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LESSON 2 - First Part / Second Part
ACHILLES' GRIEF - From Homer's Iliad 

by George Valsamis

 

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Accents & Breathing marks

 

YOU SEE in the text, above the small letters or at the left side of capital letters some signs. These signs are placed on vowels and they are accents (τόνοι) and breathing marks (πνεύματα):

 

 

Acute (ὀξεία)

Grave (βαρεία)

Circumflex (περισπωμένη)

Accents

(τόνοι):

´

`

῀

 

Rough (δασεία)

Smooth (ψιλή)

 

Breathing marks

(πνεύματα):

῾

᾿

 

 

Breathing marks and accents can have the following combinations:

῎  ῍  ῏    ῞  ῝  ῟

* You can't have an accent combined with another accent, or a breathing mark combined with another breathing mark: You can only combine an accent with a breathing mark.

* Accents acute and grave are written at the right of a breathing mark, while circumflex is written at the top of a breathing mark.

 

Accent circumflex is the result of the union of the accent acute with the accent grave.

E.g. in χώρὸς  ´+` unite and form  ῀  : χῶρος. [χῶρος means space and place, in the sense of a ground, where beings are called to pro-ceed (προ-χωρεῖν) in order to be hosted and united].

 

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