[B-Greek] Understanding? Greek?

Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com
Wed Mar 12 16:45:00 EDT 2008


2008/3/12 Carl W. Conrad <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>:

> On Mar 12, 2008, at 10:30 AM, Randall Buth wrote:
>
> >> People, we poor slobs who who slaved over Greek and still cannot read
> > it are evidently not alone. ...
> >
> http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2008/03/understanding-greek.html
> > ... and weep -- or sigh, or return to the grindstone.
> > Carl W. Conrad
> >>
> >
> > some of that is the stuff of urban legend,
> >
> > so for your morning pre-elevensies pickup,
> > run your eyes over this,
> > no stopping:
> >
> > ...
> > ἔσται γὰρ κύριός σοι φῶς αἰώνιον
> > καὶ ἀναπληρωθήσονται αἱ ἡμέραι
> > τοῦ πένθους σου
> > καὶ ὁ λαός σου πᾶς δίκαιος
> > καὶ δι᾿ αἰῶνος κληρονομήσουσιν
> > τὴν γῆν
> > φυλάσσων τὸ φύτευμα
> > ἔργα χειρῶν αὐτοῦ εἰς δόξαν
> > ὁ ὀλιγοστὸς ἔσται εἰς χιλιάδας
> > καὶ ὁ ἐλάχιστος εἰς ἔθνος μέγα
> > ἐγὼ κύριος κατὰ καιρὸν συνάξω
> > αὐτούς
> >
> > there, don't you feel better?
> >
> > don't you wish AISXYLOS read like that,
> > even with feeling an occasional glitch of the
> > LXX text/translator?
>
> Aeschylus DOES read quite eloquently enough -- and not always
> so terribly difficult, either.  The following passage applies
> eloquently enough to what's been going on in Iraq,
> if you'll just change a couple of the proper names -- and maybe
> change ALLOTRIAS DIAI GUNAIKOS to some other specious
> pretext:
>
> ὁ χρυσαμοιβὸς δ' Ἄρης σωμάτων
> καὶ ταλαντοῦχος ἐν μάχῃ δορὸς
> πυρωθὲν ἐξ Ἰλίου
> φίλοισι πέμπει βαρὺ
> ψῆγμα δυσδάκρυτον, ἀντ-
> ήνορος σποδοῦ γεμί-
> ζων λέβητας εὐθέτους.
> στένουσι δ' εὖ λέγοντες ἄν-
> δρα τὸν μὲν ὡς μάχης ἴδρις,
> τὸν δ' ἐν φοναῖς καλῶς πεσόντ'ͺ 'ἀλ-
> λοτρίας διαὶ γυναικός'·
> τάδε σῖγά τις βαΰζει·
> φθονερὸν δ' ὑπ' ἄλγος ἕρπει
> προδίκοις Ἀτρείδαις.
>
> hO CRUSAMOIBOS D' ARHS SWMATWN
> KAI TALANTOUCOS EN MACHi DOROS
> PURWQEN EX ILIOU
> FILIOIS PEMPEI BARU
> YHGMA DUSDAKRUTON, ANT-
> HNOROS SPODOU GEMI-
> ZWN LEBHTAS EUQETOUS.
> STENOUSI D' EU LEGONTES AN-
> DRA TON MEN hWS MACHS IDRIS,
> TON D' EN FONAIS KALWS PESONT', AL-
> LOTRIAS DIAI GUNAIKOS;
> TADE SIGA TIS BAUZEI;
> FQONERON D' hUP' ALGOS hERPEI
> PRODIKOIS ATREIDAIS.
>
>        Aeschylus, Agamemnon 438-451
>
> Carl W. Conrad
>

Moving it is, and 'dying well' is such a Greek motif.
'well-fallen on the killing fields'
Not exactly my ideal of 'goodday sunshine',
yet it is nice to have someone call a Doric chorus
as transparent as a LXX text.

ερρωσο
IWANHS
-- 
Randall Buth, PhD
www.biblicalulpan.org
Biblical Language Center
Learn Easier - Progress Further - Remember for Life
randallbuth at gmail.com


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