First posted on my classics blog, Memento, on 6 May 2015.
Most people today who encounter the Iliad and the Odyssey encounter them as books:
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Friday 16 October 2015
The Indo-Europeans and PIE
First published on my classics blog, Memento, on 9 November 2014.
You don't have to have spent long learning Latin and Greek before you realise that the languages are related somehow. It doesn't take a genius to work out that fero, fers, fert is related to phero, phereis, pherei ("bear, carry").
You don't have to have spent long learning Latin and Greek before you realise that the languages are related somehow. It doesn't take a genius to work out that fero, fers, fert is related to phero, phereis, pherei ("bear, carry").
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Aulus Gellius and obeying your father
First posted on my classics blog, Memento, on 11 October 2014.
Aulus Gellius (flourished 2nd century AD) was a Roman judge and writer who deserves to be better known than he is. He compiled a large collection of literary, historical and philosophical trivia known as the Attic Nights (he chose the name because he composed the collection during winter nights in Attica in Greece). It's fascinating stuff if you happen to be interested in the peculiarities of Roman culture.
Aulus Gellius (flourished 2nd century AD) was a Roman judge and writer who deserves to be better known than he is. He compiled a large collection of literary, historical and philosophical trivia known as the Attic Nights (he chose the name because he composed the collection during winter nights in Attica in Greece). It's fascinating stuff if you happen to be interested in the peculiarities of Roman culture.
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Eurycleia the slave - An interesting passage from the Odyssey
First posted on my classics blog, Memento, on 21 September 2014.
In this post, I want to look at an interesting passage from the first book of Homer's Odyssey.
The "he" in the passage is the hero Odysseus' son, Telemachus. At this point, Telemachus is living in Odysseus' palace and waiting for his father's long-delayed return from the Trojan War. Laertes is Odysseus' old father, who is now living in retirement:
In this post, I want to look at an interesting passage from the first book of Homer's Odyssey.
The "he" in the passage is the hero Odysseus' son, Telemachus. At this point, Telemachus is living in Odysseus' palace and waiting for his father's long-delayed return from the Trojan War. Laertes is Odysseus' old father, who is now living in retirement:
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classical literature,
history
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