Learn Ancient Greek: 2_Introduction accents
Channel: The Center for Hellenic Studies
Date: 2016-01-25

Leonard Muellner (Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies at Brandeis University) and Belisi Gillespie present all the content covered in two semesters of an Introduction to Ancient Greek college course.

The Greek accent is a musical accent, which is slightly different from the "stress" accents that most modern language learners are accustomed to. In this video, Professor Muellner takes us through WHY the accent system works the way it does in Ancient Greek and he gives us some tips for memorizing the rules for using them. Learning accent rules is essential for successfully reading Ancient Greek. This video corresponds to pages 6-15 (including the drills and exercises) in the Hansen & Quinn textbook.