[B-Greek] The music of Homeric verse

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 20 15:57:50 EDT 2009


That's OK.  I'm always glad to take credit for Carl's work.  <Bow, bow>  :-)
 george
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From: Jennifer & Bruce McKinnon <jennifer.bruce at telus.net>
To: B-Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 2:16:39 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] The music of Homeric verse

After I pushed the send button I realized this email should have referred to 
Carl not George!  Hopefully my brain works better when I look at the Homer.
Bruce McKinnon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jennifer & Bruce McKinnon" <jennifer.bruce at telus.net>
To: "B-Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] The music of Homeric verse


> George,
> I haven't looked at any Homeric Greek for 35 plus years but perhaps the 
> time has now come to revisit it.  I'll pull out my copy of Homer and see 
> what happens.  Thanks for the encouragement.
> Bruce McKinnon
> Victoria, Canada
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Carl Conrad" <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
> To: "B-Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 3:16 AM
> Subject: [B-Greek] The music of Homeric verse
>
>
>> Maybe I just want to see if our list software is still working after
>> the hiatal silence of the weekend. While what I call attention to is
>> admittedly tangential to the study of Biblical Greek and the Biblical
>> Greek text, it is a tangent that I have consistently heretofore urged
>> B-Greekers to pursue, on grounds that, for readers of any Greek
>> literature, the Homeric poetry is a wellspring deserving of fresh
>> visits by mid-life learners as well as old codgers like myself.
>> Michael Gilleland's blog-entry of April 19 is entitled "Para Thina
>> Poluphloisboio Thalasses" (παρὰ θῖνα
>> πολυφλοισβοῖο θαλάσσης = PARA QINA POLUFLOISBOIO
>> QALASSHS) -- "along the strand of the much-roaring sea." I can still
>> vividly recall the first time I encountered, as a sophomore in the
>> fall of 1953, this recurrent formula in line 34 of Book 1 of the
>> Iliad, where the aged priest of Apollo, Chryses, cursed and sent off
>> fruitless in his endeavor to ransom his daughter, Chryseis, makes his
>> way despondently over the sands of the Trojan littoral. It is a
>> majestic-sounding roll of syllables, and it constitutes one of the
>> reasons why it is worthwhile reading more than a restricted corpus of
>> texts composed within a century and a half of the long life-span of
>> Greek literature. At any rate, the snippet cited by the Laudator
>> Temporis Acti is from a traveler''s reflections on ways in which the
>> ancient Greek experience of the sights and sounds of the sea found
>> echoes in the music of Homeric poetry:
>>
>> http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2009/04/para-thina-poluphloisboio-thalasses.html
>> = http://tinyurl.com/cv4jed
>>
>> Carl W. Conrad
>> Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
>>
>>
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