I have a few questions to ask of the Classicist scholars who frequent this list.
Question #1: Philip Vellacott, translator of Euripides' works, has the following statement: Electra: "Year after year her father's blood cries from the ground; but no god hears." (P.Vellacott, Euripides, Medea and Other Plays, London, Penquin Books, p.111, 1963) Is the expression "her father's blood cries from the ground" really a Greek expression/metaphor or is it a rather "loosely-made" translation of Vellacott's ? Question #2: Edith Hamilton makes the following translation from Euripides' Seven Against Thebes: Theseus: "We seek the dead only, to return to the earth the body, of which no man is the owner, but only for a brief moment the guest. Dust must return to dust again." (p.266, Edith Hamilton, Mythology, Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, [1940,1942], 1963) Is the phrase "Dust must return to dust again" really a Greek metaphor or is it Hamilton's "loosely-made" translation ? I realize that there are many differing translations of Vergil's Aeneid and other works, and would imagine that one has to be careful in accepting translations as really being true to the native language's actual expression. Off-line answers will be appreciated, Thank you, Walter R. Mattfeld ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
