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Anna Coluthon
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Hallo, Everyone!

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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 :D , 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 :lol:

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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ha, your username is great.
glad to see you're into prosody. do you compose in latin or greek, prose or verse?

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Anna Coluthon wrote:I have just commenced reading Homer's Odyssey, arguably for the second time since I did take Homer in college :D , and am wrestling with the production of a really thorough metrical analysis of, like, the whole poem, for no particularly good reason.
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. :)

I agree with whiteoctave. Cute name.
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c.u.u.
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Episcopus wrote:Anna Coulthon, is that not your real name then?
anacoluthon n: an abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to another
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:oops: Coulthon sounded like a real name. Anacoluthon not so much. Does any one have an example?

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Welcome Anna. Steer clear of Episcopus ;)
Episcopus wrote::oops: 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?
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Episcopus wrote: You should probably ignore all I have said :)
Well... I'll be!
Sometimes he does make sense.

Wellcome to you oh 'an abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to another' (now that's a mouth full to have as name)

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Post by Anna Coluthon »

Delighted to make your collective acquaintance! :D

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? :lol:

--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 :P

Cheers! Happy to be here :D

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Hi Anne, and welcome to Textkit!

I've translated the Apologia in school and read Plato's Republic in English, but the Odyssey is better :P .

Cicero and Caeser make me sick though (well Caeser certainly did).
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Anna Coluthon wrote: --oh oh oh! I am SO there for the Odyssey reading group! Thanks!!
There'll be an announcement with links for joining up, etc., in a few days.
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