Thursday, June 27, 2013
Pronouncing Eta as Iota at Pompeii (79 CE)
Itacism, that is, the pronunciation of the Greek eta and of the various diphthongs with iota uniformly as i, and the trimming down of endings in -ius or -ios to -is, are quite general phenomena and recur, for example, in Pompeii. [Hermann Vogelstein, Rome p. 41]
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dating back to conversations with his grandfather, Gaston Frank. "He said we represent one of the last descendants of the Frankist Jewish faith in the world," he muses. "I grew up thinking that our family was something like the Last of the Mohicans."