21.5.09
The restored pronunciation of classical Greek.
So I realize this first "real" post is long overdue, and that its "reality" as such could easily be contested, as I'm only here to make note of the Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin Literature, which I found through a Google search for Sappho 1. I've been meaning to look for reconstructed classical pronunciation for quite some time, and found it -- tones and all. Of interest here are Sappho 1 itself as well as a section from Euripides' Trojan Women. Worth a visit, even assuming no knowledge of Greek whatsoever (I have yet to poke around the Latin section) -- it's amazing how melodic and foreign it can sound when efforts are made to approximate how it was actually spoken.
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