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! 🇬🇷 🏛 Latin by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: https://luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/latin-by-the-ranieri-dowling-method-latin-summary-of-forms-of-nouns-verbs-adjectives-pronouns-audio-grammar-tables 🏺Ancient Greek by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: https://luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/ancient-greek-by-the-ranieri-dowling-method-latin-summary-of-forms-of-nouns-verbs-adjectives-pronouns-audio-grammar-tables 🏺 Lucian Pronunciation of Ancient Greek: https://youtu.be/Dt9z5Gvp3MM 📄 Ancient Greek Pronunciation Guide: http://bit.ly/ranierigreekpronunciationguide ▶️ Ancient Greek Pronunciation playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQQL5IeNgck0hFZ5oEfTV1Zhp_xksAgCz 🗞 My newsletter discussing the importance of pronunciation in working with ancient languages like Ancient Greek: http://lukeranieri.com/newsletter_2021-02-11/ 🐢 Learn Ancient Greek with my Comprehensible Input video series Ancient Greek in Action! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU1WuLg45SixsonRdfNNv-CPNq8xUwgam 👨‍🏫 Latin & Greek Pronunciation Evolution 500 BC to 500 AD "Vōcēs quae per saecula inmūtantur" (Living Latin & Ancient Greek in New York City 2020): https://youtu.be/c_Giy_LHAlU​ 🕰 Ranieri's Greek Pronunciation Chronology Spreadsheet: https://bit.ly/ranierigreekpronunciation​ 📺 Dialect VS Language (polýMATHY video): https://youtu.be/zUlNhs8rJ_g Free Ancient Greek audio in Lucian Pronunciation 👨‍🌾 Athenaze https://www.patreon.com/posts/36186862 🏺 Polis https://www.patreon.com/posts/45481663 🕵️‍♂️ Kataskopos https://www.patreon.com/posts/42738514 References used in this video: Vox Graeca by W. Sydney Allen: https://amzn.to/3qFL0IK Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers by Horrocks: https://amzn.to/3qNzAmj Social Variation and the Latin Language by J.N. Adams: https://amzn.to/2ZC4an4 Spell It Out, history of English orthography by David Crystal: https://amzn.to/3pJpHVl Occurrences of “Alexandrēa” in Roman Latin literature: https://latin.packhum.org/search?q=alexandrea Occurrences of “Alexandrīa” in Roman Latin literature: https://latin.packhum.org/search?q=alexandria And by Cicero: https://latin.packhum.org/search?q=%5Bcic%5D+alexandrea https://latin.packhum.org/search?q=%5Bcic%5D+alexandria @Paleogloss Raphael Turrigiano's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_rRxsAwe9nNvI-bHcXraQw Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLbiwlm3poGNh5XSVlXBkGA/join 🦂 Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LukeRanieri ☕️ Support my work with PayPal: https://paypal.me/lukeranieri 📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks: https://luke-ranieri.myshopify.com 🏛 Ancient Greek in Action · Free Greek Lessons: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU1WuLg45SixsonRdfNNv-CPNq8xUwgam 🦂 ScorpioMartianus (my channel *entirely* in Latin & Ancient Greek) https://www.youtube.com/scorpiomartianus 🌅 polýMATHY on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lukeranieri/ 🎙 Hundreds of hours of Latin & Greek audio: https://lukeranieri.com/audio 👕 Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/scorpiomartianus 🦂 https://www.ScorpioMartianus.com 🦅 https://www.LukeRanieri.com ☕️ Supported in part by LanguageMugs.com : https://languagemugs.com/shop/?wpam_id=11 📖 My book Ranieri Reverse Recall on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2nVUfqd 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

• published: 22 Feb 2021
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