Tag Archives: Odyssey

Homer, Odyssey 13.397-9

Posted on November 1, 2012 by

“Come, I will make you unknown to all mortals I will wither the skin on your bent limbs And ruin your head’s blond hair…”   ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε σ᾽ ἄγνωστον τεύξω πάντεσσι βροτοῖσι: κάρψω μὲν χρόα καλὸν ἐνὶ γναμπτοῖσι μέλεσσι, ξανθὰς … Continue reading →

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Homer, Odyssey 17.218

Posted on July 27, 2012 by

    “God always bring like men together.”   αἰεί τοι τὸν ὁμοῖον ἄγει θεὸς ὡς τὸν ὁμοῖον   This, of course, is not necessarily a positive thing (in the Odyssey the wicked cowherd Melantheus says this to insult Odysseus and … Continue reading →

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Homer, Odyssey 14.399-400

Posted on June 1, 2012 by

  Let us take pleasure from recalling one another’s greivous pains   κήδεσιν ἀλλήλων τερπώμεθα λευγαλέοισι / μνωομένω     The full text.   Odysseus isn’t a hero just because of the suffering he caused 

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Homer, Odyssey, 11.489-491

Posted on May 21, 2012 by

  “I would rather serve as slave to another man a man with no land and livelihood than be a king over all the rotted corpses”   βουλοίμην κ’ ἐπάρουρος ἐὼν θητευέμεν ἄλλῳ, ἀνδρὶ παρ’ ἀκλήρῳ, ᾧ μὴ βίοτος πολὺς … Continue reading →

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Homer, Odyssey 11.134

Posted on April 9, 2012 by

“Death will come to you from the sea” θάνατος δέ τοι ἐξ ἁλὸς αὐτῷ This is probably an allusion to the story of the Telegony,when Odysseus is killed by his son with Circe, Telegonus (who goes on to marry Penelope). … Continue reading →

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