The Moralia is a collection of essays transmitted, side by side, in Latin and Greek and it contains a lot of quotations to works that survive to our day. I wonder HOW they did survive without institutional support and without a broad knowledge of the language it was written in.

Found here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/348

>Anchises saw her, he marked her well and wondered at her mien and height and shining garments. For she was clad in a robe out-shining the brightness of fire, a splendid robe of gold, enriched with all manner of needlework, which shimmered like the moon over her tender breasts, a marvel to see.

>And no one of men or deep-bosomed women knew her when they saw her,

>deep-breasted mountain Nymphs

>deep-bosomed daughters of Oceanus

>she pined with longing for her deep-bosomed daughter

>wasting with yearning for her deep-bosomed daughter

>our deep-bosomed mother

>oppressed the surface of the deep-bosomed earth

>They clothed her with heavenly garments: on her head they put a fine, well-wrought crown of gold, and in her pierced ears they hung ornaments of orichalc and precious gold, and adorned her with golden necklaces over her soft neck and snow-white breasts, jewels which the gold-filleted Hours wear themselves whenever they go to their father's house to join the lovely dances of the gods.

>Menelaus at least, when he caught a glimpse somehow of the breasts of Helen unclad, cast away his sword, methinks.

>Then straightway there rose up against him the trim-ankled maiden (Atalanta), peerless in beauty: a great throng stood round about her as she gazed fiercely, and wonder held all men as they looked upon her. As she moved, the breath of the west wind stirred the shining garment about her tender bosom;

Hi, I am an undergraduate history student who has taken an interest in ancient Greek literature, and I am struggling with my choice of buying a copy of Theogony, Works and Days and the Homeric Hymns. I understand that certain translations are better than the others, and that the Penguin Classics for example may be insufficient. I have so far looked at this translation from the University of Chicago Press:(http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo3618678.html) , but I am open to all suggestions! Thankyou!

Ancient Greeks weren't too different from modern day weebs

Rules: No outside help can be called upon.

Regular version of the character(s). Toonforce only applies to physical aspects (For example, Ed has extreme durability, but he can’t recite the first 200 numbers of pi.)

Assume that luck has no factor.

Round 1: The characters must take a standardized SAT test. They each have 12 hours to complete it. Who scored the highest? Who scores the lowest? Beavis and Butthead only have one test.

Round 2: Each of these characters now have to make it through a hedge maze without destroying anything. Who can make it through legitimately? All speed feats are equalized for this. We're trying to calculate intelligence, not how fast they can take every path.

Round 3: How the Hell can these characters reasonably defeat Rick Sanchez together? Bonus points if they just subdue him, not kill. Assume that Rick has a max of 5 minutes of prep time.

Bonus 1: Each of these characters replace Danny at the end of the Shining. Can they escape from Jack Torrance alive?

Bonus 2: All of these characters have the max level of intelligence that we've seen them at. With Phillip J Fry and Kevin Malone joining them, who is the strongest, most intelligent being that they could defeat?

EDIT: Made some changes to rounds 2 and 3.

I want to buy a book, but there are so many versions to buy. Have anyone read anyone of these and can tell me which one to buy?

I have own translations. One by R.M. Frazer and one by H.G. Evelyn-White. I don't really like Frazer's version, because the author removes interpolated text like how Zeus set Cronus free and Cronus rules the Isles of The Blest. I don't care if that text is interpolated, I still want to read the whole text interpolations and all.

 

I really like Evelyn-White's version, but I heard that M.L. West version is better. I also heard that there is another version also bundled with the poems of Theognis.

 

So what's your favorite edition?

Hesiod had his five ages of mankind, in mostly descending order, with each one getting worse and worse except for the Heroic Age, which was better than its predecessor.

The Golden Age is when mankind was first created, and it ended when Pandora, the first woman, opened up her box.

I'm personally confused about the creation of mankind. The stories say that Prometheus did it, which is cool, and then later on he does the fire thing and gets chained up. Now some sources say that this happened after the Titanomachy, and Prometheus was one of the few unpunished Titans so Zeus was ruler when mankind was created (I've also heard somewhere that Athena was partly responsible for mankind as well). But a Wikipedia search says that the Golden Age was the only one of the five ruled by the Titans, implying that the Titanomachy happens after or at the end of the Golden Age, predating the rule of Zeus and the Olympians.

So which is it? Anyone know?

Rounds end when they both give up. The one who ate/drank more wins.

Round 1: Steak eating

Round 2: Beer drinking

Bonus round: Steak and beer

And this is even before the weather gets warm and the balls start flying out of the stadium

["Tap your heels together three times."]

http://thisnortheasternlife.blogspot.com/2016/04/quote-of-day-for-2016-04-04.html

Verlander is having an insane "only in 2019" season by leading the AL in ERA, WHIP, Ks...and HR allowed. In his home run log, we see that he's given up 27 solo shots, five 2-run homers, and one 3-run homer for a total of 40 runs scored on home runs. He has given up 55 ER total this season.

This means Verlander has given up 15 ER in 184 innings on all plays that are not home runs. This is absurd.

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