Accents:

Greek Learning Greek
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I am working very hard on accents, but am having very little luck finding material.

I am working with two books: Athenaze which harldy touches them. The other, Fordham’s Intensive has no answer key, so I can’t tell if I am doing them right.

I am looking for a text that is very intensive with lots of exercises and an answer key. I was in a Koine class that did not cover accents, but I understand they are veryyy important for Ionic and Attic.

Thank you!

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You can create your own exercises. You take some real texts, replace all accents with plain vocals and than you exercise as much as you want and you do have a key.

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~tayl0010/letters_table_caretpos2.htm
Press greek letters and you will see all possible combinations.

Ancient greek texts.
Scroll down a bit
http://www.mikrosapoplous.gr/texts1.htm

and here always press the blue letters and then Texte

http://mercure.fltr.ucl.ac.be/Hodoi/concordances/intro.htm

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That is a great idea. Thanks!

I am still trying to find a text to explain it. I have been researching and found that not only do they change between Koine, Attic, etc, but also between the times and texts themselves. Like Plato’s accents are different than the accents in certain poetry of the same time.

So I see it is confusing. Any ideas of texts that cover this in detail, regarding Attic Greek, I am very interested! Thank you.


Sorenna

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For almost everything you could ever want to know about Greek accentuation, explained in a clear format with exercises and a key:

A New Short Guide to the Accentuation of Ancient Greek, by Philomen Probert (Duckworth, 2002).

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Before you buy the book, go through the exercises on Mastronarde’s website. At a user’s request, even some exercises on enclitics were added. But basically, you have drills on persistent and recessive accent. The rest you really will learn along the way. Or when you start teaching:-)