/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6381078]

>reading translated poetry
Εγώ σοβαρά την ελπίδα εσείς δεν το kάνουμε αυτό

[Anonymous No.6381110]

>>6381078
Μάθε να μιλάς ρε βλάkα πριν ποστάρεις!

[Anonymous No.6381115]

>>6381078

>FAGles

topkek

[Anonymous No.6381161]

I hate these threads because I consider myself a genius, despite only speaking one language. It makes me feel as dumb as I really am, and I cant have that.

Sage and report, frankly.

[Anonymous No.6381170]

>>6381078

εντάξει ξέρετε ότι οι αρχαίοι Έλληνες δεν είναι τίποτα όπως τα σύγχρονα ελληνιkά, σωστά; Νίkαιας το Google Translate

[Anonymous No.6381179]

>>6381078
A-are you being passive aggressive in another language?

dick

[Anonymous No.6381181]

>google translated modern greek
>thinking attic greek is even understandable at all by speakers of modern greek

[Calypso !DabWKAVCOE No.6381190]

Αμαζόνες προkύπτουν

Its best heard by oral narration on the street corners of your local city in bits and pieces.

[H.Q.S.S.G No.6381198]

>>6381078
What's the most efficient method to learn greek? Or, a better question would be which resources do you all use? I speak decent spanish and a wee bit of german so I want to move on to either latin or greek and i'm more interested in greek.
I don't trust my local uni to be frank so local classes are sort of a last resort.

[Anonymous No.6381202]

>>6381198
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8veLRL4stY&list=PLgkB8soHoOljjHEMs1rpGnaeZs1CphqX7 was a good start for me.

[Anonymous No.6381244]

>>6381181
Native Greek here. It is quite similar, plus a few more accents and tenses and such that aren't used in modern Greek. We had to take a course for 3 years in high school in ancient Greek, I think a recent educational overhaul reduced that to 1 year though. Modern Greek, English and a choice between French or German were the other language classes.

[Anonymous No.6381284]

A bunch of butthurt Anglos on this board will tell you that only English is worth learning because they still can't get over the fact that they'll only ever know and understand one language while a bunch of Africans get to know four before they reach half their age. You can ignore these comments.

[Anonymous No.6381291]

"Someone who did not learn Latin and Greek goes through life convinced, even though he may deny it, that he is only semi-cultured."

[Anonymous No.6381307]

Real talk though can people fluent in ancient Greek read the Iliad with proper fidelity? Do we have an adequate understanding of the language?

[Anonymous No.6381315]

reading translated poetry
"Det var i den tid jeg gikk omkring og sultet i Kristiania, denne forunderlige by som ingen forlater for han har fått merker av den …"

[Anonymous No.6381391]

>>6381181
Greeks were xenophobic as motherfuck; they wouldn't let their language get mixed with any other if it meant no boipussy for the rest of their lives.

[Anonymous No.6381424]

>>6381078
>reading

Ha, what a pleb.

[Anonymous No.6382240]

>>6381161
>I consider myself a genius

[Anonymous No.6382295]

>reading poetry, regardless of whether translated or not
>not exclusively getting your poetry by listening to traditional oral poets recite

[Myrmidone No.6382318]

Why do people dislike Fagles so much, I really enjoyed that version.

[Anonymous No.6382335]

>>6382318
I bought the Fagles translation of Iliad and Odyssey at a used book for $10. They're very aesthetically pleasing, but I haven't read them yet.

[Anonymous No.6382363]

>2015
>not listening to a traveling bard recite the poems on the shores of Crete

no wonder /lit/ has gone downhill

[Anonymous No.6382371]

>>6381078
Yeah boy. You do that. Do it real slow. Like real ratchet hoes do it.

[Anonymous No.6382381]

>>6382318
He's very easy to read but sacrifices some of the beauty and character or the poem for the sake of that readability.

[Anonymous No.6382408]

>>6382363
>Not going back in time and hearing it recited by Homer himself

[Anonymous No.6382412]

it's fine, there's plenty of English poetry but I completely agree translated poetry is plebian as fuck. dissect Paradise Lost, skim through translated Odyssey.

[Shitposting Ironically No.6382428]

>>6382408
>Homer himself

lol

[Anonymous No.6383305]

>>6381391

Greek culture spread across the Mediterranean. The language went with it.

[Anonymous No.6383318]

>>6382408
>believing Homer was one person

[Anonymous No.6383380]

>>6382408
dat greek nose

[Anonymous No.6383578]

>>6381161
>consider oneself a genius
>monolingual
>kel

[Anonymous No.6383605]

>reading spoken poetry

>being able to read and write

[Anonymous No.6383728]

>>6381115

[Anonymous No.6383769]

>>6381078
>poetry
i bought prose versions of iliad and odyssey

[dude No.6383778]

>>6382408
I like this nose too.

[Anonymous No.6383826]

>>6382335
>aesthetically pleasing
>haven't read them yet
what the fuck are you talking about then? the covers?

[Anonymous No.6384354]

Are facing-page editions acceptable?

[Anonymous No.6384659]

http://www.loecsen.com/travel/0-en-67-2-57-free-lessons-greek.html

Good for Greek?

[Anonymous No.6384872]

>>6381284
BASED

[Anonymous No.6384941]

>>6381078
Sorry OP, i'm too busy not studying ancient greek to read it in its native language. Surely I'm better off by not reading it at all.