Stephen G. Daitz reads Sappho in reconstructed, pitched pronunication“It’s all very tricky: the fact is that when you learn Classical Greek as an undergraduate today you tend simply to stress the accented syllables and leave it at that. But, however tentative reconstructions such as Daitz’s may be, they remind you that Greek had a natural music to it. Those quarter notes and eighth notes, the soprano acutes and baritone graves, the Margaret Dumont curveball of the circumflex: even without her lyre, Sappho sings.”
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