Non Homerus, sed Euripides!

[timeripple]

We’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?

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[satakieli.livejournal.com]

Huh. I've never heard of it. Clearly need to brush up on my classic kid's lit. But perhaps it won't be as fun without the Greek knowledge base.

[timeripple.livejournal.com]

It's not her most famous novel, but I believe it was a bestseller back in the day. Dense as it is, I'm enjoying it. And they don't talk about Greek that much. ;)