Helpful reminders! I do wonder, though, about Greeks from different regions having trouble understanding each other. After all, the great sophists came to Athens from far afield in the Greek-speaking world - Gorgias of Leontini, Hippias of Elis, etc, and their students such as Meno from Thessaly - are there some texts to which you can point me, about difficulties with different accents/dialects? Thank you.
That's true. Ancient Greece was an idea. Now the greek-nation state has taken over as the most prominent of the two and it's really hard to say what constitutes a modern-day Greek. Myself as an example.
Helpful reminders! I do wonder, though, about Greeks from different regions having trouble understanding each other. After all, the great sophists came to Athens from far afield in the Greek-speaking world - Gorgias of Leontini, Hippias of Elis, etc, and their students such as Meno from Thessaly - are there some texts to which you can point me, about difficulties with different accents/dialects? Thank you.
That's true. Ancient Greece was an idea. Now the greek-nation state has taken over as the most prominent of the two and it's really hard to say what constitutes a modern-day Greek. Myself as an example.