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Does anyone know of some good resources to learn about ancient Greek stress and intonation? I'm starting a text setting of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley and Pound writes in a letter that the meter is "Gautier and Bion's Adonis". I think it would be helpful to hear someone read a Greek epic out loud to get a sense of how to shape the vocal part but I'm having trouble finding anything.
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>>9157057
A good Greek grammar is what you want. Read the basic rules of quantity, then read the section on prosody.
Smyth's is considered the best English grammar of Greek and it's in the public domain.
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>>9157057
Sihler's Latin + Greek Grammar
The modern edition was expanded to discuss nearly all Indo-European languages and is kind of intimidating though.
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Pound is my favorite fraud.
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>>9157057
Don't bother for Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. If you actually want to read some Greek poetry, get hold of a good old-fashioned primer secondhand.
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