From Troy to Ithaca: The Odyssey in Greek Prose for Advanced Beginners

Ulysses and the Sirens by John William Waterhouse (1891): Odysseus bound to the mast of his ship while winged sirens circle the crew

John William Waterhouse, “Ulysses and the Sirens” (1891), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Public domain.

This fall I’m teaching a course at Institutum Antiquitatis on Neophytos Doukas’s prose paraphrase of the Odyssey.

Doukas, a scholar of the Greek Enlightenment, rewrote the epic in Koine prose. That removes the two obstacles that usually keep Homer for late in a learner’s path, the Epic dialect and the meter, and leaves a text an advanced beginner reader can follow. We read and discuss the paraphrase in Ancient Greek.

Details and enrollment are on the course page. If you’d rather work one-on-one through private lessons, please reach out. And if you’re new to the language, my guide on how to learn Ancient Greek covers how to get started.

From Troy to Ithaca: The Odyssey in Greek Prose for Advanced Beginners

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