Pronunciation schemes for Ancient Greek

[siliconwafer]

There are different pronunciation schemes that people use when they pronounce words written in Ancient Greek. Some people use the Modern Greek pronunciation scheme. Others use the Erasmian pronunciation scheme and others use the reconstructed Biblical scheme. Which pronunciation scheme do you prefer?

[BookerG]

I learned the Erasmian, and since I don't ever intend to try to hold a conversation in Greek, and I never speak, read aloud, or hear it spoken except at an occasional pastors conference (and most of them had the same teachers), I don't have a lot of motivation to change to one of the "better" pronunciations.

[lee_merrill]

I like American! Pronouncing in my head as if it was English is most natural, though I do try and do the accents in the text at times. I'm wishy-washy.

[Rushing Jaws]

There are different pronunciation schemes that people use when they pronounce words written in Ancient Greek. Some people use the Modern Greek pronunciation scheme. Others use the Erasmian pronunciation scheme and others use the reconstructed Biblical scheme. Which pronunciation scheme do you prefer?

## Which ever seems to be best supported :)

There are several books about this on www.archive.org that can downloaded for nothing. I take for granted that "autos" is not pronounced "avtos" but "owtos" - but if that's wrong, it's wrong. I cringe every time I come across "Hercules" for "Herakles", & (horribly) "Ulysses" for "Odusseus". (I don't like Greek mangling of Semitic names either, as in "Belos" or "Zeus Belos", for the god Marduk of Babylon AKA Bel.)

In English based on Greek texts - e.g., an English re-telling of the "Iliad", talk of "Jupiter" & "Juno" & "Minerva" for Zeus, Herē, Athenē, is just ugly - Homer knew nothing of those Roman deities.