- #Metamorphoses scansion first 9 lines how to
- #Metamorphoses scansion first 9 lines full
The basic rhythmic framework of my reading has some major assumptions. It may not be necessary to be, but we’ll see. I’ve not been consistent in those decisions so far. elision, lengthening and hiatus at the caesura all require decisions about pronunciation. phrasing of enjambment and treatment of caesura seem to me to be linked. In any case, it’s linked to the next one: It may represent a useful intuition, or it may just be a bad habit. I’m averse to 4th foot caesuras, generally opting to read without pause or to pause at a weak 3rd foot word break rather than observe them. If you’ve been listening, you’ll have noticed a few things about the way I treat caesuras. Or I may need to decide if I’m reading an 8th century poem or a 3rd century text. Consistency may not be necessary, but there may be some patterns to be discovered here. The more I read, the less I pronounced them, but a few still seemed necessary. I’m inconsistent on digamma pronunciation. I’m probably also letting the stress accent come through too much. I have no plans to go full Daitz on this.
I’m getting better at the pitch accent (I think), but it would be good to do some more work on it before restarting. It still seems to me that Homer’s audience would have appreciated a little variety of pace, so I’ll see if I can revisit that. I abandoned this quickly for the sake of simplicity, and because I wasn’t happy with the way I was doing it. with a few early books of the Iliad I experimented with varying the pace of reading. 
Before I move on to the Odyssey, however, I need to meditate on some slightly less basic things, do a few experiments, and see if I can produce something a bit more sophisticated.
a tolerable effort at reconstructed pronunciation (to the extent that it exists for Homeric Greek) with a very conservative pitch accent, and with my instinctive stress accent restrained to the best of my ability. a recognizable, consistent hexameter rhythm. Accordingly I’ve tried to follow only a couple of very basic requirements: The aim so far has been to produce, in a reasonable time period, a free, accessible, spoken version, with moderately good audio quality and linked to a metrically tagged text. I think the "Golden Age" was the passage on which I learned to scan hexameters in 1961, I think.These are also posted to in various downloadable formats. i- is a consonant between vowels otherwise, it's generally (although not exclusively) treated as a vowel. You should also mark of the caesuras-have you been taught how to do that yet? If not, we'll show you how. Once you have the rhythm in your ear, it will be much easier to scan. Then read the whole passage several times, giving effect to longs and shorts, so that you get it in your ear. Once you get it right, post a translation so that we can make sure you understand it, and we'll give you some pointers on reading Latin hexameters. Once you have the whole passage scanned, post your solution, and we'll tell you whether anything is wrong.
And then take note and remember the quantities. Use a dictionary and a grammar to determine the vowel quantities you don't know off-hand. Try it again until you have the whole passage scanned.
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