[Other] Greek - The first lines of Odyssey

[katerina]

Ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, Μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὅς μάλα πολλὰ
πλάγχθη, ἐπεὶ Τροίης ἱερὸν πτολίεθρον ἔπερσεν·
πολλῶν δ' ἀνθρώπων ἴδεν ἄστεα καὶ νόον ἔγνω,
πολλὰ δ' ὅ γ' ἐν πόντῳ πάθεν ἄλγεα ὃν κατὰ θυμόν,
ἀρνύμενος ἥν τε ψυχὴν καὶ νόστον ἑταίρων.
ἀλλ' οὐδ' ὣς ἑτάρους ἐρρύσατο, ἱέμενός περ·
αὐτῶν γὰρ σφετέρῃσιν ἀτασθαλίῃσιν ὄλοντο...
"..The outline of the Odyssey is given in the first ten lines, and the first word indicates its chief theme, "a man." andra
This is the original text with the ancient spelling.
The same text (again in classical Greek) is presented also without accents. The modern Greek keep the alphabet almost untouched ,but not the accents. The spelling has been simplified (not much) although there is a strong debate over more simplification. Personally (and not only me) I do not agree since , any further simplification is threatening the historical background of the language.
Maybe it;s exactly that feature, that "bothers" ......
As to the translation ,or for further reading and textual analysis you may visit the site Linguistics Research Center (classical Greek on line) University of Texas Austin.
I hope it doesn;t look very ..Greek to you