Ammon U: Basic Training - Ancient Greek Lesson 2

Study

• Hardy Hansen - Greek: An Intensive Course, 2nd Revised Edition

Sources Mentioned

• Thesaurus lingua gracae - https://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu/  - large collection of greek texts
• Nestle’s Greek New Testament (1904) on BibleHub.  GitHub
• Henry Barclay Swete's 1930 The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint, also on Biblehub.  GitHub
• Epiphanius - Panarion - Against Gnostics, or Borborites
  • Epiphanius Ἐπιφάνιος
  • Panarion - Πανάριον
  • Against Gnostics, or Borborites - Κατὰ Γνωστικῶν τῶν καὶ Βορβοριτῶν
  • Paragraph 8.

Mentions

• Ancient Hebrew a lie, language of fabrication.
  • Ancient Hebrew had 8198 words, 2099 roots Hapax legomena.  According to Ghil’ad Zuckerman
  • In the Thesaurus lingua gracae 4000 plus authors, 110M words in this.   Ancient Greek had 110M.  unique word forms is 1.6M and number of Unique lemmata is 250000.
• Written on the Temple of Apollo - “know yourself”.  Gnosis. 
• The maddening goddess is Aphrodite
• 8 year old Medusae- cuts in arms, bandages with drugs from snakes.   They “Take up snakes”, raise them in the air.

Terms

• Hapax Legomena - a term of which only one instance of use is recorded.
• Historia (ἱστορία): Inquiry. Systematic or scientific observation. Knowledge obtained or information.
• Historeou (ἱστορέω): To ask the oracle; to inquire of a higher source for wisdom or knowledge.
• Oistros (οἶστρος): Estrogen; to sting, to go mad, to rage, frenzy, sexual frenzy, be stung by the gadfly. A driving force or madness, often related to lust or inspiration.
• Oistramania (οἶστρομανία): Mania from the gadfly sting; a frenzied or inspired state caused by external forces, often associated with divine madness.
• Oistretheis (οἶστροθεῖς): Stung to madness by Dionysus; driven into madness or ecstatic frenzy by the influence of Dionysus.
• Chriou (χρίω): chrio or christ. Touch the surface of the body, rub, anoint with scented unguents (pharmaka), oil, application, rub or infection with poison, clothing impregnated with poisons.   chrio.  The bite of the Christ.  You put it in your eye.  Christ is a title, not a last name; refers to the act of anointing, healing, or transforming through divine means.
• Annunaki (Ανουνάκι): People who had great knowledge of medicine (often associated with ancient Mesopotamian deities or beings with vast wisdom in certain mythologies).
• Frenon (φρένων): The mind or brain. engaging your fren (brain).   The term is used in reference to mental faculties.  (corpus hermetica)
• Eros (ἔρως): Erotic love or lust, often symbolizing passionate desire and physical attraction.
• Aoua (Ἄὠα): Eve, woman associated with ecstatic life and knowledge.  Like Sophia, Medea, others.
• Planeia (πλάνεια): Wandering. Planets are "wanderers" in the sky, in ancient cosmology.
• Oistro Planeia (οἶστρο πλάνεια): Wandering madness; a state of erratic or frenzied wandering, either physically or mentally.
• Ostres Planetai (ὀστρη πλανηταί): (no definition provided)
• Medusae (Μέδουσα): Priestesses of Medea, who put snake venom in their hair, drag an arrow tip through the venom, and shoot people to freeze them. Not to be confused with Medusa, the later figure of Greek mythology, but rather a character from earlier mythos with magical, poisonous powers.
• Miainousin (μιαίνωσιν): Staining oneself, entering into blasphemy.  Jude 1:7 and 1:8 
• Ikporneuou (ἐκπορνεύω): To commit fornication.
• Lestes (ληστής): traffickers, Julius ceaser was kidnapped by them, and when he came back he crucified them, because that’s what you do to traffickers. Lestei get crucified.  
• Daimonia (δαίμονια): Demons.  taking up serpents, lifting up serpents. 
• Anthropos (ἄνθρωπος): Human Beings

Epiphanius - Panarion

Mary and Jesus up to the mountain, drinking semen, Bacchic mystery.  Takes her from his rib (from his side, not literal rib), forced to be the receptacle of the hyma from Jesus.  Makes sense why they called her a prostitute.  As a part of salvation.   (Epiphanius is criticising heretic sects, in this case the gnostics).

• Epiphanius Ἐπιφάνιος
• Panarion - Πανάριον
• Against Gnostics, or Borborites - Κατὰ Γνωστικῶν τῶν καὶ Βορβοριτῶν

• Μαρίας (María) - Mary. This name is common in Christian texts, and in this context, it refers to Mary of Magdala or another biblical Mary figure.
• Ἰαλδαβαώθ (Ialdabaōth) - A name associated with a deity in Gnostic traditions, often regarded as a false god or a creator figure in texts like this one.
• Σὴθ (Sēth) - Seth, referring to the biblical figure or Gnostic interpretation of Seth, often associated with knowledge or a salvific line.
• Αποκαλύψεις (apokalypsis) - Revelations, disclosures. This noun comes from ἀποκαλύπτω (apokalyptō), meaning "to reveal" or "to uncover."
• Κύριος (kúrios) - Lord, master. A title often used for Jesus Christ, signifying divinity and authority.
• Αἰσχρουργία (aischrourgía) - Disgrace, shameful act. Derived from αἰσχρός (aischrós), meaning "shameful" or "dishonorable."
• Ἀπόρροια (áporrhoia) - Discharge, flow. The term comes from ἀπόρροος (áporroos), meaning "flowing away" or "discharging."
• πληρώματι (plērómati) - Fullness, completion. From πλήρωμα (plēróma), meaning "fulfillment" or "fullness" in a spiritual or cosmic sense.
• Διεξόδους (diexódous) - Exits, outlets. Derived from διέξοδος (diéxodos), meaning "a way out" or "an exit."
• Ἡδονῆς (hēdonēs) - Pleasure. Derived from ἡδονή (hēdonē), meaning "pleasure" or "delight."
• Πλευρᾶς (pleurās) - Side, rib. This word comes from πλευρά (pleurá), meaning "side" or "rib," often used metaphorically in biblical and mythological contexts.