#wfugreek

[latinthusiast]

t-14 minutes to defense

oh man. oh man. oh man i am gonna defend my thesis. oh man. 

oh man. well what could go wrong.... i’m a latin major with a latin thesis in greek. this is gonna be great.

[latinthusiast]

οὐ τοὺς κρατοῦντας χρὴ κρατεῖν ἃ μὴ χρεὼν οὐδ' εὐτυχοῦντας εὖ δοκεῖν πράξειν ἀεί

Euripides, Hecuba 282-3

i mean, you know what they say about τυχή...

it isn't necessary for the powerful to excercise power in those things which aren't right, nor for the lucky to consider it good to do so (that is, be successful) all the time.

[latinthusiast]

Thesaurus Linguae Grecae appreciation post

because it makes digging deep into Greek texts so much more doable. 

[latinthusiast]

thesis milestone

got through my first translation of De Imitatione!

much editing to be done. also, much commentary to be written.

[latinthusiast]

σφαίρῃ δηὖτέ με πορφυρῇ βάλλων χρυσοκόμης Ἔρως νήνι ποικιλοσαμβάλῳ συμπαίζειν προκαλεῖται• ἡ δ', ἐστὶν γὰρ ἀπ' εὐκτίτου Λέσβου, τὴν μὲν ἐμὴν κόμην, λευκὴ γάρ, καταμέμφεται, πρὸς δ' ἄλλην τινὰ χάσκει.

Anacreon 358 (as Campbell numbers them)

Now golden-haired Eros, striking me

again with the purple orb

calls to the girl with mottled sandals

                to play;

and she, since she is

from well-furnished Lesbos,

finds fault with my hair,

for it is white, gapes

              at another woman.

(translation my own)

[latinthusiast]

πόλλ' οἶδ' ἁλωπηξ, ἀλλ' ἐχῖνος ἓν μέγα.

Archilochus 103

The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog one big thing.

[latinthusiast]

thesis update

So maybe I don't hate research at all and I just need someone helpful to keep me pointed in the right direction.

We've been discussing Plato and rhetoric and body metaphor and ethics and physics and metaphysics and

this is why I love studying classics because it is, without exaggeration, all of the things. 

Ahead this week, I begin reading Περὶ μιμήσεως (in Greek!).

[latinthusiast]

Greek is sometimes really a joke

HAHA THIS WORD IS FOUR VOWELS (one is a diphthong) AND ONE CONSONANT LOL 

ἐείσαο

from a normal word.

goddammit greeks, how did you ever distinguish these things in real life. furthermore, why.