Ancient Greek dialog in "3000 years of longing"

Greek Learning Greek
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The movie is on Amazon Prime. At 12 minutes in there is about 3 minutes of dialog in Ancient Greek. Such fun.

I have begun trying to transcribe the Ancient Greek. I would appreciate help with the task. All for fun, of course.

Martin Cowen
in GA

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I saw that movie too and enjoyed that brief exchange between the two main characters! :stuck_out_tongue:

I will be very interested to see what folks post here as a translation. :smiley:

Cheers.

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Doctor: Do you speak …?
Doctor: Ἑλληνική [Greek?]
Genie: τὴν τοῦ Ὅμηρου διάλεκτον ὁμηλεις; [last word in doubt: do you speak the language of Homer?]
Doctor: μαθήματα τινα ἔσχον ἐν διδακτεριο. [I took some classes at university.]

Slow going.

Spelling and accent fixes needed.

Watching the movie on a computer shows up the subtitles for me, making transcription easier.

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That’s a great beginning - keep it up :smiley:

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ὁμηλεις probably should be ὁμιλεις.

There is a serious question about the use of this verb for “do you speak.”