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I'm reading the book in Carl Wildman's translation and I find the vocabulary sometimes extraneous, so I have to go to the dictionary more often than usually.

Tho not a native English speaker I'm well versed in literary English, so I wonder how's in the original Greek and what people think about this translation.

Also, what are the general opinions about the translation of The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel ?

I used to hear in high school that to a large extent the Hellenic intellectual heritage survived thanks to the preservation of medieval Arab scholars, which translated philosophers like Plato and Aristoteles.

Is that really true, or to what extent can it be accurate? Which significative examples of Greek manuscripts could we cite that were preserved in Arab libraries?

Attention: this question has no intention whatsoever to minimize or downplay the influence of the Arab scholarly tradition.

I'm a great fan of interlinears. For the Old Testament I've used JP Green but the printing quality of modern editions is awful. I wonder if Ricker Berry is better or which others?

I have a decent command of spoken Hebrew and now I'm trying to make it somehow more formal because I'll need to find a job in Israel soon. So I tried to read Oz which is the only modern Israeli writer I know of, starting with stories from תמונות מחיי הכפר.

The result was that he's so rich in vocabulary that it turned out to be really hard to look up word by word in the dictionary and I brought an English translation to compare side by side instead. After checking a bit of the translation the stories are so well written and entertaining that it's hard to put aside the stream and I ended up reading the English only.

I wonder if people more conversant in Hebrew find it the same way and can push the reading smoothly without dictionary,

I just got my copy of Groton's and started to read it but something I don't quite get is her explanation of the pronunciation of diphthongs. E.g.

ευ : "e" like in etch gliding into French "u" [or "you"]

ηυ : "e" like in error gliding into French "u" [or "hey you"]

and some other "glidings" that, maybe because I don't speak French, I can't comprehend what it's meant.