Heracles' bow

[Cantousent]

The paragraph is from Iliad I think. It's where they leave Lemnos and take this guy called Philoktetes nobody likes, cause he has Heracles' bow: then they leave him to rot for a while.

 

Eldar: that was my spelling mistakes, tines not tioes and aiskros not aiskpos. Nevertheless, double-checking with that I seem to have got it now:

 

(For) the generals threw him out shamefully and devastated him thus, and he is wasting away with a fierce disease.

 

Still, he has the bow we need

[thepixiesrock]

I recently read the Iliad, and yeah, they leave the guy behing cause he is sick or something. Well, I didn't really read the Iliad, I read the Iliad in the Edith Hamilton book. It was like a fourth person perspective of it. Anyway, yeah, I remember them going back for the bow, and they shoot Paris with it. If my memory serves me correctly.

[Judge Hades]

Pixie read the Iliad? Shocking. Then again he ocul dbe just faking it and saw the movie "Troy."

 

The problem I often have in translating a direct translation doesn't always work. One not only needs to translate the words that are bing said but the tone and meaning behind the words as well.

[LoneWolf16]

Mythology class, Pixies? Or Classical lit?

 

I read that book by Hamilton too...and I'm with him on the assessment.

[Cantousent]

Okay, here's one of my favorite passages. I'll give you a hint: Socrates is the speaker.

 

νυν δὲ ορατε δὴ καὶ αυτοὶ ότι οι κατήγοροι ταλλα πάντα αναισχύντως ούτω κατηγορουντες τουτό γε ουχ οιοί τε εγένοντο απαναισχυντησαι

παρασχόμενοι μάρτυρα, ως εγώ ποτέ τινα ὴ επραξάμην μισθὸν ὴ ήτησα. ικανὸν γάρ, οιμαι, εγὼ παρέχομαι τὸν μάρτυρα ως αληθη λέγω, τὴν πενίαν.

[thepixiesrock]

"Classical Mythology" I believe is the name of the class.

[Cantousent]

You had it right, Pixies, but that story is part of the Trojan War mythos. There are myths that predate Homer's [Homers'?] works that didn't make the cut.