The pronunciation of Ancient Greek is a fascinating story that stretches from the epic Homeric legends through Classical Greece and Rome to the modern era. How did the sound of Greek change from early to late antiquity to the Mediaeval period to the present? In this series of videos, I will answer those questions, and many more!
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Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers by Horrocks:
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00:00 Intro
00:18 How ει is pronounced in Modern Greek
01:02 Diphthong vs digraph
02:02 Erasmus: what he got right, and what he got wrong
05:15 Latin transcriptions — Ἀλεξάνδρεια: Alexandrēa vs Alexandrīa, the statistics
08:41 Lucian Pronunciation of Ancient Greek
10:15 ει confused with ῑ and η in early to mid Koine period (late 4cBC to 1cAD)
10:39 5cBC Classical Attic
12:15 The sound of ει in 5cBC Classical Attic: how we know it's not the diphthong /ei̯/
13:04 Athens adopts the Ionian alphabet in 403 BC under Euclid
14:54 Did archaic Greek have the diphthong /ei̯/ for ει?
17:58 Did Homeric Greek have the diphthong /ei̯/ for ει?
20:34 Working for the Word & Aleph with Beth
20:58 The impracticability of restoring either "Homeric" pronunciation or the diphthong /ei̯/ for ει in general
23:10 Koine Greek definition
23:28 Boeotian dialect
25:43 There you go again!
28:49 Pronunciation Wars
31:58 The Great Schism ✝ ⚡ ☦
33:30 The intent of Erasmus
35:18 My problem
36:47 Use this one trick to make your Erasmian Pronunciation more historical!
38:14 I accept whatever pronunciation you wish to use!
38:44 πρὸς τοῦς τῆς Ἐλλάδος φίλους
39:50 I make fun of how I used to feel about this
40:18 This is what I'm critical of! A real howler
41:07 Ποσειδῶν ➡ Posīdōn ➡ Poseidon?!
41:53 Conclusion
43:37 stinger