Quellant | Reconstructed Ancient Greek Spoken (Iliad and Euclid) @quellant6937 | Uploaded June 2016 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
(Update: I was still in uni when I made this. My interpretation of Ancient Greek phonology is now slightly different from back then. Time passes!)
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Some readings (in Attic~Ionic style) of the opening Lines 1-7 of the Iliad, and the start of Euclid's Elements Book 13.17 (on dodecahedron)
I loosely transliterated the Iliad lines into Mycenaean Linear B, (for fun), since the Iliad likely depicts the Mycenaean Greek era.
Digamma 'w' was lost in Classical Greek, but persisted in some dialects.
Diaresis iota ï indicated a syllable boundary.
Doubled consonants are geminated / long.
Some guesses I made:
- Acute accent as a high tone on short vowels, rising tone on long vowels ω ει η ου.
- Circumflex as a universal high falling tone.
- Grave as a neutral or mid-low tone.
(Update: I was still in uni when I made this. My interpretation of Ancient Greek phonology is now slightly different from back then. Time passes!)
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Some readings (in Attic~Ionic style) of the opening Lines 1-7 of the Iliad, and the start of Euclid's Elements Book 13.17 (on dodecahedron)
I loosely transliterated the Iliad lines into Mycenaean Linear B, (for fun), since the Iliad likely depicts the Mycenaean Greek era.
Digamma 'w' was lost in Classical Greek, but persisted in some dialects.
Diaresis iota ï indicated a syllable boundary.
Doubled consonants are geminated / long.
Some guesses I made:
- Acute accent as a high tone on short vowels, rising tone on long vowels ω ει η ου.
- Circumflex as a universal high falling tone.
- Grave as a neutral or mid-low tone.
