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After having offered courses in Classical or Attic Greek for the past seven years, Wakefield School’s Department of Classical Languages has decided to switch to Homeric Greek, an earlier dialect derived from the works of the poet Homer.
The decision to center all introductory Greek around Homer was based on the desire to facilitate the mastery of the language by simplifying the presentation of grammar and vocabulary so that students may quickly acquire the satisfaction of reading with understanding substantial portions of the Iliad and Odyssey in Greek.
According to Mrs. Kay Larrieu, department head. Homeric Greek is easier as well as more appealing than Attic Greek. Furthermore, she asserts that the Homeric poems have a greater efficacy for bringing home to the growing mind the real nature and vital worth of great literature. Homer’s work is, she says, the basis of all later classical literature and the most universally admired of the world’s poetry. His
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