Thrasymachus: A New Greek Course

by C. W. E. Peckett and A. R. Munday

These pages are based on the above course. Tooltips have been added to make reading easier and faster by not having to leave to go to a grammar or dictionary.

The suggested learning practice is to read as much as possible without help. When a word or case is unknown, hover your mouse over that word for its definition and, usually, its part of speech.

The Text of Thrasymachus

One can buy a hard copy of Thrasymachus from most online retailers. PDF copies are freely available. A link to a version on Internet Archive is here.

These pages are being created while I take Antonia Ruppel’s course on Yogic Studies “Greek for Sanskritists” to refresh my waning Greek. I wanted something like this, so I started making it. 

Farthest Completed Page

The farthest page with complete tooltips is “Thrasymachus XVII.” The work of creating new tooltips continues.

Technical Issues

There is a variety of causes that interfere with indexing of Greek diacritics. I’ve used several workarounds to overcome the limitations of the software being used. Sometimes they’re a bit kludgy from the jerry rigging.

On mobile, use the menu to access chapters.

Glossary

A glossary compiled from all of the tooltip added to these pages is available at: https://dirk-johnson.com/thrasymachus-reading-course/thrasymachus-glossary/

Indexing isn’t all that Ζεύς intended, but you can browse it. Please inform me of any errors you find.

How to Read the Tooltips

When you hover over a Greek word (or touch it on mobile), you’ll see a short note with four parts:

1. Morphology — the grammatical form (abbreviated gender, number, case for nouns/adjectives; person, tense, mood, voice for verbs). There are slight differences between the handling of nouns and adjectives. Starting with Chapter VI, only the definite article is given for nouns to indicate gender.
2. Lemma — the dictionary form of the word.
3. Part of speech when it isn’t obvious — adjective, pronoun, adverb, etc. (abbreviated).
4. Gloss — a simple English meaning.
5. Brief notes when deemed helpful and practical.