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Originally Posted by omk3
At school we always pronounced ancient greek exactly like modern greek. Visiting a german school I was surprised at the pronunciation they used when reading Homer.
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We know how Attic Greek was pronounced pretty well, largely through the transliteration of names of places and people from Greek into Latin. So, for example, in Attic Greek, beta was "b" and delta was "d", rather than the "v" and "th" they've become in modern Greek.