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?
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.
I find the pre-christian era so refreshing.
ReplyDeleteCam ~ It's the only world that makes sense to me now.
ReplyDeleteHow 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?
ReplyDeleteIt's rather simple to understand, DEK: Christ completed paganism. Naturally, it stopped existing.
ReplyDeleteIt's never enough until your heart stops beating.
ReplyDeleteἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ πλάγχθη, ἐπεὶ Τροίης ἱερὸν πτολίεθρον ἔπερσεν· πολλῶν δ᾽ ἀνθρώπων ἴδεν ἄστεα καὶ νόον ...
ReplyDeleteNever has the journey to "know thself" as written in the temple of Apollo at Delphi , has been approached in a more eloquent beautiful manner
ReplyDeletekaraoulis: Today, of course, the man of many wiles would be dodging extradition or in jail.
ReplyDeleteOn 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.
Simon ~ Au contraire, rather he did away with and desecrated what was natural to Europeans. Asa of Judah would be envious.
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