Learn Ancient Greek: Introduction to Accents [SUB ESP]

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.

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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