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Originally Posted by Doitsu
And HarryT is, of course, also right in that the capital Greek letters usually aren't written with accents above letters, but Hugo decided to write them with accents anyway.  |
My point was actually that you can safely omit accents (but not breathing marks) from any Greek text. Accents were a late addition to the written language and were added purely to assist barbarians (ie non-Greeks) in stressing words correctly. The presence or absence of an accent doesn't change the meaning of the word, or affect its readability to someone who can actually read Greek (which is, I suspect, a rather small proportion of the readership of an English book these days
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tl;dr version: Don't worry about accents. They don't matter.