19 March 2013

"And my heart laugh’d within me —."

Homer, Odyssey bk. IX.413 (Loeb ed., pp. 346–47)

9 comments:

Cameron said...

I find the pre-christian era so refreshing.

Laguna Beach Fogey said...

Cam ~ It's the only world that makes sense to me now.

DEK said...

How was it that the admirable enterprise of paganism could be swept away by an event so obscure that it could fairly be asked if it had actually happened?

Simon said...

It's rather simple to understand, DEK: Christ completed paganism. Naturally, it stopped existing.

Anonymous said...

It's never enough until your heart stops beating.

karaoulis said...

ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ πλάγχθη, ἐπεὶ Τροίης ἱερὸν πτολίεθρον ἔπερσεν· πολλῶν δ᾽ ἀνθρώπων ἴδεν ἄστεα καὶ νόον ...

karaoulis said...

Never has the journey to "know thself" as written in the temple of Apollo at Delphi , has been approached in a more eloquent beautiful manner

DEK said...

karaoulis: Today, of course, the man of many wiles would be dodging extradition or in jail.

On a purely tangential matter, I dropped the opening line of the Odyssey into the gaping maw of Google Translate and -- after disabusing it of its original impression that the text was in Italian -- it rendered up this translation:

"men ennepe me, muse, multimodal, nd many mala planchthi after Troy sacred ptoliethron epersen; many d iden funny man and learned"

It would appear that Google is not yet ready completely to replace an education.

Cyprian Korzeniowski said...

Simon ~ Au contraire, rather he did away with and desecrated what was natural to Europeans. Asa of Judah would be envious.