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How do you pronounce Magaera and Tisiphone? These are the names of two of the furies in Roman mythology. I need to know for a profect. Thanks!
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I'm not positive about Megaera in Greek, but the accent is on the MEH. Tisiphone is prn. tee-see-FOH-nee in Modern Greek.
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It would be easier if you would take the time to spell out your heading, but I read your posting to see what it was about, so perhaps it is not a bad idea...
Anyway, I can tell you about how the letters would sound in Ancient Greek, though not their stresses.
Megaera would probobly have been pronounced [mɛgaira] and Tisiphone [tisiphɔnɛ:] or [tisiphɔne:], depending on the dialect.
I hope you can read my IPA transilteration, but I find it rather clumsy to attempt to render these things using our irregular English typography.
Anyway, I can tell you about how the letters would sound in Ancient Greek, though not their stresses.
Megaera would probobly have been pronounced [mɛgaira] and Tisiphone [tisiphɔnɛ:] or [tisiphɔne:], depending on the dialect.
I hope you can read my IPA transilteration, but I find it rather clumsy to attempt to render these things using our irregular English typography.
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Greek mythology. In English, we say me-GYE-ra, with the stressed syllable rhyming with eye and the others having the neutral vowel. Tisiphone is ti-SIFF-oh-nee. Might be different in Greek - probably is!
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