Homeric Greek

Don't you want to read about "rosy-fingered dawn" and the "wine-dark sea" with confidence that you're hearing Homer's Greek as godlike Achilles might have recounted it -- if he stopped his heroics long enough to tell the story he was living? Professor Pharr is a worthy guide to the Greek spoken long before Classical Athens. the Byzantine Anabasis. biblical Koine, or modern long e's everywhere took their place.