ποικίλως ¦ ἡ τῶν ἄλλων ἐπιθυμία κατὰ τὸν Ο᾽ καὶ τὸν Ἡσίοδον (Philological pronunciation)

Описание: The reading of those two excepts, arose from a spoken Anc. Greek class. At the beginning of the class, a student asked me about the Old Testament word for "covet," and what better way to find out than to consult the text itself? We discovered it was ἐπιθυμεῖν. We then quickly reviewed the etymology of "covet" because we weren't sure how it might be related to the Greek verb.

The "Etymology Online" dictionary explains it this way: "covet mid-13th century, from O.Fr. coveitier (12th century, Mod.Fr. convoiter) 'covet, desire, lust after,' influenced by con- words), probably ultimately from L. cupiditas 'passionate desire, eagerness, ambition,' from cupidus 'very desirous,' from cupere 'long for, desire' (see CUPIDITY (Cf. cupidity)). Related: Coveted; coveting."

Then we talked about how it's certainly not such a widespread commandment and that it's as important as not stealing or killing, but then I remembered the beloved Hesiod, and I decided that we could also read another facet of the ἀγαθή ἔρις ἥδε, so suddenly the class was happening was radically different from the one I planned, we even managed to read a few comments on Hesiod, obviously in ancient Greek, and that's the beauty of all it: to read as much Anc. Greek as possible fluently and confidently.

I leave here the recording of the text so that my students can listen to it and repeat it, and have audio to study with.