Writing Greek and Latin

LT 06 Class 1: Expressing English abstracts in Greek

After these explanations the reader will be prepared to find little argumentation in these pages, but much analysis, much rather strenuous exercise in changing our ground and a good deal of rather intricate navigation. Navigation, in fact—the art of knowing where we are wherever, as mental travellers, we may go—is the main subject of the book. To discuss poetry and the ways in which it may be approached, appreciated and judged is, of course, its prime purpose. But poetry itself is a mode of communication. What it communicates and how it does so and the worth of what is communicated form the subject-matter of criticism. It follows that criticism itself is very largely, though not wholly, an exercise in navigation. It is all the more surprising then that no treatise on the art and science of intellectual and emotional navigation has yet been written; for logic, which might appear to cover part of this field, in actuality hardly touches it.

I. A. RICHARDS Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgment (1929)

hint: use participles, articular infinitives, relatives, and indirect questions for the abstract nouns in this passage and hold off on abstract nouns in Greek (use Woodhouse for inspiration but be careful to rethink idiomatically)