Looking for an online version of Prokopios' "Secret History" in Greek
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1Feicht
I checked Tufts' "Perseus Project" website (they seem to have everything else) but all I can find online are outdated turn of the (last) century translations to English that use words like "hoodwinked" :-P
Anybody know if there's a version out there somewhere in Ancient (well, early Medieval, I guess) Greek?
Anybody know if there's a version out there somewhere in Ancient (well, early Medieval, I guess) Greek?
2E59F
I don't know an online html-formatted text, but here are a couple of downloadable PDF options. It's in ancient Greek, of course. It's only after you get into the Byzantine period that you start getting bits of medieval Greek showing up in the literature.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-yEAAAAAYAAJ
http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/04z/z_0490-0575__Procopius_Caesariensis__H...
{LT insists on munging the second link, but if you copy the part in black and paste it into the URL it will work}
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-yEAAAAAYAAJ
http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/04z/z_0490-0575__Procopius_Caesariensis__H...
{LT insists on munging the second link, but if you copy the part in black and paste it into the URL it will work}
3Feicht
Ah ok, thanks :-) I don't know enough "about" Greek to know when the "transition" is to medieval. I know that in Latin by the end of the western Empire you start seeing a fair bit of shifting towards the new dialects that would become the different Romance languages, so I wondered if the timeframe wasn't similar for Greek. Also, Prokopios is in the "Medieval Sourcebook" online too :-D
4E59F
The changes in spoken language show up to varying degrees depending on the writer. Procopius was well educated so, like educated western late-ancient authors such as Gregory of Tours, he wrote in the ancient "standard" language, with the changing vernacular not very visible on the surface most of the time.
The seventh century is when traditional education broke down in both West and East, and then the writers began to have more difficulty negotiating the difference between the conventions of the written language versus actual speech. But the result is usually a sort of mix, where the writer is clearly thinking in vernacular but trying to express it in "literary" form. For Greek, you don't really get much in the way of vernacular texts until the eleventh century, I think.
The seventh century is when traditional education broke down in both West and East, and then the writers began to have more difficulty negotiating the difference between the conventions of the written language versus actual speech. But the result is usually a sort of mix, where the writer is clearly thinking in vernacular but trying to express it in "literary" form. For Greek, you don't really get much in the way of vernacular texts until the eleventh century, I think.
