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I am wrestling with various metrical & rhythmical challenges. Is Atreid a spondee? Are there 4 syllables in the possessive Atreus'? Would you ever naturally elide "the", as in "th' Achaeans"? I think I know the answers, but I wish it were otherwise.
Mostly I agree with @amjuster: it’s about the ear, not rules. If it doesn’t sound right, or the rhythm feels forced, then it doesn’t spark joy and you have to kiss it goodbye. I tweeted this in sorrowful recognition of that. . Names are the toughest bc there are no synonyms.
Depressing realization of the morning: there is no way to wrestle "son of Aegeus" or "Aegeus's son" into an iambic line. It wd be a whole lot easier if I were doing a Pope-style translation, in which I allowed myself creative circumlocutions: "Son of the famous King of Attica".
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If you don't know what this is: "The Sportula" is a pair of grad students who offer micro-grants, little chunks of $$, to any classics student who needs it. If you want the field to include more people from less privileged backgrounds, this is a great cause to donate to. t.co/SJNsrdYsje
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Please come to this: staged reading of my under-an-hour abridgment of my Odyssey translation, in collaboration with Aquila Theater/Desiree Sanchez, followed by an hour of discussion with veterans. In NYC.
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I've been asked many times about my translation of the first epithet in the "Odyssey": polytropos (polytropon). I won't boringly repeat my thoughts on that. But I want to emphasize how very difficult, on some level impossible, all the epithets in Homer are.
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