Pindar's Olympian Ode 14

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Pindar's Olympian Ode 14

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I read aloud Pindar's Olympian Ode 14:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqFagt3Sbjo

There are English subtitles, translated with corrections from a forum regular.
“One might get one’s Greek from the very lips of Homer and Plato." "In which case they would certainly plough you for the Little-go. The German scholars have improved Greek so much.”

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nice! they were meant to be sung so I would like to hear the meter a little more clearly & why not try some pitch accents.
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I'm afraid that's my best as far as metre goes. The pitch accents, when I try to emphasize them, do not come out sounding natural, so I try not to concentrate on them. Maybe once I can do a Norwegian pitch accent, I'll try to attempt a Greek one.
“One might get one’s Greek from the very lips of Homer and Plato." "In which case they would certainly plough you for the Little-go. The German scholars have improved Greek so much.”

Joel Eidsath -- jeidsath@gmail.com
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