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Post Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:45 pm 
 

Seems logical to me, unless I am mis-pronouncing "Achaeans" and it should be "ay KAY uns."


That's how its supposed to be, so you're mispronouncing it, at least according to my professor when I was taking "Classical Mythology." Sort of how Zeus is pronounced more like "zoos." An Odysseus is not "Oh dis e us," but "Oh dee sues."


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Post Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:03 pm 
 

I say "ah-SEE-um," on the analogy of "encyclopaedia," "paediatrics," "archaeology," and "aetiology."   All Latin roots adoped into English.
  
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