Comments on: Behold the Man http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/2007/07/30/behold-the-man/ Making and Thinking About Visual Art Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:18:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/2007/07/30/behold-the-man/comment-page-1/#comment-11445 David Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:42:34 +0000 http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/2007/07/30/behold-the-man/#comment-11445 <p>Clark,</p> <p>I'm not a scholar either, but my understanding is that the classical Latin pronunciation of Caesar is "kaisar," not "seesar." English speakers don't pronounce it the way the Romans did. They had no concept that "ce" is pronounced as an "s."</p> Clark,

I’m not a scholar either, but my understanding is that the classical Latin pronunciation of Caesar is “kaisar,” not “seesar.” English speakers don’t pronounce it the way the Romans did. They had no concept that “ce” is pronounced as an “s.”

]]> By: clark Culp http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/2007/07/30/behold-the-man/comment-page-1/#comment-11444 clark Culp Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:04:06 +0000 http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/2007/07/30/behold-the-man/#comment-11444 <p>I'm certainly no Latin scholar; I have enough trouble with my native American English, but isn't Caesar pronounced with a soft "C"?</p> I’m certainly no Latin scholar; I have enough trouble with my native American English, but isn’t Caesar pronounced with a soft “C”?

]]> By: David http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/2007/07/30/behold-the-man/comment-page-1/#comment-5864 David Sat, 04 Aug 2007 15:45:29 +0000 http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/2007/07/30/behold-the-man/#comment-5864 <p>Thanks, N.L.</p> <p>The Roman Empire in the early 1st century was a big place and I'm sure there were lots of regional accents. It just seemed silly to hear Medieval Church Latin in a movie that takes the trouble to have the actors speak Latin in the first place. Obviously, I'm being very self-indulgent in my pedantry here.</p> Thanks, N.L.

The Roman Empire in the early 1st century was a big place and I’m sure there were lots of regional accents. It just seemed silly to hear Medieval Church Latin in a movie that takes the trouble to have the actors speak Latin in the first place. Obviously, I’m being very self-indulgent in my pedantry here.

]]> By: N. L. White http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/2007/07/30/behold-the-man/comment-page-1/#comment-5796 N. L. White Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:06:18 +0000 http://rourkevisualart.com/wordpress/2007/07/30/behold-the-man/#comment-5796 <p>According to High School Latin and my Latin Dictionary you are correct. No soft "c" sound in what is considered true Latin pronunciation. However, there is much of Latin pronunciation that has been left to it's educated scholors to determine from history as the language itself has not lasted in spoken form outside of some church denominations which as you pointed out have taken liberties with it themselves.</p> According to High School Latin and my Latin Dictionary you are correct. No soft “c” sound in what is considered true Latin pronunciation. However, there is much of Latin pronunciation that has been left to it’s educated scholors to determine from history as the language itself has not lasted in spoken form outside of some church denominations which as you pointed out have taken liberties with it themselves.

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