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Yeah, Aristophanes sounds good. Dan Send a noteboard - 23/05/2012 05:01:48 AM
I'll probably only poke at for a week or two, but once June hits I'll read it closely. I've never dealt with any non-attic dialects ever, so it should prove to be interesting. Maybe start a thread here whenever you begin?

It's actually fairly interesting what translation one decides upon ultimately. They can be extremely variant, apparently. I'd be interested to see how you do a few lines every one once and a while. I'll periodically do a literal translation, followed by how it should sound in English. Mostly I just want to know the extent to which Classicists shirk from saying "fuck" and "titties". Anyway, let me know!



Given how much I do have, I'm likely to choose something from that. I have the Argonautica, all of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, all of Aristophanes (obviously, we're talking surviving works), the Enneads by Plotinus, some early Church Fathers (Basil, Clement, St. John Chrysostom), Ptolemy, Manetho (I like Egypt a lot), all of Plato, some assorted Aristotle, Thucydides, Herodotus, Plutarch, Procopius and, of course, Homer. It's a mix of Loeb Library and Oxford Classical Texts. The Herodotus is in two volumes of the OCT so that might be a good one to try. It's been a long time since I read anything and my main thing will be vocabulary (I might struggle to actively conjugate some obscure forms, like an aorist middle optative of a weird verb or something, but I still recognize forms when I see them).

I took a look at Lysistrata, actually, and it seemed pretty straightforward, except for some jargon, but since it was so obscene I think I'd like to learn the jargon anyway...

I still don't know which one I'll go for. I suspect I'll still opt for the Aristophanes, since it's shorter, but I might to Herodotus. Would you follow either of those?
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