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
–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