Dear Greg,
in addition to epigraphic evidence, you might want to take a look at
some (poorly preserved) papyri:
PÖHLMANN, E. – WEST, M. L., The Oldest Greek Papyrus and Writing
Tablets: Fifth Century Documents from the ‘Tomb of the Musician’ in
Attica. ZPE 180 (2012) 1–16.
Especially for the etas and omegas.
-Marja
Lainaus Gregory Crane <[log in to unmask]>:
> I am getting ready to speak to the Mommsen Society in Germany next
> week and I would like to make the point that linguistic annotation
> is not new -- rather, it is so entrenched in our scholarship that we
> have forgotten the extent to which we embed it in our work.
>
> I would like to use an edition of Aeschylus as an example and to
> show first a 19th century edition and then show the text as it might
> have appeared if we had whatever text Aeschylus initially produced
> (however he produced it and assuming he had a single stable text).
>
> I am not an expert in the writing of 5th century Athens and assume
> we derive virtually all of our understanding from epigraphic data
> but there I am certainly no expert.
>
> To get a closer approximation of what Aeschylus might have produced
> I would do the following:
>
> * convert all etas and omegas to epsilons and omicrons
> * remove all accents
> * remove all punctuation
> * remove all distinction between upper and lower case
>
> Any suggestions to correct or improve that?
>
> Greg
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Dr. Marja Vierros
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Maailman kulttuurien laitos / Department of world cultures
Kreikan kieli ja kirjallisuus / Greek language and literature
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