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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1899196, member: 19463&quot;]I will continue to maintain that you can not pronounce any language, let alone a &#039;dead&#039; one, without details as to where and when you define as the standard.&nbsp; Do you really think the Greek of Athens in the time of Pericles matched the Greek of Alexandria under Diocletian?&nbsp; Today on Earth we have examples of English and other languages with enough variations that the speakers have trouble understanding each other.&nbsp; How many dialectic variances do you think a world without electronic communications developed over a couple thousand years?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I recall somewhere there is a mention that Septimius Severus spoke Latin with a serious accent and Julia Domna did not speak it at all (preferring Greek).&nbsp; The concept of &#039;correct&#039; pronunciation and spelling is somewhat new to English.&nbsp; I&#039;ll need to see evidence that it existed in the distant past beyond local populations and for time beyond a few generations.&nbsp;&nbsp; You might prove how Cicero would have said it but take care not to force that on Constantine or Romulus.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, on what evidence do you base the accepted rules?&nbsp; In some cases I see good hints in transliterations between Greek and Latin like the use of OY (ooweh) to start names starting with V in Latin.&nbsp; How has a reference that does not just give the rules but that explains how the rules were formulated?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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