Pronunciation of Iesous

TonyProst at aol.com TonyProst at aol.com
Thu May 20 12:04:54 EDT 1999


I may point out that in Greek meter, the name is composed of three three 
syllables, and appears in only two positions in the Paraphrase by Nonnos 
(curiously!). Unlike every other name, including Christ, the name Jesus 
appears only in the initial or ultimate position. Every other name may appear 
in any position in a line. I admit that I looked at only about 1500 of the 
3658 lines of the poem, and extrapolate from those. 

That being said, the name appears in the initial position as an obligate 
spondee: EE-YAY, and the first beat of the following spondee or dactyl: 
SOUS...

as:

Ie^sous apameipto pare^goreo^n tini mutho^ (P.11.31)

Ie^soun apeonta thee^goron....	(P.11.229)

but in the terminal position, the iota is the last syllable of a dactyl, and 
the eta the first beat of the final obligate spondee, as:

e^chi meno^n podos ichnos akampeos eichen Ie^sous  (P.11 110)

For what it's worth

Regards
Tony Prost
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