[B-Greek] Accents - who is responsible?
Barry
nebarry at verizon.net
Sun Aug 17 14:33:21 EDT 2008
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From: "Vasile Stancu" <stancu at mail.dnttm.ro>
To: "'B-Greek B-Greek'" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 8:19 AM
Subject: [B-Greek] Accents - who is responsible?
>I would like to get some information (perhaps some good Internet ressources
> links, as this subject must be vast, I suppose) regarding the following:
>
>
>
> - How, when and by whom (if there is such information) were the old Greek
> manuscripts editted so as to be added the accents/spirits as we have them
> today? (I understand that the original manuscripts did not contain any
> such
> marks).
Vasile, I know very little about this aspect of the history of Greek
manuscripts, but I suspect that no massive editing at all was involved.
It's most likely that over a period of time, as copyists who used accents
copied from manuscripts which did not use them, they simply added them to
the copy they were making. If I'm wrong I hope someone more knowledgeable
may correct... :)
The invention of accents and punctuation is usually attributed to
Aristophanes of Byzantium:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Aristophanes_of_Byzantium.aspx
N.E. Barry Hofstetter
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Classics Instructor, TAA
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