I was going to write an awesome long about mythology and/or ancient Hellas, but then I found the sound library of greek-gods.info and it all went out the window. I've been listening to sound files for the past half hour.
I have learned long ago that Hollywood ruined my ability to pronounce anything even vaguely Hellenic in a manner that the ancient Hellenes or their modern offspring would recognize ('dih-mee'-tur', really?). I've been trying to get back to the way I used to pronounce the names of the Theoi; Dutch pronunciation is actually much closer to the Greek than the English version. It's hard to unlearn something, though, especially when I recite the hymn--for example--in English.
While hunting for something else on the internet, I stumbled upon greek-god.info's sound library, which has sound files of the names of Titans, Olympians, many of the other Gods, mythological creatures and heroes, in both Greek and English. I especially love listening to both files for one name, and spotting the differences. Let's just say that there are plenty.
I'll get you a proper post tomorrow, but for today, you should be set with this database. Enjoy!
While hunting for something else on the internet, I stumbled upon greek-god.info's sound library, which has sound files of the names of Titans, Olympians, many of the other Gods, mythological creatures and heroes, in both Greek and English. I especially love listening to both files for one name, and spotting the differences. Let's just say that there are plenty.
I'll get you a proper post tomorrow, but for today, you should be set with this database. Enjoy!
3 comments:
This is how to pronounce the names of the gods in modern Greek. The pronounciation in ancient Greek was certainly different (and there were also differences between archaic, hellenistic, roman period Greek etc.
Very true, but it beats the English (American) pronunciation, regardless.
Actually I read it yesterday but I had some thoughts about it and today I wanted to read it again because it is very well written.
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