is there anybody that could tell me what does it say? is it Χίρα or χειρα or maybe something another because I have absolutely zero knowledge on Greek. I really need to know what's the translation of this word.

Hello! I am a fictional writer and I want to know if it was possible using the word ᾰ̓γᾰθός and it's superlatives as a proper noun in the effect of a title? Something like "ᾰ̓γᾰθός *name*"? Or should a suffix or prefix be added to change(? Asking this very dubiously since I'm not sure if that is even possible) it into a proper noun

I am very sorry for this very amateur question but I do want to learn more if I can beyond just worldbuilding purposes. Thank you.

A while ago I started making Latin and Greek readers for myself in the style of Lingua Latina, mostly so I could read about the Church and the saints while practicing the languages. I decided to publish one of my Greek readers, despite Amazon giving me trouble.

It's Athanasius's Life of Antony, with the harder words explained in Greek in the margin, the way LLPSI does it for Latin. I had created these in a similar format because it had helped me when I was learning Latin and became comfortable with readers in that style.

It's meant for anyone who has worked through a bit of Athenaze or taken a course in Koine. Athanasius writes a plainer, more literary Koine than the Gospels.

There are free sample pages on the site if you want to check the level before picking one up. I'd love to know what you think and what you'd want to read next in this format.

I was looking for some more information on the Homeric word ὄπυιω 'to be married, to take a wife, to have sex' – Beekes doesn't know the ety, probably Pre-Greek ;-), but very interestingly he links it with Etruscan puia 'wife'; the more obscene meaning surfaces in Aristophanes and later Lucian. Nausicaa uses it in the Odyssey so I guess the broader meaning gained traction later ;-) But anyway, what I wanted to share – while searching I stumbled upon this lovely blog, sadly discontinued, written by scholars from University of Manchester, plenty of interesting posts from Greek etymologies of obscenities to archeology and everyday scholarly work:

https://clahresearch.wordpress.com/2014/02/25/obscenity-of-the-month-3-love-and-marriage/

In lesson 4 in an obscure beginners’ textbook I came across the phrase “ἀριστεύει τῇ τέχνῃ”. I guessed it meant something along the lines of “he excels in [his] craft” but reading through the discussion of the dative in Boas et al.’s 2019 Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek (CGCG) I could not comfortably match this particular use of the dative to any of their categories. So naturally I asked ChatGPT, which did not hesitate to conclude that it was a dative of respect, and after some nagging, pointed me to Smyth's Greek Grammar §1516.

James Morwood’s Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek (2001) has a category helpfully labelled “in” under “other uses of the dative”, with a single example that just happens to also be Thucydides 5.43.2 (Smyth’s first example under dative of respect).

Unfortunately “in” did not help me track it down in CGCG either. Can someone point me to where Smyth’s dative of respect falls in CGCG’s analysis?