Homeric greek is like ionic greek and unlike classical attic in shifting almost all cases of long ᾱ to η.
Attic greek vs homeric.
Thus homeric τροίη ὥρη πύλῃσι for attic τροίᾱ ὥρᾱ πύλαις πύλαισι troy hour gates dat.
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If you re interested in learning homeric greek here is a link to a free textbook.
There are homer s greek classical greek of the 5th 4th c.
It depends upon your goals in.
Koine hello stephan let me give you a learner s perspective on the differences.
Clyde pharr s homeric greek a book for beginners.
Attic greek in school it is very easy to study koine or read the new testament.
There simply isn t an easy answer to the question which ancient greek dialect to study.
If attic greek is the horse and koine greek is the donkey well septuagint greek is something of a mule.
Many parts of this site will be helpful however to anyone beginning or reviewing.
Actually over time the language simplified as many languages do the the later koine is simpler than earlier attic.
The ancient greek writers in attic greek tended to quote homer and ancient poets.
There is a section in pharr that goes into the transition from homeric to attic greek.
I just finished a class in homeric greek at nyu and i m in the process of doing a complete pharr review on my own.
Being self taught i happened to latch onto a attic greek book a few years ago which has become my primary learning tool for learning greek.
Having studied classical i e.
Based on what i have read so far the transition to attic is relatively easy from homeric greek.
This is based on the following.
In the meantime there were a split the scholars insisted writing in ancient classical greek with varieties of course and the people s language which evoluted through centuries.