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| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4159 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes  Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 9 of 13 04 June 2013 at 2:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'll look around too, maybe I'll find something.
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| Γρηγόρη Tetraglot Groupie United States Joined 4256 days ago 55 posts - 154 votes Speaks: English*, Greek, Latin, Ancient Greek Studies: German, French, Russian | Message 10 of 13 04 June 2013 at 4:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
Some are available in Google books. Searches there usually work best in Roman transliteration, using a long-mark to distinguish ε/η, ο/ω. Τhe real treasure trove, however, is Ἀνέμη (http://anemi.lib.uoc.gr/), which has digitized many of the books in the Univ. of Crete library. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Γρηγόρη Tetraglot Groupie United States Joined 4256 days ago 55 posts - 154 votes Speaks: English*, Greek, Latin, Ancient Greek Studies: German, French, Russian | Message 11 of 13 04 June 2013 at 4:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
Ἑστία still uses the polytonic system and maintains a light veneer of καθαρεύουσα. Its current style would simply have been regarded as καθομιλουμένη twenty or thirty years ago (use of gen. -έως in certain third decl. nouns, preference for ὅτι over πως, consistent retention of final -ν on τὸν/τὴν/δὲν, etc., some more conservative spellings and vocabulary choices). The puristic elements are not strong enough to be a stepping stone even to reading simple καθαρεύουσα like Papadiamantis. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Γρηγόρη Tetraglot Groupie United States Joined 4256 days ago 55 posts - 154 votes Speaks: English*, Greek, Latin, Ancient Greek Studies: German, French, Russian | Message 12 of 13 04 June 2013 at 4:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
Whether he was following it consciously or not, he had a good precedent in Dante's Latin defense of the vernacular, De Vulgari Eloquentia. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Γρηγόρη Tetraglot Groupie United States Joined 4256 days ago 55 posts - 154 votes Speaks: English*, Greek, Latin, Ancient Greek Studies: German, French, Russian | Message 13 of 13 04 June 2013 at 5:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
One of the reasons that I enjoy well-written katharevousa is that I find it so clear. That's probably just a function of the fact that I learned Ancient Greek before learning Modern Greek. I agree that Modern Greek literature has come a long way, but Demotic literature has its excesses, too. Many demotic authors, especially of yesteryear, apply dialectical forms with just as much prescriptivist fervor as the katharevousa authors. I love Kazantzakis, but get annoyed with all the Cretan dialectic. I enjoy that type of thing in the mouth of a character, since it makes the character seem more real, but in the basic narration of a novel (unless the story is being narrated in the voice of a character, it becomes tedious). Unless I'm mistaken, student editions of Kazantzakis have to be pretty heavily annotated just to explain all the vocabulary specific to Crete. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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