[B-Greek] Greek Semi-Colon? [WAS: testing my new tool]

Jeffrey T. Requadt jeffreyrequadt_list at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 31 12:08:38 EST 2007


I finally found a very interesting discussion of ancient Greek punctuation in ATR (pp. 241-245), including a discussion of editorial prerogative. I found out that actually there were some punctuation marks in the papyri, though not all the ones we see in the modern editions. The only problem is, ATR is 88 years old! Is anyone aware of actual scholarly study on the subject since then (i.e., more recent research, not just retelling old ideas)?

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Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Greek Semi-Colon? [WAS: testing my new tool]

On Dec 30, 2007 6:50 PM, Jeffrey T. Requadt
<jeffreyrequadt_list at hotmail.com> wrote:
> As far as I know, a "raised period" (what is the actual term for that punctuation?) could be "roughly" equivalent to an English colon OR semicolon,

Smyth doesn't give it a name. In the Unicode tables it is called by
its modern Greek designation, ano teleia (where the letter o
represents Greek omega, but the Unicode table does not use macron).




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