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6. Τις ην εν Κιλλη επι Θάλασση;
 

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Doesn't Modern Greek have the accent on the a of thea as well?

Yeah, but there’s θέα which means vision or sight.
 

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Homer didn't use diacritics. Aristophanes of Byzantium was the originator of these in the late third century, B.C.
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.
 

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Of courses.
 

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Well, that’s not good, lol.
 

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I can’t upload it.
 

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6. Who was in Cilla by the sea?
 

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I assume that it’s right by the fantastical poetic dialect?
 
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Yes, apart from the random accent on thallase, it seems right to me.
 

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Ok. I thought so. I’m moving on to the next section.
 

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I don’t have the keyboard now but the poly tonic option is on the computer I use.
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.
If you can't type them as is, try using / for acute, \ for grave, ^ for circumflex, ) ( for breathings, : for long vowels, along the lines of the Perseus input.
I know that Homeric Greek isn’t really one dialect, but it was the best looking book I found online.
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.
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.
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.
Hah, I was about to say that (depending on which scholar you believe, I guess). Of course, there's also differences in spelling.
The poets did distinguish the sounds in speech which we mark with the diacritics, so I don't see that the original form of writing matters that much.
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
(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 :/)
ἆρα ἡ καλὴ βουλή ἠστσι φίλη ταῖς τῶν θεῶν ψῡχαῖς;

6. Who was in Cilla by the sea?
6. Τις ην εν Κιλλη επι Θάλασση;
Does this mean 'who was by the shore, in Cilla?', or 'Who was in Cilla-by-the-sea?᾽?
Something like:
Τίς τάρ ἦν παρὰ θῖνα πολυφλοίσβοιο θαλάσσης:
ἐν Κίλλῃ, uu - uu - uu - u u - -
 
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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
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).
Τίς τάρ ἦν παρὰ θῖνα πολυφλοίσβοιο θαλάσσης:
ἐν Κίλλῃ, uu - uu - uu - u u - -

Haha, nice! :)
 

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Ι’ve got a nice Windows PC at home. I’m using phones atm though.
 

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My goal was just to learn Ancient Greek as one learns Latin. I would’ve gone with Attic but this was what I found...it seems easier...but maybe that’s not good in the long run...

That being said, reading Homer would be great.
 

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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.
Samuel Butler believed that Homer wrote the Odyssey. He made an interesting case that can send some into paroxysms of anger a century later.

https://sacred-texts.com/cla/aoto/index.htm

https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/authoress-odyssey-1897

https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2018/05/authoress-odyssey.html
 
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