Spring Bee Hiving Moon
Moving deeper into Book I of the Metamorphoses. Next week I’ll set a schedule for translating, so many verses a day. Plus I plan to set a schedule for certain additional research that will go along with this task, things like comparing Ovid’s stories with other accounts of the same myth, investigating key grammatical or etymological points and, the big one, getting deep into Roman history of the late Republic and early Imperial era, Ovid’s time. Over the last couple of years I have purchased books about Ovid and his poetry, Roman poetry and comparative literature between and among Ovid and his peers.
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I’ve not been too willing to get into these areas in any depth until I felt the translating had reached some point, though I didn’t know what that was. Well, now I’ve reached it. And I’m ready to go the next step.
I spent a half an hour today and translated 5 verses, so my speed is picking up, though to be fair the difficulty varies, usually with regard to the length of a sentence.
Also in the mail today. The nitrogen for the vegetable garden and my new Lenovo laptop. This replaces my old Hewlett-Packard, a sturdy and reliable machine that has been outstripped by cheaper processors and memory and the retirement of Microsoft XP. It doesn’t have enough juice to run Windows 7 or Windows 8. Tomorrow I plan to start it up and see what’s what.
