Why don't we each take a book and do a commentary on it that others can then respond to. Just to get things going, I will take Book 1 and have a commentary...
jacostopoulo@...
Dec 1, 2000 1:51 pm
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Dear List Members ... I did about 16 books of the Odyssey a long time ago on this list, line-by-line. The problem is that no one else did anything, because it ...
Kalev Pehme
pehme@...
Dec 1, 2000 2:28 pm
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Stephen, how does one subscribe to Iliad_and_odyssey@...? [LRF] Go to: http://iliad_and_odyssey.listbot.com/ Lancelot Fletcher, President The Free...
Lancelot R. Fletcher
lrf@...
Dec 1, 2000 2:39 pm
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Hi, I dont know how we will meet. But the idea sounds great. We need to discuss the details. Dimitri...
Dimit94844@...
Dec 1, 2000 5:20 pm
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Stephen, how does one subscribe to Iliad_and_odyssey@...? I think you just send an Emil to subscribe to Iliad_and_odyssey@... or try and go...
ssavage846@...
Dec 1, 2000 5:54 pm
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For anybody interested I saw on the amazon.com sight (I mention that because I havn't been able to order it from any brick and mortar bookstores) a one-volume...
shoutking shoutking
shoutking@...
Dec 17, 2000 11:54 am
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... [snip] I have the original Princeton Bollingen Series XLI that has published by Pantheon in two volumes, the Iliad and then the Odyssey with the lesser ...
Kalev Pehme
pehme@...
Dec 17, 2000 12:37 pm
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This is from someone who won't tell you to go read Greek. I don't read Greek. (I suspect people who do read the particular kind of Greek the Homeric epics...
caroline78@...
Dec 17, 2000 2:05 pm
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Caroline writes: [snip] ... [snip] I, too, love Pope's translations in heroic couplets. No one has ever managed this form better in English, not even...
Kalev Pehme
pehme@...
Dec 17, 2000 2:28 pm
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Agree, agree, agree... One thing though, the Golding translation of Ovid's METAMORPHOSES is back in print. It was published this past year by Paul Dry Books...
caroline78@...
Dec 17, 2000 11:28 pm
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... Egads, that was the edition that I had (and sorrowfully lost) back in about 1966 when I wasin high school. I just bought a copy from Amazon. Thanks for the...
Kalev Pehme
pehme@...
Dec 18, 2000 1:18 am
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A young person asked me who was at fault for starting the Trojan War. Then he went on to suggest it was Homer because he thought that maybe Homer had made it...
caroline78@...
Dec 20, 2000 5:56 am
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... Well, yes, of course, but Ate's apple could not have been thrown without the marriage of Cadmus and Harmonie, and that would not have happened unless...
Kalev Pehme
pehme@...
Dec 20, 2000 1:42 pm
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I'd like to put in a word for the very crisp prose translations by the 19th century French poet Leconte Delisle. Available only in French, as far as I know,...
Hugh Clayton
hugh_clayton@...
Dec 28, 2000 2:38 pm
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Just to make a post here in the year 2001 I will just mention that after recently completing the ODYSSEY in Pope's translation I am now in the sixth book of...
caroline78@...
Jan 11, 2001 2:41 am
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Describe_Adonis [New SONNET Group!] Hello there, folks! I have just started up a new moderated poetry group called, Describe_Adonis [Guess who wrote this!] ...
vallance2@...
Mar 2, 2001 3:46 am
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Iliassia I [being lines 1-21 of Book 1 of the Iliad] Sing, oh goddess, I... Listen! Achille's stubborn rage has rained woes on the Achaeans, from dusky...
vallance2@...
Mar 2, 2001 3:46 am
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Describe Adonis Epistle to William Shakespeare, From his loyal Friend, Harry Devonshire, Esq. "Describe Adonis, if thou will". I dared some puffs at my new...
vallance2@...
Mar 2, 2001 3:44 pm
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II [being lines 22-38 of Book 1 of the Iliad] All the Danaans stood then to praise the seer, all eyes on his glimmering ransom. Fuming, Agamemnon stepped up,...
vallance2@...
Mar 4, 2001 8:39 am
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Please Take note of my newest Group on Smart Groups in the UK, Illiasia [Homer's Iliad] http://vallance3.ipfox.com/ is dedicated to the great spirit and...
vallance2@...
Apr 9, 2001 4:22 am
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Dear Moderator (& interested Members) of Homer I am sending you this e-mail, because I believe that you personally would most probably be interested in at...
vallance2@...
May 10, 2001 3:20 pm
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Hello! I just started reading the Iliad as part of a personal quest to read all the literature I didn't get to read in college. I'm an M.A. in English and I...
Jo Ann Hinkle
joann@...
Jun 13, 2001 6:52 am
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... Funny thing about human nature, albeit the emotions and feelings in Homer seem much more real than ours, as ours are, after all, sorry copies of the ...
Icastes
pehme@...
Jun 15, 2001 2:06 pm
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... Hi, there, Joanne! I just happened to get a cc. copy of your message to: homer@yahoogroups.com and I though you might also be interested in having a look...
Richard Vallance
vallance2@...
Jun 15, 2001 5:58 pm
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Aren't we going a bit overboard, Richard? The Phoenicians influenced the Greek alphabet, that's common knowledge. Just look at the first two letters. Homer is...
cathy schmick
nimuesprite@...
Jun 17, 2001 3:05 am
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... Hardly. There is an interplay between the two eras, though more fundamental cruxes are best understood as having the past filtered through his present, ...
aruftu@...
Jun 17, 2001 3:16 am
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I disagree. The armour, the shields, the funerals are mycenean, not "dark age." ... Hardly. There is an interplay between the two eras, though more...
cathy schmick
nimuesprite@...
Jun 17, 2001 4:53 am
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... look at the first two letters. Are you sure it's not the other way around? ... counting, which was basically Sumerian and from other parts of the Semitic ...
i.s.
podium_arts@...
Jun 17, 2001 12:01 pm
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... Just look at the first two letters. ... For what it's worth, I found this bit of info in one of my books. Now I'm not a linguistics expert, but this is...
Jo Ann Hinkle
joann@...
Jun 17, 2001 1:42 pm
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... Well, yes, this is all very important, but it lacks the most important part. It was Cadmus who brought the Phoenician alphabet to the illiterate Greeks as...
