07-20-2007, 03:58 PM | #1 |
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Greek Lyric poets
I'm teaching lyric poets in my Greek Civ. class this week. I had forgotten just how great they were. Here's my favorite fragment (for the moment) by Archilochus.
πόλλ’ οἶδ’ ἀλώπηξ, ἀλλ’ ἐχῖνος ἓν μέγα. (fr. 201) Roughly translated: "The fox knows many tricks, the hedgehog only one - a really good one." Anyone else got some nice lyric fragments to share, or am I alone in my nerdiness?
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I like that one.
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That's the one I was familair with as well. I know no Greek, but Berlin's seems a ltitle more powerful in English.
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To be honest the only Greek I really know is from the SNL skit with John Belushi:
"Cheeburga, cheeburga, cheeburga. No Coke. Pepsi."
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07-22-2007, 08:54 PM | #8 |
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I don't know if you're looking for Greek only, but I remember the first time I read this in the Aeneid:
"Equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentis."
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Good advice, and a great line.
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