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by hcayless
2935 days ago
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It's a pretty good rendition. Greek pronunciation has shifted a lot from ancient to modern. See, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iotacism. Among other things, the accentuation has gone from pitch, which comes out nicely in this version (though we don't know precisely what it sounded like), to stress. So while it may look quite familiar to you reading it, it would have sounded very different. There was a Modern Greek speaker in the intro to Ancient Greek class I took in college, and I remember him remarking how disorienting it was. |
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Even Modern Greek, despite the homogenization effect of modern communications, still has local dialects which sound very different from one another and aren't easily intelligible to speakers of the standard dialect.