[B-Greek] Absurdity of Koine Greek accents (was "Allegory about learning Koine Greek")

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Tue Jul 21 05:14:16 EDT 2009


On Jul 20, 2009, at 10:11 PM, Louis Sorenson wrote:

>
> Rico, in Polis: Parler Le Grec Ancien, teaches the accents with  
> tone. On page 20 of his book Polis, he gives treble clef diagrams of  
> A/NQRWPOS (D-G-G), DESPOTHS (G-D-G), hRUQMO/S (G-D), KELEU/OMEN (G- 
> G~D-G-G) , MUSTH/RION (G-G~D-G), KEFALH/ (G-G-G~D) , DHLOU=MEN (G- 
> D~G-G) and QW/RAX (G-D~G).  The tilda shows a glide (up or down) on  
> a syllable; the hyphen separates syllables in my notation.

So he teaches pitch accent although we know that NT Koine had no pitch  
accent; does he also use the reconstructed Attic pronunciation of  
Sidney Allen? Or does he use the Erasmian pronunciation?

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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