A place for discussing the differences between dialects, I’ll start with a question of my own:
If Ἄϊδι is the Epic form (Il.1.3) why is Ἅιδι the Attic form? I thought that τῷ ᾍδῃ would be the Attic form. Is Ἅιδι derived from a slightly different form of the epithet?
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Where do you see this?
In Keller and Russel, chapter 14 continuous reading
One possibility I thought of was, what if it had something to do with a form prior to the eta with iota subscript?
Or is it an error?
ᾍδῃ shows up in Euripides sometimes, at least. I don’t think that Ἅιδι is real. If ΑΙΔΙ did show up in Attic outside the context of a quote from Homer, etc., it would be impossible to tell the breathing anyway, without some statement from a grammarian.
This is from the corrigenda on YUP website:
Page 605
Continuous Reading 1
In the fourth-last entry in the first column change “Attic Ἅιδι” to
“Attic Ἅιδῃ”.
Here’s the URL:
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Course%20Resources/Learn%20to%20Read%20Greek/LTRG_Corrigenda_August_2015.pdf
Checking the corrigenda (corrections) is a longshot. This is one of the very few times it has paid off!
ok so TIL that you can check for errors, even if they are just the ones that have been spotted…
It’s just another place to check when what you’re reading doesn’t make sense. Reading your question and Joel’s answers, I went to the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae to see if Ἄϊδι is used anywhere other than Homer and failing that, I found the corrigenda for Learning to Read Greek on the Yale University Press website and sure enough, there was the error. Most things aren’t perfect and textbooks can have their share of errors as well.