Non Homerus, sed Euripides!

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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.

[satakieli.livejournal.com]

Speaking of classic kid's lit, I still do want to read your paper on pseudo-sibling romance in Five Little Peppers, Jack and Jill, and The Wide, Wide World, if I may... but I haven't finished the latter yet. It's on my shelf waiting for me to get past my irritation with the first little bit. (My mother had a spare copy lying around that she was happy to loan me open-endedly last Christmas. Perhaps I would have read it by now if the loan had been a little less open-ended.)