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22559138 No.22559138 [Reply] [Original]

>When he had wrecked the holy town of Troy
This line from the Wilson Odyssey haunts me every day.
Jesus Christ why not just say "sacked the sacred city, Troy?"

>> No.22559164

>>22559138
>why not just say "sacked the sacred city, Troy?"
Because this train of words would seem foreign and unnatural to her.

>> No.22559929

>>22559138
>sacked the sacred city, Troy?
Isnt that the lyrics of some led zeppelin song?

>> No.22559941

>>22559138
Wrecked paints a more dynamic mental image than sacked.

>> No.22559956

>>22559941
only if you're a 60iq retard who doesn't know what 'sacked' means. and people like that aren't reading the odyssey

>> No.22559957

>>22559138
>Jesus Christ why not just say "sacked the sacred city, Troy?"
IVAN RAPED BERLIN.

that's why. fucking wehraboo.

>> No.22559986

>>22559138
you are aware, I hope, anon, that you are reading a piece of poetry, and that, therefore, it must make do with things like metre, and rhythm, and that sort of thing

>> No.22560459

>>22559956
>>22559138
may as well set the story in err los angeles suburbs and have the cast be fastfood workers

>> No.22560464

>>22559941
i think 'town' is the more ridiculous bit

>>22559986
no, anybody could do better, it's just stupidity on the part of the author

>> No.22560639

Sacked has male connotations

>> No.22561191

>>22560639
>how is she in the sack?

>> No.22561214

As someone who once lived in Troy, calling that podunk town a city is hilarious.

>> No.22561281

>>22559138
Is there any proof that Emily Wilson can even read ancient greek? Who is to say that she didn't just take some other translations as her base line and then changed it from there?

>> No.22561500

What was Wilson's reason for translating Homer? How can you add anything else beyond what Lattimore already perfect decades prior.

>> No.22561511

>>22561214
Tell us more, mummified Trojan nobleman.

>> No.22561899

>>22559138
Try reading the dictionary.

>> No.22561934

>>22559941
Not if you know what sacking is. Wrecked merely describes the physical state of the town and is a rather weak word for conjuring a sharp mental image. For example the difference between a ship being wrecked and cleaved or punctured gives a much better indication of what kind of damage the ship has taken as opposed to the catch-all wrecked. Additionally, the word sacked works on more than the physical level. When a town is sacked it is plundered, it’s inhabitants slaved, defenses destroyed, the whole regular cycle of life for the town is disrupted. Wrecked on the other hand makes no allusion to the inhabitants, wealth, or lasting destruction which was inflicted on it.