Non Homerus, sed Euripides!
Sep. 28th, 2009 10:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timerippleWe’re reading Charlotte Mary Yonge’s The Daisy Chain in my Victorian children’s lit class, and I... kind of love it. I’m probably the only person in class who thinks the parts where they talk about Greek are the best bits. (And they talk about Greek a lot. XD) One of the characters has to declaim Priam's speech to Achilles during an examination. Of course I dug out Benner’s Iliad and tried to recite it myself. Scansion fail!
Oh, Greek. I better hurry up and write my weekly theme so I can translate that speech so I can talk about it in class and how it's relevent to the novel. I could just look up a translation, I guess, but it’s more... fun this way?
Oh, Greek. I better hurry up and write my weekly theme so I can translate that speech so I can talk about it in class and how it's relevent to the novel. I could just look up a translation, I guess, but it’s more... fun this way?
