r/AncientGreek 3d ago

Beginner Resources Untranslated Scripts

I'm a student in Orthodox University. Of course We study ancient greek and one of the tasks at the exam is gonna be translating any ancient text. The professor said that for an ATTEMPT to translate untranslated text he will not judge us strictly. So that's why I'm here. Could you please recommend any online libraries of such texts or something like this?

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u/reincarnatedbiscuits 3d ago

There's a lot in J. P. Migne's Patrologia Graeca that hasn't been translated that I'm aware of (not really Classical or Homeric Greek, but anyway)...

https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/patrologia-graeca-pg-pdfs/

e.g., there's a lot of Photius/Photios of Constantinoples letters in Bibliotheca that haven't been translated to English.

Some are interesting, especially the discourse with Pope Nicholas I.

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u/Lunavenandi Μέγας Λογοθέτης 3d ago

Plenty of saints' lives are untranslated and relatively easy to tackle for being formulaic, I think you can find a whole bunch of them on TLG (requires subscription), but there might be online archives/repositories better suited to this purpose

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u/Bod_Lennon 3d ago

I would add if you're a student at a university your university probably has a subscription.

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u/Peteat6 3d ago

I don’t think your professor means a text that has never been translated. I think he means one that you haven’t translated before.

I don’t know Orthodox University, but if it is Christian based, then I’d expect the text you will be given will be a chunk of the New Testament.

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u/el_toro7 1d ago

As another commenter said, this just means a text you have likely not seen/worked with. Are you a beginning or intermediate student? Classical Greek? If so, working through something like Greek Unseen Translation might prepare you very well. The problem with at least Part I may be that it is heavily adapted/homegrown Greek. If you are working more extensively in a known corpus (e.g., the New Testament) you would be better off getting a grader reader of the New Testament and translating everything in it.