The Greeks are really pulling ahead. Come on: Arma virumque canite!
The Greeks are really pulling ahead. Come on: Arma virumque canite!
Last edited by Charles Darnay; 10-11-2011 at 08:39 PM.
I wrote a poem on a leaf and it blew away...
Hey, why isn't the other good Roman writer on the voting list?
Are you saying there is only one other good Roman writer? Are you talking about Ovid? Because there are scores of great Roman writers, as there are Greeks.
I wrote a poem on a leaf and it blew away...
Ah ha! You knew it was Ovid!
(I'm just joking. Mostly.)
I have The Iliad sitting on my to read pile, not The Odyssey. I wish I could change my vote.
Also, I don't think Ovid is on there because there was recently a pretty active group reading of Metamorphoses.
Tired of the Odyssey. Read it last about a month ago.
Going once...
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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I can certainly handle a re-reading of the Odyssey - now which version to choose? Rieu perhaps, best Prose translation there is.
I wrote a poem on a leaf and it blew away...
Check this out. They give the first line from most of the translators.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English...tions_of_Homer
Hahahaha!
That prudent Hero's wandering, Muse, rehearse,
Who (Troy b'ing sack'd) coasting the Universe,
Those who think it's over, it isn't. It's tied, because someone who voted for Odyssey only has 15 posts.
hmm...I thought the poll automatically blocked you from voting in these cases...ah well.Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandi
I wrote a poem on a leaf and it blew away...
In the event of a tie, do we vote on a tie-breaker?
I like poetry,long walks on the beach and poking dead things with a stick.
Scheh will pick the winner.
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
Usually flip a coin but considering that we still have 24 hours to go, things might change.
Also, Mutatis is right... Votes casts by those with less than 50 posts will be disregarded.
I am excited about reading Theban Plays... Read them more than 20 years ago during my first year at university.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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It's too bad Oedipus at Colonus drags this trilogy down, but Antigone makes up for it
I wrote a poem on a leaf and it blew away...
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