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| Lykeio Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4241 days ago 120 posts - 357 votes  | Message 9 of 17 09 October 2013 at 12:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hi, thanks for this. I agree that a pronunciation debate is obviously unwarranted,
especially because it's never one informed by evidence when it happens online. I feel like I ought to clarify a few things though. Obviously Erasmian doesn't = modern pronunciation, I meant the modern restored classical. They're not at all the same and using Erasmian would be really pointless... As for students learning about that stuff, it depends. Very few students seem to. One of my professors was taught those things, yes, but I have always heard it dogmatically asserted that Greek has never changed, or all changes happened early and magically it hasn't changed since, or, my favourite, modern linguistics is western propaganda. My partner had it likewise. No, there are serious problems with philology as practiced in Greece now and its currently surrounded in pretty serious discussion so brushing aside the difficulties won't help matters. But this is, frankly, a debate for classicists and only classicists really. For those outside academic routes, I'm not particularly fussed what they use, so long as they don't mistake their preference and practice for actual scholarly decisions. That's fine. I'm sure my Plato sounds like a souvlajis anyway. I, personally, move between pronunciation schemes depending on context. As we said, this is moving away from the topic at hand. The additional relevant thing I would say to the OP is to use free resources. As in public domain books available on textkit etc as a supplement, they're not at all bad and many love them. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4355 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 10 of 17 09 October 2013 at 1:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
I am genuinly shoked to hear that.
I won't argue about the problems (don't get me started on those), but please note that I don't believe it's just a discussion for classicists and only classicists. Language and education is a very serious thing for any society, and I wish someone had asked both philologues and parents/students before they abolished the polytonic (for example). Pronounciation as well is not a difficulty to be brushed aside, if that's what you mean. Anyway, I can tell that you love the language and you feel strongly about some things, but have in mind that, just like most people, we really love our language too. I'm sure your Plato sounds fine :) Edited by renaissancemedi on 09 October 2013 at 1:10pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4355 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 11 of 17 09 October 2013 at 1:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Thematic selection online
This is a site for high school students, so it's all in greek. But is is a truly great resource, with many texts, notes and everything. No English makes it difficult, but just for the texts it provides it may have some value to a beginner. Edited by renaissancemedi on 09 October 2013 at 1:23pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4355 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 12 of 17 09 October 2013 at 2:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Another link
if you don't already know about it. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4355 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 13 of 17 11 October 2013 at 7:58am | IP Logged | |||||
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A link on erasmian pronounciation from the fisrt site I gave you before. It's for highschool, as I said, good, with other links in the end. In greek, but you can find your way easily to hear the pronounciation, if that's what you want to do.
This is a good site for greek learnrers altogether, so I think I'll post it in the links subforum. Pronounciation 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4886 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 14 of 17 11 October 2013 at 7:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
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At least for Homeric, I get the sense that the meter is far more important than the
details of pronunciation. I've read that Homer pulled words from different Greek dialects anyway, to choose the one that fit best with the dactylic hexameter. From what I know of islands and isolated communities, each island tends to have their own unique accents. In Micronesia I can tell you what village someone is from (sometimes) just based on their accent and pronunciation of certain words. My non- professional opinion is that the ancient world would have been the same, and that there was no single or "right" accent. That doesn't mean that modern academia won't insist on one! I don't know if Classical or Koine Greek put the same importance on meter. Edited by kanewai on 14 October 2013 at 5:22pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Domi333 Tetraglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5136 days ago 7 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English*, French, Creole (French), Portuguese Studies: Turkish, Ancient Greek | Message 15 of 17 14 October 2013 at 2:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I've been thinking about this too.
I've been going through Athenaze and I'm also working on my Turkish so I've been using Prof Arguelles advice of sticking to 30 minutes for each language (which I only do for one of them). This is a long-term goal but I'm not learning Modern Greek so I know where to focus on with Anc. Greek. Edited by Domi333 on 14 October 2013 at 2:08pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| polyglossic Newbie United States polyglossic.wordpres Joined 4341 days ago 8 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, French, Ancient Greek, Portuguese | Message 16 of 17 17 January 2014 at 11:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
I just felt like chiming in here because I've formally studied Classical and informally played around with Homeric for a couple of years. Yes of course there were regional accents in ancient Greece - Herodotus writes in Ionic, for example, which can drive you batty if you're used to the Attic (i.e. Athenian) dialect that is usually the focus of any "classical" Greek instruction. As for your comments about meter, Homer puts a lot of emphasis on meter because Homer is writing poetry. Any Classical Greek writer of poetry would certainly care about meter as well, though it might have been a different meter than Homer's works. Prose authors of course ignore poetic meter. Hence Koine, which only exists in the writings of the New Testament, wouldn't display the "emphasis" on meter that Homer did. @zabanaflawa, I don't know if this would be an option for you, but after my formal Greek classes ended I found a nice group of former Greek students who get together on Saturday mornings to read Homer for a few hours. We're all working professionals but it's a very pleasant way for all of us to maintain the language we love and keep immersed in the literature. If you live in a big city, or a university town, you might be able to find something similar! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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