I couldn’t find the audios for this very entertaining textbook anywhere:
https://archive.org/details/Thrasymachus_A_New_Greek_Course/page/4/mode/2up
That’s why I recorded the audios now, but only for my own use. I was just doing it on the quick, that’s why they are not of sufficient quality. However, since I saw in various discussions that people are interested in these recordings, I decided to make them available, even though there are some errors in them. Hopefully it will help someone. I recorded chapters 1-4 two years ago, so they are a bit worse than the others. For chapter 2A, I tried what the program Audacity can do.
The audios are in Erasmian pronunciation. When recording, I preferred these things, in that order:
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To let the tone and intonation of the speech know what the text is about, its meaning and mood. I really enjoy listening to this kind of text. But in order to record it so well, I have to understand it perfectly. From chapter 20 onwards, unfortunately, there were times when I didn’t understand something, especially those verses from Homer.
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It is important for me to pronounce all the letters correctly, even their lengths. Unfortunately, somewhere the lengths are wrong - for example in chapter 1 the word Χάρων. A few times the lengths there are unfortunately reversed - we have that in my native language.
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It is important for me to have enough speed of speech to sound normal and also not to get bored with it. Moreover, a sufficient speaking speed greatly improves the comprehension of the text.
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Accents - when I try to do the above, I can’t pronounce accents correctly anymore, that’s why there are a lot of them wrong. In fact, I don’t even try because I wouldn’t be able to do it at that speed.
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I can’t even read a bit of verse from Homer in hexameter. I apologize to anyone whose ears are going to be torn. I read it like a normal text, but which I barely understood.
I wish you a fun time listening to Thrasymachus, and if you come across any errors I’ll be happy to correct them - that is, only errors in letters, not accents and letter lengths.
Here it is:
https://archive.org/details/15_20221106_202211