Re: Beosweyne's log
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2021 8:58 pm
I see, thank you for the summary. I think I shall stick with some of the other resources I have, based on your remarks.
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In Suid-Afrika is daar oor die algemeen twee tipes genesers: die kruiedokters en die waarsêers. Kruiedokters skryf plante voor vir kwale. Waarsêers kommunikeer na bewering met die voorvaders se geeste om probleme en kwale te diagnoseer. In Afrika maak tradisionele genesers staat op tot 4000 plante vir medisyne. ’n Voorbeeld is Pygneum, ’n tradisionele middel wat in Afrika en elders gebruik word om vroeë vorms van kanker te behandel.
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Beosweyne wrote:Ancient Greek
I've crossed an important milestone by reading for the first time a complete work from cover to cover, True Stories (Ἀληθῆ Διηγήματα) by Lucian of Samosata.
My task was greatly simplified thanks to the edition I was using by Prof. Constantine Hadavas, whose linguistic and historical notes take up much more room than Lucian's text itself.
Beosweyne wrote:Ancient Greek
My second text is going to be one that predates Lucian by over 500 years, Xenophon's Anabasis, a first-hand account of a Greek military expedition inside the Persian empire. My edition is the one by Mather & Hewitt containing books 1-4 of the Anabasis. It has 175 pages of Greek text and about as many pages of notes. Even so, the notes are not as comprehensive or generally user-friendly as Hadavas' commentary on Lucian, so I anticipate taking 6 months to read through it at a page per day. I am going to start next week, but before that I will read the 40-page historical introduction.
Beli Tsar wrote:Good luck. I've never (yet) finished the whole of the Anabasis, but Bedwere's recording here https://librivox.org/anabasis-by-xenophon/ is really excellent. There is a text and recording for a simplified Anabasis out there, too, if that's your thing.
And you might find it's possible to move faster than with Lucian - the vocabulary for some sections is quite repetitive ('And then we marched three stages, thirty parasangs to x, an inhabited city, prosperous and large'.
Beosweyne wrote:Ancient Greek
I've crossed an important milestone by reading for the first time a complete work from cover to cover, True Stories (Ἀληθῆ Διηγήματα) by Lucian of Samosata.
My second text is going to be one that predates Lucian by over 500 years, Xenophon's Anabasis, a first-hand account of a Greek military expedition inside the Persian empire. My edition is the one by Mather & Hewitt containing books 1-4 of the Anabasis.