, they have many fair plans.
They have many fair plans.
And then I'm going to do over here, number 10, which is we escort the goddesses into
the dear fatherland.
And then number 12, he is making a funeral pyre.
Okay.
You ready?
Number nine, the goddess destroys many wicked souls.
All right.
And then I'll do number 13.
What does he bring?
Okay.
So number nine is the goddess destroys many wicked souls.
And then I'm just going to squeeze under you and do number 11, if you don't mind, hope
I'm not in your way.
All right, there we go.
So number 11, they accomplish the will of their native land.
Okay, number nine is the one you're working on.
The goddess destroys many wicked souls.
Many souls, this needs to be accusative plural.
Yep, so you want to throw an alpha in there?
Okay let's just start at the top and work through these.
Okay so now we're going to go over what we just did here.
Okay so let me get on the right page here.
Okay number one, so we said who is singing the evil plans of the fair goddesses?
So who is singing, Ti Saevi, that's right.
Okay the evil plans of the fair goddesses.
So we're in Homeric Greek, so you're thinking like classical Greek or biblical Greek where
you have the word the, remember we don't use the, there's no the in Homeric Greek so it's
just theaon and then this should be also kalaon because you're again, you're in biblical Greek
mode.
So yeah, here let me just erase that for you.
So yeah, you got to get it Homeric mode here.
Let's work on these omegas man, these omegas I want to see more than just a little dip,
that little dent, come on, there we go, all right.
Okay so number two was the roar of the sea is pleasing to the soul of the goddess in
Scylla.
So the roar of the sea, clangi thalassis, andani is pleasing, sehi to the soul, theas
of the goddess, enchili.
Everything look okay?
All right number three.
Oh but you forgot the accents.
Very good.
Okay, I think I forgot the breathing mark here on it, andani, and then yep breathing
mark right there.
Okay so yeah I did forget some accents, andani, sehi, theas, enchili, okay?
So number three.
We do not dishonor the goddesses of the dear fatherland.
So ooh atimazomen, we do not dishonor, theas, the goddesses, and then again here you got
to get out of this, you don't use the word the in Homeric Greek.
So basically it's just like that of the dear fatherland right?
Yeah okay but this, the accent, it always persists with the word philos, or phili, yeah
that's where it goes.
So ooh atimazomen, theas.
So should that be ook instead of ook?
What do you think?
Yes it should because the ook with the ghi is for rough breathing, and atimazomen is
a smooth breathing.
So it should be just a kappa, yep.
Okay got it?
Looks good.
All right so let's go to number four.
Are you going from chrysa to silla by the sea?
Meaning like silla by the seaside.
So are you going venete from chrysi, ek chrysis, es kelin, right?
To silla, epi elasi, by the seaside dative question mark.
Any problems?
No.
All right number five.
The goddesses come from the sea into silla.
So thea, let's get an accent on that, okay, thea venusin, right, so the goddesses come
or go, ek thalasis, so from the sea, let's get rid of that accent above the eta, right?
Yeah thea right there.
Oh here you go.
Okay and then the accent on this place, silla, persists on the first syllable.
So is it going to be a circumflex or an acute?
This is long.
Yeah.
So that's ...
An acute.
An acute, exactly.
Okay.
That's ...
Looks good, right?
Is that the right case though?
No that's the wrong case because it's es takes accusative.
So what do we need to do?
Es kelin.
Yeah there you go, es kelin, very good.
So thea venusin, ek thalasis, es kelin.
Because remember with our cases, when we're coming from somewhere, it's typically in the
genitive, when you're going towards somewhere, it's typically accusative, and if you're already
at it, like at the seaside, ek thalasis, then it's dative, okay?
So that one's good.
Number six, they are burning funeral pyres in the fatherland.
So keusi, piras, and patri, everything okay?
Mm-hmm.
All right, number seven, they have many fair plans.
So ekhusi, so let's get an accent after that breathing mark, yep, ekhusi polas ke khalas.
Look at that hendiadis in action.
You got it.
Vulas, except this should not be grave, this should be acute because it's the end of the
sentence.
Oh yeah, yeah.
It doesn't have anything following it.
Ke khalas vulas, right?
So they have many good plans, is that what it was supposed to say?
Yep, many fair plans.
All right, and then I had this dumb one for number eight, we loosen, you loosen, and he
is loosening.
Ba ba, everything okay?
All right, number nine, the goddess destroys many wicked souls.
So thea, oleki, the goddess destroys, polas, and it was many wicked souls.
So we could have said, psychas polas ke khalas, using the hendiadis, right?
So we could say ke khalas.
Polas psychas ke khalas?
I mean the word order is all over the place, but I mean really the best thing would be
to just do psychas polas ke khalas.
But honestly, when you actually start reading Homer, the word order is just everywhere.
I mean because the case endings tell you what things are doing in the sentence, the word
order is just up for grabs.
When we actually start reading the text, there's going to be some really wild word order, unfortunately.
Okay, so number 10 is we escort the goddesses into the deer fatherland.
So pebblemen theas es fylin patrin.
Everything okay?
Yes.
Yeah.
All right, cool.
And then number 11 is they accomplish the will of the fatherland or of their native
land.
So, teliusi vulin patris.
It's a lot longer in English, huh?
They accomplish the will of their native land.
It's just teliusi vulin patris.
That's it, right?
All right.
And then number 12, he's making a funeral pyre tefhi pirin.
And then lastly, what does he bring?
Tea fairy.
Yep.
That's easy.
Tea fairy.
That should be a grave, yep.
All right, coolness.
That's it.
You know what, though?
For some reason, though, they don't use a grave on these.
I don't know why.
I think on these question words, because I was looking at this example and they don't
actually, for some reason, because in the example, there was a question tea fairy te
and it didn't use it.
I think, actually, with these question words, they don't end up getting a grave for some
reason.
So, we're just going to leave it as cute.
All right, so that's it for lesson five and we'll see you in lesson six.