Complete Ancient Greek: Teach Yourself (Complete Languages) by Gavin Betts & Alan Henry

Author:Gavin Betts & Alan Henry [Betts, Gavin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781444131741
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2012-03-30T00:00:00+00:00

Insight

All languages develop and change over long periods of time. However, although the Greek spoken in the Middle Ages differed considerably from that of Athens in the fifth century BC, the classical language was intensively studied and used for literary and formal purposes. An example is an inscription said to have adorned a fountain near the most famous church in Constantinople, Santa Sophia (Ἡγία Σοία): νίψον ἀνομήματα μὴ μόναν ὄψιν wash [your] sins, not only [your] face i.e. wash away your sins, not [just the dirt on] your face. Attic Greek, which was the favoured form of the ancient language, would have required μόνην as the feminine accusative singular of μόνος, but the writer of the inscription used the dialect form μόναν for a very good reason: it helps make the sentence a palindrome, i.e. it can be read from either left or right.

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