[B-Greek] Modern Greek pronunciation for poetry

bertdehaan at sympatico.ca bertdehaan at sympatico.ca
Mon Sep 19 20:02:02 EDT 2005


Carl Conrad wrote:

" I've never had the problem Randall speaks of -- losing  
the sense of the words because of the effort to sustain the hexameter  
rhythm, because I find the hexameter rhythm sustains itself more or  
less mechanically."

Obviously I am in a different league than either one of you, (I am a boy scout and not a marine.) If I try to read it in meter I have no idea what I am reading.
I have not found that the hexameter sustains itself in my mind.
I would love to hear someone read a page or so of the Iliad with an organ in the background playing the pitch and the vowel length. 
I enjoy reading the Iliad without getting the meter but it would be great if "getting" the meter would increase the enjoyment.
Bert de Haan.





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