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In the translation, I had difficulty with lines 193-4. I understand it’s something about leaves on the ground (appropriate for this season!), but I just can’t seem to put all of the words together.
To echo Midori’s post, I, too, was amused […]
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Published by Erin October 9th, 2006 in Homeric World, Translation and Themes in ODYSSEY. 4 CommentsSmidges of Irrationality In Odysseus
Published by Midori September 24th, 2006 in Odysseus and Themes in ODYSSEY. 1 Comment
From our English readings of Book I to X and our Greek translations of portions of Book X and XI, I think it is safe to say that Odysseus is the epitome of what human rationality should aspire to, at least by ancient Greek/Homeric standards. While his men cower in ignorance, he tends to them […]
When we were reading the Iliad for our previous Greek class the last semester, I had been initially surprised that Iris was often than not sent to provide messages to mortals and to other gods; I had thought that Hermes would have played a larger role in the carrying of messages.
Now that we are reading the Odyssey, […]
Here is the Wikipedia.org link to the myth I thought related to willows, but evidently they turned into an oak and a linden tree (is there some connotations with those types of trees the way willows and poplars are with death?):
Link: Baucis and Philemon
Though there is no connection to willows, I think that the myth […]
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