1. Homeric Greek
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2. Hellenic also known as “Classical”
Period
Hellenic also known as “Classical”
The language used during the Homeric poems is often referred to as classical Greek.
“ BCE”
-most powerful (Athens and Sparta )
Homer ( bce )

3. papyrus
Book 1
Book 10
Book 18

4. Classical Greek
Greek Alphabet

5. Vowels
A a
E n , e
I i
O o , w
U u

6. Diphthong/iota

7. Rules of breaking down syllables
third
second
First
Syllables is as long as a diphthong/iota
If consonant is in the middle of 2 vowels or diphtongs the second vowel will be pronounced. Prepositions(final letter stays in compound words) “never going with final word”
Spit usually consists of 2 consonants

8. accents accents Pronunciations
H to be sounded with initial vowel or diphthong
H not pronounced

9. Endings for nouns and adjective
Declension feminine
Endings for nouns and adjective
Declined because they change endings (case endings)

10. Declension a

11. Declension masculine

12. Change endings of verbs
conjugation
Change endings of verbs

13. Present/past tense
present
past

14. punctuation
, comma
. Period
; question mark
colon

15. numbers Only 24 letters in the alphabet
Needed 27 letters (needed 3 more letters)
No 0

16. Works cited
“Bill Mounce.” History of the Greek Language, billmounce.com/greekalphabet/greeklanguage. Accessed 24 Sept “ Greek.” Greek “Greek Numbers.” Classical Greek Numbers, gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/numbers/greek/. Accessed 24 Sept “Homer.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 22 May 2017, Accessed 24 Sept Language and Linguistics: History, greeklinguistics.com/History.html. Accessed 24 Sept Original design: Andreas Viklund - “Original Christianity.” Speak Koine (Biblical) Greek 7 – Pronunciation 2, Accessed 24 Sept Sakoulas, Thomas. History of Greece: Classical Greece, ancient- greece.org/history/classical.html. Accessed 24 Sept Schoder, Raymond V., et al. A Reading Course in Homeric Greek. Focus Publishing, “Translating Homer.” Omeka RSS, papyri/translating/homeric-papyri. Accessed 24 Sept