Whatever the “greek” accent was 3200 years ago? I have no idea what was, but I know it was/is nothing like the greek accent of today.
Holyhell the “Greek Accent” of today is nothing like what it was 100 years ago…
Finally if Greece is anything like the US and Britain (the two places where I am familiar with accents )there is no such thing as A Greek accent. Hell I will wager there are 100s if not 1000 greek accents.
The choice is a striking departure from the unwritten Hollywood rule of characters in historical epics employing British accents — from The Ten Commandments to Ben-Hur to Gladiator to HBO’s Rome. Obviously, The Odyssey characters speaking the various dialects of Homeric Greek, Attic and Hellenistic Koine wouldn’t make for a very accessible film. But the modern British accent is traditionally considered universally pleasing and “just foreign enough” to convey a timeless quality (even though it’s only existed in its current form for 250 years or so).
The trope is so consistent and familiar that even fantasy shows set in other worlds, like Game of Thrones, use British accents. In perhaps the most amusing example of Brit bias, the English accent was used in HBO’s 1980s-set Chernobyl rather than subjecting viewers to five hours of Russian accents (the limited series’ director, Johan Renck, rather bluntly explained, “[The Russian] accent on film is tremendously stupid”).
As opposed to what?
Whatever the “greek” accent was 3200 years ago? I have no idea what was, but I know it was/is nothing like the greek accent of today.
Holyhell the “Greek Accent” of today is nothing like what it was 100 years ago…
Finally if Greece is anything like the US and Britain (the two places where I am familiar with accents )there is no such thing as A Greek accent. Hell I will wager there are 100s if not 1000 greek accents.
This is just rage baiting.
These mfers want a hard “Hark!’ and maybe a couple"Tallyho”
“Malaka”!
Στην υγειά σου.
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