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CLYDE PHARR
HOMER AND THE STUDY OF GREEK

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Excerpts from a study contained in Homeric Greek - A Book for Beginners, University of Oklahoma Press 1985. The text contains some words in Greek, download Greek fonts, if you don't have. 

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      When it comes to the actual number of words of Xenophon and Homer which enter into the vocabulary of other Greek writers, the following tables will show their relation to some of the most important authors read in college.

      The following table indicates the authors whose vocabularies have more words in common with Homer than with Xenophon, the figures showing the excess.

 

AUTHOR WORDS   PAGES
Hesiod 904   87
Aeschylus 524   309
Elegiac and Iambic Poets 514   160
Pindar 485   236
Theocritus 466   93
Euripides 428   916
Sophocles 400   365
Bacchylides 347   73
Aristophanes 148   612

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