TOPICS

Accent and Accent-Marking in Ancient Greek

Contonation and Mora

The Last 3 Syllables and the Accents
•acute
•circumflex
•grave
•ultima
•penult
•antepenult
•more examples

Proclitics

Enclitics

Multiple Clitics

Traditional Terminology

Persistent Accentuation
• a- and o-declension
• consonant declension

Recessive Accentuation

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The grave accent ( ` ) occurs only on U. What it represented in terms of pitch in classical pronunciation is uncertain. In a connected utterance, the grave replaces an acute accent over U of a word not followed by punctuation (or an enclitic).

Words in isolation:

μακρά – acute on U
ὁδός – acute on U

Words in connected utterance:

μακρὰ ἡ ὁδός.     “The road is long.” – grave used within sentence, but final acute retained before punctuation.

ἡ ὁδὸς μακρά.     “The road is long.” – grave used within sentence, but final acute retained before punctuation.