Hallo, Everyone!
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Hallo, Everyone!
I stumbled upon this marvelous website and these forums yesterday and can't tell you how pleased I am to have found y'all!
I have just commenced reading Homer's Odyssey, arguably for the second time since I did take Homer in college , and am wrestling with the production of a really thorough metrical analysis of, like, the whole poem, for no particularly good reason.
I'm guessing that I don't need to mention that I'm a geek
Unfortunately, I am a prosodically challenged geek, er, enthusiast, and will undoubtedly tax the patience of all and sundry with my questions.
I'm glad to be here and hope I will be able to give Greek and Latin help as well as beg for it
I have just commenced reading Homer's Odyssey, arguably for the second time since I did take Homer in college , and am wrestling with the production of a really thorough metrical analysis of, like, the whole poem, for no particularly good reason.
I'm guessing that I don't need to mention that I'm a geek
Unfortunately, I am a prosodically challenged geek, er, enthusiast, and will undoubtedly tax the patience of all and sundry with my questions.
I'm glad to be here and hope I will be able to give Greek and Latin help as well as beg for it
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Re: Hallo, Everyone!
Next month we will be starting an Odyssey reading group. We'll be starting in on Book 1, and will go through to the end. It may take a few years.Anna Coluthon wrote:I have just commenced reading Homer's Odyssey, arguably for the second time since I did take Homer in college , and am wrestling with the production of a really thorough metrical analysis of, like, the whole poem, for no particularly good reason.
I agree with whiteoctave. Cute name.
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anacoluthon n: an abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to anotherEpiscopus wrote:Anna Coulthon, is that not your real name then?
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Welcome Anna. Steer clear of Episcopus
Episcopus wrote: Coulthon sounded like a real name. Anacoluthon not so much. Does any one have an example?
www.dictionary.com wrote:I warned him that if he continues to drink, what will become of him?
flebile nescio quid queritur lyra, flebile lingua murmurat exanimis, respondent flebile ripae
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Delighted to make your collective acquaintance!
In order:
--haven't composed anything in meter actually (limericks excepted) (and that was a long time ago)
--oh oh oh! I am SO there for the Odyssey reading group! Thanks!!
--erm, I answer to Anne and sudden departures--does anyone here ever read Plato, by the way?--are an avocation.
I also love to pour over lists of rhetorical figures and gleefully mouth them to myself. Doesn't aposiopesis sound like something you should treat with antibiotic ointment?
--my cat is named Terwilliger, thank you very much. My daughter is named Flufflles
For my money, composing in the style of Cicero, even for Cicero, is exponentially geekier than Caesar
Cheers! Happy to be here
In order:
--haven't composed anything in meter actually (limericks excepted) (and that was a long time ago)
--oh oh oh! I am SO there for the Odyssey reading group! Thanks!!
--erm, I answer to Anne and sudden departures--does anyone here ever read Plato, by the way?--are an avocation.
I also love to pour over lists of rhetorical figures and gleefully mouth them to myself. Doesn't aposiopesis sound like something you should treat with antibiotic ointment?
--my cat is named Terwilliger, thank you very much. My daughter is named Flufflles
For my money, composing in the style of Cicero, even for Cicero, is exponentially geekier than Caesar
Cheers! Happy to be here
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There'll be an announcement with links for joining up, etc., in a few days.Anna Coluthon wrote: --oh oh oh! I am SO there for the Odyssey reading group! Thanks!!
William S. Annis — http://www.aoidoi.org/ — http://www.scholiastae.org/
τίς πατέρ' αἰνήσει εἰ μὴ κακοδαίμονες υἱοί;
τίς πατέρ' αἰνήσει εἰ μὴ κακοδαίμονες υἱοί;