A Brief Explanation into Meter, Sappho, and How to Sing Ancient Greek
In this video I go through brief explanations of Ancient Greek Accent, Sapphic meter, and a brief example of how to sing some Sappho For more on this, here s an example of Stephen Daitz s recreation of the Hymn to Aphrodite (which I will be recreating fully later) : For further reading on this please consult: Stephen Daitz, Further Notes on the Pronunciation of Ancient Greek. The Classical World 95, no. 4 (2002) Matthew Dillons The Erasmian Pronunciation of Ancient Greek: A New Perspective. The Classical World 94, no. 4 (2001) and Sidney W. Allens VOX GRAECA: A GUIDE TO THE PRONUNCIATION OF CLASSICAL GREEK. London: Cambridge University Press, 1968.
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