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Another 6 lines of the Lycaon story. \u00a0Sort of. \u00a0Lycaon’s story per se ends with the piece I published the other day. \u00a0It continues, however, as Ovid recounts how the enraged Jupiter goes from transforming Lycaon into a wolf to plans for a deluge, a wiping out of humans. The other gods are mostly okay with this except they do ask, “who will carry incense onto our altars?” \u00a0A bit of divine pragmatism.<\/p>\n
Must of been eating my Latin wheaties because the translation is coming faster and faster now, the results of my work most often squaring with the Loeb English translation. \u00a0That’s not to say they match but I understand how Miller got his translation and how mine differs in a way that makes sense. \u00a0The Loeb’s purpose, as I understand it, is to offer a close to literal reading of the Latin, though once you learn the Latin it’s clear how far from the Latin even the literal readings are. \u00a0This is not criticism; rather, it shows the gap between languages and how bridging those gaps is a quirky business, yielding all manner of contraptions from elegant trussed spans to rickety ropes.<\/p>\n
This is what I got into it for, yeah these many years ago. \u00a0After studying the Bible, written in Hebrew and Greek, you learn the need for careful attention to this work, exegesis. \u00a0I never mastered either Hebrew or Greek, but I really wanted to experience the world behind the Wizard’s curtain of the translator.<\/p>\n
As a vehicle for that journey, I chose the Metamorphoses because it is the reference text for the entry of Greek and Roman mythology into the Western stream of the humanities. This way I ground myself in mythology while satisfying a more abstract desire. \u00a0It’s working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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