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>"For there are so many people in the world, and it makes me so very angry" Where did you get that translation from? That has an entirely different meaning fro
by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
>"For there are so many people in the world, and it makes me so very angry"
Where did you get that translation from? That has an entirely different meaning from the more commonly accepted ones. Here's a couple:
From Robert Grave's The Greek Myths:
>In the course of my life I have antagonized many princes, and I shall therefore name this grandson Odysseus, meaning The Angry One, because he will be the victim of my enmities. Yet if he ever comes to Mount Parnassus to reproach me, I shall give him a share of my possessions, and assuage his anger.
From Fagles's translation:
>give the boy the name I tell you now. Just as I have come from afar, creating pain for many - men and women, across the good green earth - so let his name be Odysseus
Sounds like he's saying "name him Odysseus because I pissed a bunch of people off" rather than "name him Odysseus because I'm pissed there's too many people on this earth".