19 March 2013

"And my heart laugh’d within me —."

— Homer, Odyssey bk. IX.413 (Loeb ed., pp. 346–47)
Posted by Laguna Beach Fogey at 19:45

9 comments:

Cameron said...

I find the pre-christian era so refreshing.

20 March, 2013 03:32
Laguna Beach Fogey said...

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

20 March, 2013 21:26
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?

21 March, 2013 04:29
Simon said...

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

21 March, 2013 15:38
Anonymous said...

It's never enough until your heart stops beating.

22 March, 2013 09:02
karaoulis said...

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

23 March, 2013 08:25
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

23 March, 2013 08:28
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.

23 March, 2013 11:43
Cyprian Korzeniowski said...

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

23 March, 2013 19:37

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