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Thread #161924   Message #3852039
Posted By: DaveRo
23-Apr-17 - 02:44 PM
Thread Name: Chord Req: Oedipus Rex - Tom Lehrer
Subject: RE: Chord Req: Oedipus Rex - Tom Lehrer
More of a 'th' than a 'z' I would have thought. (BTW I read today that 'th' is disappearing from English English.)

I see that modern Greeks seem to call him 'Eethipothos' or something like that: Οιδίποδας But maybe I misunderstand that page - it's 50 years since I studied ancient Greek!

How the ancients pronounced it, who knows? How do we know that a Latin V is pronounced W?