[B-Greek] Grammar Translation (New pronunciation, in Surprised by Joy)
James Spinti
JSpinti at Eisenbrauns.com
Wed Aug 5 09:10:39 EDT 2009
At that time in the UK, it was standard to pronounce classical Greek
with a Latin stress accent. The "new" pronunciation would have been to
use the accents on the Greek words in pronouncing the stress. The
original logic for the Latinate stress accent (or, so I have been told)
was that it made scanning meter in poetry easier.
HTH,
James
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From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Emanuel Contac
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 4:12 AM
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Grammar Translation (New pronunciation,in
Surprised by Joy)
This is rather an off-topic in relation to what is typically asked on
the
forum, but I have one query regarding the "new" pronunciation which C.S.
Lewis mentions in his autobiography, quoted in one of the previous
messages.
Does anyone know what new pronunciation was being used around 1914-1915
when
Lewis was studying with Mr. Kirkpatrick (the Great Knock) at Bookham?
There is a personal motivation behind my question. Last year I
translated
Lewis's autobiography into Romanian and naturally, I "exegeted" his text
as
carefully as I could, while making the translation. This particular bit
about the new pronunciation would fit into the "historical background",
I
guess. But I could not solve it. I still do not make sense of this
change to
which Lewis refers. Wasn't the Erasmian pronunciation the standard in
those
days?
"We opened our books at Iliad, Book 1. Without a word of
introduction Knock read aloud the first twenty lines or so in the
"new" pronunciation, which I had never heard before...
Emanuel Contac, Romania
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