Accents in Ancient Greek are often a topic that not many people pay attention to when teaching this language. However, they are an important part of the journey of learning Ancient Greek. In this video I teach you the kinds of accents that exist in Ancient Greek and how we can classify words according to the accent that they have.
Learn about Ancient Greek diphthongs and breathings here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95C-7iCCbRo
Check some differences between Ancient and Modern Greek here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDojnOSporE
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00:00 Intro
00:47 Why Study Accents?
01:30 Origin of Ancient Greek Accents
02:00 Accents of Pitch vs. Accents of Stress
03:30 Kinds of Accents in Ancient Greek
03:49 Acute Accent
04:39 Grave Accent
05:10 Circumflex Accent
06:00 Placement of Accents
07:03 Oxytone Words
07:34 Paroxytone Words
08:15 Proparoxytone Words
08:40 Perispomenon Words
09:15 Properispomenon Words
09:43 Barytone Words
11:03 Final Remarks