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Herodotus and Robert Strassler’s new Landmark Herodotus took center stage yesterday on NPR’s “On Point with Tom Ashbrook” (program available in archive). No word on whether that inveterate Herodotus-hater Plutarch, author of “On the Malice of Herodotus”, was available for comment.

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From Michael Gilleland comes word that knowledge of Greek particles can save you from an unwelcome engagement:
Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Blood for the Ghosts: Classical Influences in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983), p. 82:
We are told that when Gaisford said to his pretty daughter ‘You can’t turn down Jelf; he [...]

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The latest world news in Greek from Akropolis World News: New manager for the Opera of Paris, Berlusconi challenges Prodi, 100 condemned in India.

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Michael Gilleland at Laudator Temporis Acti posts several translations of Homer’s meditation on the vicissitudes of life in Odyssey 18.130-137. Among other insights, we can see how true Richard Bentley’s comment on Pope’s Iliad is: “it is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer.”
Homer, Odyssey 18.130-137 (tr. Richmond Lattimore):
Of all [...]

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