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- From: ada612@huxley.anu.edu.au (Avery D Andrews)
- Newsgroups: sci.classics
- Subject: Pronunciation of Greek names in Homer's Odyssey
- Date: 12 Dec 92 00:32:17 GMT
- Organization: Australian National University
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- In article <1g79ahINN6ef@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk>,
- kd@doc.ic.ac.uk (Kostis Dryllerakis) writes:
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- > So the controversy will remain live. For us greeks, we would like
- >to believe that our language is not only close to ancient greek to its
- >symbols but also to its sounds. I beleive that I speak for all of the fellow
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- I haven't noticed that the `traditionalist' view (that classical
- Greek pronunciation was pretty much like Modern Greek) has many
- non-Greek adherents, which suggests that its basis is more emotional
- than scholarly or scientific. And 2500 years is a *long* time for
- the pronunciation of a language to remain essentially unchanged.
- And what is the traditionalist position on Greek pronunciation in
- the vicinity of 700 BC, which is around when the Homeric poems seem
- to be currently thought to have been written down?
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- Avery.Andrews@anu.edu.au
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