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Doesn't Modern Greek have the accent on the a of thea as well?
Doesn't Modern Greek have the accent on the a of thea as well?
I didn't say 'are given by Homer', yet the accentuation is nevertheless useful for the student to know. We could go in circles trying to outsmart each other on the matter ("Homer didn't actually write his verses, you know", etc.), but let's don't.Homer didn't use diacritics. Aristophanes of Byzantium was the originator of these in the late third century, B.C.
What a strange phrase. Is that some slang idiom?let's don't.
6. Τις ην εν Κιλλη επι Θάλασση;
What type of computer do you have? On most of them you just go to keyboard settings or equivalent and add Greek as an option.I don’t have the keyboard now but the poly tonic option is on the computer I use.
What's your ultimate aim though? To read Homer? To compose authentic-looking archaic hexameter? Either way, I'm not sure how useful the book is.I know that Homeric Greek isn’t really one dialect, but it was the best looking book I found online.
Homer didn't use diacritics. Aristophanes of Byzantium was the originator of these in the late third century, B.C.
So I was actually right in being simple.
Hah, I was about to say that (depending on which scholar you believe, I guess). Of course, there's also differences in spelling.I didn't say 'are given by Homer', yet the accentuation is nevertheless useful for the student to know. We could go in circles trying to outsmart each other on the matter ("Homer didn't actually write his verses, you know", etc.), but let's don't.
Sorry, but if you look closely at that papyrus you'll find that the author has used diacritics and punctuation... not regularly, but enough to help out the reader in certain places.Yupp.
ἆρα ἡ καλὴ βουλή ἠστσι φίλη ταῖς τῶν θεῶν ψῡχαῖς;(Also I keep typing έστι for εισι but that’s just a careless mistake, I understand which is which. After I studied Hittite έστι looks like it should mean something else :/)
6. Who was in Cilla by the sea?
Does this mean 'who was by the shore, in Cilla?', or 'Who was in Cilla-by-the-sea?᾽?6. Τις ην εν Κιλλη επι Θάλασση;
Ok, you looked very closely there Obviously, this was just some later papyrus (I don't know from which time) that I just copied to show the continuous script (not so much the diacritics).Sorry, but if you look closely at that papyrus you'll find that the author has used diacritics and punctuation... not regularly, but enough to help out the reader in certain places.
For example, the twelth line down reads ανδρωναῦμεγ᾽αριστοςέηντελαμωνιοςαιας
Τίς τάρ ἦν παρὰ θῖνα πολυφλοίσβοιο θαλάσσης:
ἐν Κίλλῃ, uu - uu - uu - u u - -
Samuel Butler believed that Homer wrote the Odyssey. He made an interesting case that can send some into paroxysms of anger a century later.I didn't say 'are given by Homer', yet the accentuation is nevertheless useful for the student to know. We could go in circles trying to outsmart each other on the matter ("Homer didn't actually write his verses, you know", etc.), but let's don't.