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Yes you do: Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus (Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους Τύραννος, pronounced [oidípuːs týrannos]), or Oedipus the Kin
by YeGoblynQueenne 2y ago
Yes 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.