#Homer scansion full#

This is called Attic correption, sometime known by its Latin name correptio Attica. For dogs and birds, as Zeus' will was done. Of heroes into Hades' dark, And left their bodies to rot as feasts. Incalculable pain, pitched countless souls. However, in Attic Greek, a short vowel followed by a plosive and a liquid consonant or nasal stop remains a short or ' open' syllable. Sing, Goddess, Achilles' rage, Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks. Typically, in Homeric meter, a syllable is scanned long or ' closed' when a vowel is followed by two or more consonants. Πλαγχ θε, ε | πει Τροι | η ς ι ε | ρον πτο λι | εθ ρο ν ε | περ σε Attic Scan Homer Average Line Rating 1215 Number of Active Lines 1,487 Elision Rate 0 Number of Attempts 42,650 Accuracy Rate 82.32 Time Spent 1,360.21 hours Very little is known of Homers life, to the extent that many wonder if Homer is an actual poet. Thus, the scansion of the second line is thus: Here the sequence η ε in bold must be pronounced as ε ε to preserve the long-short-short syllable weight sequence of a dactyl. Many ways after he had sacked the sacred citadel of Troy.

#Homer scansion full#

Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered full Scanning Homeric verse is something Im not very experienced at yet, and I have a question about these two.

Homer uses correption in dactylic hexameter:

Vowels next to each other in neighboring words are in hiatus.

In Latin and Greek poetry, correption ( Latin: correptiō, 'a shortening') is the shortening of a long vowel at the end of one word before a vowel at the beginning of the next.