06-23-2012, 05:59 PM
Do suggest some good read on ancient Greek phonetics. I have in vain been (albeit casually) trying to look into the way that such approaches are being made for long and have found none that have satisfied me in terms of methodology and actual study rather than a pronunciation guide. Would you try to read Homer as an archaic Greek would, as an inhabitant of classical Athens or hellenistic Alexandria? It stands to reason that all these people read Homer in their own "dialects" which could be as different in pronunciation as British English is to American (or in Greece of today, as Corcyrian to Cretan)...
