Vox Graeca
Vox Graeca

Author: W. Sidney Allen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1987-09-24

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780521335553

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This is a new and enlarged edition of Professor Allen's highly successful book on the pronunciation of Attic Greek in classical times. In this edition, Professor Allen has in particular revised the presentation of the controversial question of stress; the chapter on quantity has been extensively recast; and an appendix has been added on the names of the letters of the Greek alphabet. In addition to the new material, the supplementary notes of the second edition are now incorporated into the main text making this a very convenient book to use.

Reading and Pronouncing Biblical Greek
Reading and Pronouncing Biblical Greek

Author: Philemon Zachariou

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2020-06-08

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1725254506

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This book invites you to see not only how Hellenistic Koine ought to be pronounced but also why. Rigorously investigating the history of Greek orthography and sounds from classical times to the present, the author places linguistic findings on one side of the scale and related events on the other. The result is a balance between the evidence of the historical Greek sounds in Koine and pre-Koine times, and the political events that derailed those sounds as they were being transported through Europe's Renaissance academia and replaced them with Erasmian. This book argues for a return to the historical Greek sounds now preserved in Neohellenic (Modern Greek) as a step toward mending the Erasmian dichotomy that rendered post-Koine Greek irrelevant to New Testament Greek studies. The goal is a holistic and diachronic application of the Hellenic language and literature to illume exegetically the Greek text, as the New Testament contains numerous features that have close affinity with Neohellenic and should not be left unexplored.

Sound Matters
Sound Matters

Author: Margaret E. Lee

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2018-11-06

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1532649983

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Sound matters. The New Testament's first audiences were listeners, not readers. They heard its compositions read aloud and understood their messages as linear streams of sound. To understand the New Testament's meaning in the way its earliest audiences did, we must hear its audible features and understand its words as spoken sounds. Sound Matters presents essays by ten scholars from five countries and three continents, who explore the New Testament through sound mapping, a technique invented by Margaret Lee and Bernard Scott for analyzing Greek texts as speech. Sound Matters demonstrates the value and uses of this technique as a prelude and aid to interpretation. The essays that make up this volume illustrate the wide range of interpretive possibilities that emerge when sound mapping restores the spoken sounds of the New Testament and revives its living voice.

Vox Latina
Vox Latina

Author: W. Sidney Allen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1989-08-17

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9780521379366

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This is a reissue of the second edition of a book on the pronunciation of Latin in Rome in the Golden Age. It has a section of supplementary notes which deal with subsequent developments in the subject. The author has also added an appendix on the names of the letters of the Latin alphabet.

Accent and Rhythm
Accent and Rhythm

Author: W. Sidney Allen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1973-09-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0521200989

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This is a book of permanent importance for students of classical languages and literatures.

Homeric Questions
Homeric Questions

Author: Gregory Nagy

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2009-03-06

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 0292778740

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Book The "Homeric Question" has vexed Classicists for generations. Was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey a single individual who created the poems at a particular moment in history? Or does the name "Homer" hide the shaping influence of the epic tradition during a long period of oral composition and transmission? In this innovative investigation, Gregory Nagy applies the insights of comparative linguistics and anthropology to offer a new historical model for understanding how, when, where, and why the Iliad and the Odyssey were ultimately preserved as written texts that could be handed down over two millennia. His model draws on the comparative evidence provided by living oral epic traditions, in which each performance of a song often involves a recomposition of the narrative. This evidence suggests that the written texts emerged from an evolutionary process in which composition, performance, and diffusion interacted to create the epics we know as the Iliad and the Odyssey. Sure to challenge orthodox views and provoke lively debate, Nagy's book will be essential reading for all students of oral traditions.

Sophisticated Speakers
Sophisticated Speakers

Author: Carlo Vessella

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2018-01-09

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 3110432293

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This book explores for the first time the relation between Atticist lexicography and the pronunciation of Greek, an aspect of Atticism that has never been studied thouroughly before. It examines the ideas of the Atticist about what Greek should sound like, drawing on Atticist lexicography as the main source of information on the special pronunciation of the Atticist. The book addresses all scholars with an interest in Atticism, Greek in the Imperial period, and linguistic purism more in general. It sheds new light on an aspect of Atticism that is otherwise poorly attested, and complements the existiting study on later Greek and the impact of Atticism in the history of the Greek language.