{"id":10049,"date":"2021-07-03T17:09:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T15:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=10049"},"modified":"2022-01-22T20:00:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T19:00:14","slug":"niche-is-nice-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=10049","title":{"rendered":"Niche is nice, but &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A very niche blog post here on Greek accents (and why there are some things that, if you dont learn them as a child, you never will!) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uJMvk32bIz\">https:\/\/t.co\/uJMvk32bIz<\/a><\/p>&mdash; mary beard (@wmarybeard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wmarybeard\/status\/1411248083669749762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 3, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;unfortunately, not only niche, but abbreviated. I thought I would be granted one admittance to the <em>TLS<\/em> this month &#8211; but no such luck!  But, as far as I could read, the gist is; when Professor Beard was at school, girls were taught Ancient Greek without accents &#8211; pondering the rationale (!) behind that is really interesting indeed! Mind you, it didn&#8217;t do Mary&#8217;s brilliant career much harm; or maybe it did force the direction &#8211;  after all, her specialisation did become that of the Romans and Latin does not have (at least not in written text) those pesky <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greek_diacritics#Breathings\" target=\"_blank\">diacritical marks of Greek<\/a>. And she does say, that to this very day, she feels somehow deprived, and is adamant it is a technique that must be learnt from the git go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where I am concerned, the truth of course is &#8211; with or without (accents) &#8211; it remains all Greek to me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not wasted though was this return visit to <em>Twitter<\/em>, for I picked up mention of a very new site, called <em>Antigone<\/em>, dedicated to making Classics accessible to a greater audience. A quick browse through suggests lots of good reading, and they are even able to offer help for those (like Mary!) struggling with accents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tricky, niche, beset by questions of gender in education?  There&#39;s lots one might say about ancient Greek accents. We at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AntigoneJournal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AntigoneJournal<\/a> recently shared an article summarising the main rules governing their use. Here it is! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EAUiHOvnGG\">https:\/\/t.co\/EAUiHOvnGG<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Antigone Journal (@AntigoneJournal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AntigoneJournal\/status\/1411315546168217605?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 3, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;unfortunately, not only niche, but abbreviated. I thought I would be granted one admittance to the TLS this month &#8211; but no such luck! But, as far as I could read, the gist is; when Professor Beard was at school, girls were taught Ancient Greek without accents &#8211; pondering the rationale (!) behind that is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=10049\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Niche is nice, but &#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,235,8],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-10049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classics","category-education","category-greece","tag-mary-beard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10049"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12286,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10049\/revisions\/12286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}