[B-Greek] Accent marks in ancient Greek

P R prittman at gmail.com
Thu Sep 9 01:18:07 EDT 2010


I typically have a heck of a time getting accent marks on Greek letters that
I type in MS Word, and recently came across a transcript from another list,
some of whose members were saying that they don't use accent marks when
writing out ancient Greek letters, since they are either unnecessary or
conjectural (in that the system of accents was inserted centuries after
Greek writing first developed).

Honestly I'd love to junk the entire system of accents if I could. What do
the people on this list have to say about ancient Greek accents?

I didn't see a way to search the archives, and I didn't see anything like
this in the previous couple of months.

Paul Rittman



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