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I find it difficult to believe that is true
by bandrami 9y ago
I find it difficult to believe that is true
- mirimir 9y ago> Wilson, whose own translation appears this week, has produced the first English rendering of the poem by a woman. Well, it goes without saying that it's the first that the author was aware of. However, given that the author admittedly doesn't know Greek, it rather seems that he lacks standing to make such a claim. Maybe Dr. Wilson told him, and he didn't want to quote her. I'd have qualified the statement, or provided a source, but then that's just how I am.
- emodendroket 9y agoWhat? You don't need to know Greek to figure out what authors have published an English translation of the Odyssey.
- mirimir 9y agoWhat, with Google? My point is that someone who doesn't know Greek likely doesn't know the field well enough. To know, for example, whether some woman decades ago translated the Odyssey into English. As part of an unfinished thesis, with an obscure adviser.
- emodendroket 9y agoProbably a more specialized tool than Google. But OK, sure, maybe a hermit wrote a complete translation of the Iliad and never showed it to anyone.
- gaius 9y agoLikewise. 2000 years ago in Roman Britain I am certain many people did it and some of them would have been women.
- Franciscouzo 9y agoI am doubtful they would have translated it into English, because it didn't even exist.
- barry-cotter 9y agoThe Anglo-Saxons didn’t arrive in Britain until the 400s so nothing resembling English was spoken before then. This is very likely the first complete translation into English of the Odyssey by a woman.
- emodendroket 9y agoBesides the fact that nobody spoke English at the time, you think a lot of women literate in both Greek and Latin were running around Roman Britain?
- gaius 9y agoActually, yes. Learn some history.
- emodendroket 9y agoI find it hard to find any support for your claim that ancient Roman women would have generally been literate in Greek. Why don't you enlighten me if it's so obvious? Am I being lectured to "learn some history" by a guy claiming a translation into English might have happened before any Angles arrived in Britain?