I'll probably only poke at for a week or two, but once June hits I'll read it closely. I've never dealt with any non-attic dialects ever, so it should prove to be interesting. Maybe start a thread here whenever you begin?
It's actually fairly interesting what translation one decides upon ultimately. They can be extremely variant, apparently. I'd be interested to see how you do a few lines every one once and a while. I'll periodically do a literal translation, followed by how it should sound in English. Mostly I just want to know the extent to which Classicists shirk from saying "fuck" and "titties". Anyway, let me know!
It's actually fairly interesting what translation one decides upon ultimately. They can be extremely variant, apparently. I'd be interested to see how you do a few lines every one once and a while. I'll periodically do a literal translation, followed by how it should sound in English. Mostly I just want to know the extent to which Classicists shirk from saying "fuck" and "titties". Anyway, let me know!
Given how much I do have, I'm likely to choose something from that. I have the Argonautica, all of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, all of Aristophanes (obviously, we're talking surviving works), the Enneads by Plotinus, some early Church Fathers (Basil, Clement, St. John Chrysostom), Ptolemy, Manetho (I like Egypt a lot), all of Plato, some assorted Aristotle, Thucydides, Herodotus, Plutarch, Procopius and, of course, Homer. It's a mix of Loeb Library and Oxford Classical Texts. The Herodotus is in two volumes of the OCT so that might be a good one to try. It's been a long time since I read anything and my main thing will be vocabulary (I might struggle to actively conjugate some obscure forms, like an aorist middle optative of a weird verb or something, but I still recognize forms when I see them).
I took a look at Lysistrata, actually, and it seemed pretty straightforward, except for some jargon, but since it was so obscene I think I'd like to learn the jargon anyway...
I still don't know which one I'll go for. I suspect I'll still opt for the Aristophanes, since it's shorter, but I might to Herodotus. Would you follow either of those?
I took a look at Lysistrata, actually, and it seemed pretty straightforward, except for some jargon, but since it was so obscene I think I'd like to learn the jargon anyway...
I still don't know which one I'll go for. I suspect I'll still opt for the Aristophanes, since it's shorter, but I might to Herodotus. Would you follow either of those?
What should I read next in French and German?
22/05/2012 08:05:38 PM
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My list of French literature I've read is extremely short, so, um, Racine? Yourcenar?
22/05/2012 08:17:49 PM
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Re: My list of French literature I've read is extremely short, so, um, Racine? Yourcenar?
23/05/2012 03:23:37 AM
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That would require yet another Pléiade purchase
23/05/2012 04:10:48 AM
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How about one of the Greek Novels?
23/05/2012 03:47:58 AM
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I don't have those.
23/05/2012 04:07:53 AM
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Yeah, Aristophanes sounds good.
23/05/2012 05:01:48 AM
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*browses shelves*
23/05/2012 06:43:38 AM
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I bought 16 books of Jung and 4 of Freud.
23/05/2012 01:44:16 PM
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Don Carlos
23/05/2012 06:21:48 PM
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Yeah, I have that. *NM*
23/05/2012 09:30:48 PM
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And if you were to read the Spanish versions, there are two well-known plays
23/05/2012 11:57:45 PM
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Okay, I looked at Don Carlos. I see no resemblance to Don Juan.
25/05/2012 08:40:05 PM
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I mentioned it because Don Juan appears in it, but is not the star of it
25/05/2012 10:24:20 PM
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It's hard for me to get excited about Spanish literature.
26/05/2012 02:18:40 AM
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Carlos Fuentes said as much in his 2011 non-fiction book, La gran novela latinoamericana
26/05/2012 03:24:22 AM
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Re: *browses shelves*
23/05/2012 06:57:22 PM
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I have the two-volume anthology of French poetry from Pléiade (book series, not the poet group).
23/05/2012 09:32:51 PM
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Re: I have the two-volume anthology of French poetry from Pléiade (book series, not the poet group).
24/05/2012 01:38:45 AM
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You could read the world's first Sci-Fi novel, Lucian of Samosata's Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα.
27/05/2012 03:08:30 PM
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Having read more about that, I'm tempted to say genre fiction has always been bad.
28/05/2012 03:40:45 AM
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