@lexicon_gr Πάντα νόμιζα είχε σχέση με το λατ. cura (= φροντίζω) και νόμιζα σήμαινε "βάζω κάποιον σε φροντίδες, ταλαιπωρώ κάποιον με έγνοιες". Πολύ ενδιαφέρον, ευχαριστούμε.
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Η αρχική σημασία της λ. κουράζω ήταν «τιμωρώ με καταναγκαστικό κούρεμα»
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@IchbinHussite @utilitaryan you have to consider how much of their essays are "shitposting" in the sense of less polemic attitude and more of a projection of their rhetorical talent. I believe most of Plut. essays on philosophical doctrines (Epicureans, Stoics) are of the same nature.
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@utilitaryan I like that these guys would take some time off from serious debates to just shitpost on occasion.
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Dio Chrysostom wrote a praise of hair in the 1st century. Three centuries later, Norwood patriot Synesius answered with his own “Eulogy of Baldness”, arguing that hairiness correlates with stupidity, whilst bald heads are geometric perfections and baldness itself a form of purity
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Greek only group chat. Let me know who would like in.
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Το furries το μετέφρασαν ως θηριανοί; Ωραίο, θα το υιοθετήσω.
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Dion Chrysostom, 7.116 "Euboicus"
I'd like an opinion from my fellow classicists, certainly better than I, today in class we discussed at length whether Dion is implicitly attributing this verse of the Msrgites to Hesiod, despite knowing (Disc.53)it was a homeric work. Thoughts?
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@cor_marine Most AG editions in Greece come with a translation. Teubner and other stereotype editions are hard to get. I personally don't think he knows a bit of AG, but there are better ways to pull this.
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@God12Lil it's plainly embarrassing to say that youre reading from the original text but nonetheless read with a translation
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you can't say this and post an image of you reading a bilingual translation with homer on one page and modern greek on another
Homer Pavlos@HomerPavlos
Here I am, reading Homer’s Odyssey directly from the Greek text and thinking about how much Christopher Nolan disrespected us. Don’t pay for the movie. Resist this slowly dying agenda that is rotting our societies. Hollywood is dead.
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in which we try, but fail, to find an answer :( :( :(
Ye Olde Philologer Cokedril@PhiloCrocodile
@theo_nash oh who/what are real classicists?
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@sentantiq The matter dissolved after Parry and Analytics are still in shambles.
Schadenwaldt believes it since having a poet has the interpretative value of emulation. A "Homer" did exist. It used to be important for the sole reason that ph*lologists tried to disprove his existence.
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@God12Lil no in about a thousand ways but that's less important than it used to be
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well, it's complicated.
on the one hand, no we shouldn't obsess over translator's chocies
on the other, the oral tradition has been a more or less fixed text for 2000 years
Jared Henderson@jhendersonYT
If we assume the Odyssey was not the work of one person, but rather an oral tradition that would change the story across tellings (which I think is a widely held view in classics?), then should we obsess over the specific choices of a translator?
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@mimiche1er @sentantiq It's not, even in this context. It does not do justice to the formulaic πολύμητις. I personally wouldn't go into a ramble about how "it's the worst thing ever", but then again I don't see a point defending it either. Modesty is key.
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@God12Lil @sentantiq "Lying", in this context, is in fact a good translation of "πολύμητις". You may not like it, you may prefer other translations, but still it is a good translation.
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As if at 24.303-304, πολύμητις and ἀτρεκέως weren't working as an obvious antithesis
Johannes A. Niederhauser@JohannesAchill
Probably the most outrageous mistranslation by Emily Wilson is found in Book XXIV, line 303. Wilson translates: "Lying Odysseus replied, 'I will tell you the truth completely.'" Wilson misrepresents the meaning of πολύμητις. Murray for example translates this as "of many wiles", which is also a bit misleading. But to translate πολύμητις as lying is outright evil. πολύμητις is reminiscent of πολύτροπον in Book I, line 1. πολύμητις means to be thoughtful, circumspect, in many ways and in this way cunning.
John Malala on Helen of Troy.
«Helen was well grown, with a good figure and good breasts; she was white as snow, with good eyebrows, a good nose, good features, curly fairish hair, and large eyes; she was charming, with a lovely voice, and was a tremendous sight among women. She was 26 years old.»
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@dominbydigdug Plato was socrates' fleshlight, and his views on sex are probably close to that of the raped.
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The bunghole brings no pleasure to its possessor in ancient Greece.
Dover, GH, p. 52.
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This will be my first time reading a Platonic text in full lmao
𝖂𝔲𝖑𝔣𝖘𝔱𝖆𝔫 ☧ 🇦🇲🇰🇿🍵@ChudNarodnik
Now starting
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This exact notion (scil. people of intellectuality not being able to perform simple tasks) was first touched upon from non other than... (*sighs*) Plato...
Alexander 𖤓 Nietzschean Vitalist@UbermenschMind
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Instead of saying “ontologically evil” people should just use another related word like “epistemologically evil” and just run with it
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Να τον έχεις κάνει φολοου για να δεις αν τελικά έριξε μουνί στην εκκλησία και αντ' αυτού να διαβάζεις θρησκευτικοεθνολογικές κρίσεις του κώλου... τραγικό farming...
Paisios@AngloVarangian
Of all muslims, I probably despise Balkan and Anatolian muslims the most, and I probably respect North Caucasus muslims the most. Two sets of muslims that just happen to be European. One I think are scum, the other I think are honorable.
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