Excited to be crossing the shining ocean in March to Mobile, AL to deliver a paper on Iliad: Major Battle Episodes and Structure. It’s a bit old school, so will be interested to see how it goes down at CAMWS2026…
#iliad #classicsbluesky
I know nothing about the subject, but…would sacrifice generally need to be of something alive, and a fish out of water would already be dead, so unless the sacrifice is conducted under water it wouldn’t work? Can one sacrifice a corpse?
If only she’d wailed <oimoi talaina> instead of that visceral shrieking into the well…
Opportunity missed 🙂
Same. Made me realise I should have chosen Greek rather than German to study at age 14 (Greek and Latin included literature, German and French just language, and Aen II was one of the texts). That led to summer vacation Greek cramming and eventually Classics rather than Modern Langs at uni.
I bet it’s brekekekek koax koax 🙂
A whole series beckons (albeit a short one)… pi for maths types, delta for change managers, alpha and omega for theologians. Must be some others too…
Not sure this counts as a fun design being way too easy, but… a nice big simple capital lambda for the often maligned Lakedaimonians 🙂
At home to Weymouth in the next round
3-0 to the Romans! 👏
Disappointingly it’s Christchurch FC
I reckon “Romanes eunt domus” is more likely 🙂
My paperback Lattimore translation finally gave up the ghost after nearly 40 years’ service. Pleased to report that it broke at Book 16. #Iliad #classicsbluesky
Paestum…wonderful site, particularly liked the fact that it has retained its Latin name, rather than becoming Pesto 🙂
3/n:
We can’t now access the tree, but by considering its image we can say interesting things about the tree, while recognising that discussion of the tree requires significant, speculative leaps. By contrast we’re on solid ground in talking about the image of the tree - in the end we have the text.
2/n:
The fixer of the text (Homer, if you will) inevitably, like any painter, interpreted the object before him (tree/oral epic) i.e. made decisions about how to depict it, what would be included in or omitted from the canvas/text etc.
Really enjoyed the book, thank you 👏
Love the tree analogy but have something to say about it that will require >1 comment 🙂
Here’s 1/n:
The Iliad as we have it today is less a tree, more an image of a tree. The development of our Iliad was halted at the time its text was (more or less) fixed.
Imperialists’ motto always and everywhere: Think local, act global.
Just putting in a word for Alcaeus on the last one 🙂
I was a repeat attender in the 80s - beginners to get me ready to do O level in one year, intermediate to get me ready to do A level in one year, advanced just because I loved it!
Part of my Head of Classics’ not so subtle plan to steer me away from modern languages and onto the true path ❤️
Took me 30+ years to get round to reading it, but James Redfield, Tragedy of Hector: Nature & Culture in the Iliad. Loved its simplicity and clarity compared to the complexity and obscurity that seems to me to be a feature of a lot of Homeric scholarship.
Feeble joke for y’all…
What’s Homer’s favourite Christmas decoration…? 🤔
#homer
#ClassicsBlueSky
Wherever and whenever the Iliad was first being performed in something like the form we have it today….assuming that’s at least 2,500 years ago….
Might answer a few questions 👀
No, not heard of him, thanks. I’ll have a look 👍🏼
Am trying sthg ambitious - re-researching my 1989 undergrad thesis on Iliadic battle episodes to re-write so it’s fit for journal peer review. Not found much on battle scenes yet. Fenik & Krischer are great, but….a bit past their sell by dates. Grateful for any recommends! TY
#ClassicsBlueSky
#Iliad
kleos aphthiton
Apollo for me - insight, coolness under pressure and ruthlessness
Highly recommend Emily Wilson’s translation - it really zips along 👍🏼
Hmmm, tempted to say <yarn> rhymes with <scone> but that would be a straight up lie… 🙂
Just consulting a daughter who knows way more about linguistics than I
…but Irish English isn’t much spoken there to be fair…
