Questions tagged [scansion]
For questions about scansion, or rhythmic reading of poetry.
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What is the etymology of Ἁμαδρυάς (Hamadryas)? Is the second alpha actually long?
I am trying to find more information about the formation and pronunciation of the Greek noun Ἁμαδρυάς, taken into Latin as Hamadryas. L&S transcribes the second a of the Latin form with a macron: ...
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Can a same poet use both U/V (vowel/consonant) variants of the same stem?
There are some words that poets use in more than one way. For example the word deorsum, usually 3 syllables (dĕ-or-sum), but sometimes the poets allowed themselves some freedom, and had it as 2 ...
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Did Greek ever have long initial consonants?
In this other answer, TKR suggests that the Homeric dative οἱ might have once been something like *ϝϝοι, with initial long [wː]. This makes sense to me, etymologically, since it may have come from a ...
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