Thinking about this @brianphillips.bsky.social classic again as we start another Winter Olympics: grantland.com/features/cit...
Nearest book, page 42, second sentence:
οὐ at the end of a sentence: φῄς, ἢ οὔ; do you say or not? πῶς γὰρ οὔ; for why not? Also οὔ, no, standing alone.
Did they accidentally send the April Fool’s post on May 1 instead? This is a terrible change.
Given that Odysseus thought the most beautiful man in the world was Memnon the Ethiopian, casting a black woman as Helen may have been the only defensible choice.
Bluesky's censorship policies will never not be funny to me.
I can understand, even if I dislike, arguments about the 'irrelevance' of Classics. Shutting down Middle East Studies when America is once again embroiled in a Middle Eastern war, however...
A single word, even a single letter, can mean a lot more when it's in a classic work.
A little papyrological rediscovery and some time-travelling detective work (literary rather than literal) by @theonash.bsky.social has unearthed evidence of medieval misunderstanding & meddling in Homer's Odyssey.