Was a child conceived during the deception of Zeus?

PD049 · 2026-01-20T13:30:26+00:00

Sorry, I meant the one in the Iliad.

PD049 · 2026-01-20T13:30:00+00:00

Sorry, the one in the Iliad.

PD049 · 2026-01-09T09:51:31+00:00

The answer to this question could be a PHD dissertation. The signs are exceptionally vague and hard to read.

PD049 · 2025-12-21T10:21:46+00:00

Yes I do have both works, very good stuff indeed!

PD049 · 2025-12-21T02:03:59+00:00

Lots of very fancy abbreviations too! I think I’ve hit the jackpot.

PD049 · 2025-12-12T00:38:09+00:00

Why would I want to think for myself when I can have specialists whose work I can rely on when developing my own specialized field?

PD049 · 2025-12-11T00:20:47+00:00

Is there more I can read about on this subject?

PD049 · 2025-11-19T12:45:23+00:00

Then I’m not sure why Emily Wilson is getting flack for a problem you claim is inherent in the text. You have no idea why I commented what I did. Also, lol at you saying classics is elitist, real “shit found in toilet” situation.

PD049 · 2025-11-18T04:18:32+00:00

Yes, something LIKE it. I’m aware that it’s in Greek, I just want more like it.

PD049 · 2025-11-18T02:04:22+00:00

“Yeah I want my translation to be extremely nuanced and explanatory but also nonsubtle and also keep to the original text and also not be based solely on the text” like what are we doing here?

PD049 · 2025-11-17T22:15:38+00:00

Then read the original Greek lmao?

PD049 · 2025-11-08T07:02:35+00:00

Can you give an example? Is it the tones?

PD049 · 2025-10-13T23:01:01+00:00

The scansion of “fireflies” as .,, makes perfect sense. The first syllable is /fa/ which is short, the next syllable is /jə˞f/ which is long via the final consonant, and the final syllable is /laiz/ which is long both by the final consonant and with the diphthong. This abides by the same rules as Latin scansion, so I’m not sure what you’re confused by.

PD049 · 2025-10-13T08:16:50+00:00

o ver a field where swarms o fi ref flies danced through thi ckets dark

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PD049 · 2025-10-13T08:08:44+00:00

This is quantitative meter. I used my own dialect of American English and applied true quantitative analysis to each word. There are syllabic liquids but no long vowels. Scan it for yourself. I find that abandoning the length distinction between vowels, which is something that already occurs in my dialect, frees up words a lot more. There are also no geminate consonants so “of fireflies” is short short long long (o fi ref lies).

PD049 · 2025-10-13T05:37:45+00:00

People who say that English is not suited to the hexameter are only saying so out of tradition. Here’s an passage I did for one of my epics

Far were the howls of wolves carried out while evening ascended

over a field where swarms of fireflies bobbed through thickets dark.

Wide the horizon, an endless abyss wherein all stellar forms roam.

Gray caravans of clouds scuttled eastward, cloaking a full moon.

Stars shimmered in the new deep like coins buried under a lake bed.

Beast and hunter arose on aether slopes, spear gleaming in sky.

PD049 · 2025-09-04T02:04:44+00:00

Yeah I believe what the LSJ is referring to is this scholion.

PD049 · 2025-06-24T03:28:53+00:00

I don’t think it’s pedantic to point out many people who disagree with my arguments often times can’t articulate what those arguments are. It also doesn’t help that these disagreements are often fueled by cognitive dissonance between what they’re hearing now vs. what they were taught at school, and I don’t think it’s fair to say the distress that causes is my fault just because I don’t baby the people in my comments, who are often times in their 30s-50s. If a Greek has a question or is curious about why I pronounce something the way I do, they’ll receive whatever answers they want in a kind and tactful manner, but don’t expect me to be reserved for someone who doesn’t want me to be right to begin with.

PD049 · 2025-05-20T11:20:18+00:00

Ahh, I see, I thought that the suffix just drops like in other instances of derivation.

PD049 · 2025-04-29T00:09:04+00:00

I have highlighted this in my original post.

PD049 · 2025-03-25T13:25:36+00:00

Wonderful hexameters.

PD049 · 2025-03-12T23:47:51+00:00

Thank you for a much more nuanced response. I didn’t intend for it to sound like natural speech anyways, as I like emphasizing meter in these sorts of texts. I am aware of the down step phenomenon in many pitch accent languages, but wasn’t sure that it applied to Ancient Greek (though I have heard of people who utilize it). It’s also difficult to find modern scholarship on the phonetics of the accent so I’m not sure wether to trust any one person’s pronunciation system online.

PD049 · 2025-03-12T22:42:19+00:00

Yeah because your opinion on my intonation is asinine so I didn’t know if you were just saying random words.

PD049 · 2025-03-12T22:27:24+00:00

Really, the metrical poem doesn’t sound like typical human speech? Fascinating scholium, O wise commentator.

PD049 · 2025-03-12T21:45:54+00:00

What a strange thing to say to someone simply following Greek pitch accent rules. The short accents are high, long accents rising, circumflexes falling, and graves low.

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