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A greek play that you are for some reason naming in latin instead of just using english? If you're referring to the italian film, the original title is in ital
by guappa 2y ago
A greek play that you are for some reason naming in latin instead of just using english?
If you're referring to the italian film, the original title is in italian :D
- YeGoblynQueenne 2y agoI'm Greek. English. Italian. It's all Latin to me.
- guappa 2y agoI still don't know if you refer to the original play or the italian film about it.
- defrost 2y agoProbably the Stravinsky/Cocteau Opera/libretto combo to properly bastardize the mix by throwing in some gratuitous Russian and French flavour. Unless they're thinking of some Korean or Japanese New Wave productions such as Oldboy or Funeral Parade of Roses.
- YeGoblynQueenne 2y agoYes you do: Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus (Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους Τύραννος, pronounced [oidípuːs týrannos]), or Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_Rex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_Rex And I'm perfectly aware that you're trying, hard, to make some sarcastic point, but that's what everybody in the English-speaking world calls it. Or did you want to talk about it in Greek? I'm fine with that. After all, it was in Greek that I've watched it, as a child, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Theatre_of_Epidaurus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Theatre_of_Epidaurus Did you think that I'm just name-dropping a Greek tragedy to appear erudite and culturrred? Again: I'm Greek. I grew up with that stuff. They even teach us some of it in school (Antigone, for one).
- LargoLasskhyfv 2y agoUhm. Sorry to bother you with something totally off-topic. I have an almost lifelong itch, which I couldn't successfully scratch so far. It's about the meaning of this surename: Κούβελας Usually it is transcribed in English as Kouvelas, in German as Kouwelas, and in French it can be Couvelas, and AFAIK it is pronounced something like Koo-well-as(s) in Greek. Does it have any 'speaking'/describing meaning, like Miller, Carpenter, Fisher, Baker and so on, or is it something like 'from a place called this', maybe distorted over generations? I only get nothing from sites like this https://forebears.io/surnames/kouvelas https://forebears.io/surnames/kouvelas , and the few people with Greek heritage I knew couldn't tell me either, so far. Can/would you, If it doesn't bother you?
- defrost 2y agoThis is like watching a pair of frogs not named Euripides nor Aeschylus farting bubbles in a pond. Βάτραχοι ? ( Also not cultured )
- YeGoblynQueenne 2y agoNo, that's like watching you and the other guy trying to troll me and that's not making you look as cool as you think.
- defrost 2y agoThat's clearly your opinion; I can't speak to the motivations of whom you refer to as "the other guy" but I have zero interest in either attempting to troll you or in looking cool.