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☆ What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us About Grief
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Teju Cole | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

There is abundant evidence of lamentation in ancient Greek art and literature. Death was not a final stop but rather part of a process by which the soul went to Hades. For the soul not to lose its way, proper death rites were essential. People everywhere are wounded by the premature death of their loved ones and are concerned with how to memorialize them. Many stelae honor the young: athletes, young mothers, unmarried girls.

Persons: Death, Hector, ” —, Priam, Hector’s, Antigone, Hegeso, ”, “, couldn’t, Kyriakos Locations: Greece, Lesbos, Chios, Monastiraki, Athens, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Turkey, Thessaloniki, Germany

☆ Exit Hector, Again and Again: How Different Translators Reveal the ‘Iliad’ Anew
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Emily Wilson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

As her husband watched her his heart yearned towards her and he caressed her fondly, saying, “My own wife, do not take these things too bitterly to heart. Her husband noticed,and filled with pity now, Hector stroked her gently,trying to reassure her, repeating her name: “Andromache,dear one, why so desperate? No man alive has ever escaped it,neither brave man nor coward, I tell you —it’s born with us the day that we are born. And his loving wife went home, turning, glancingback again and again and weeping live warm tears. Emily Wilson (2023)In my own translation of the “Iliad,” I echo the metrical regularity of the original by using unrhyming iambic pentameter.

Persons: Samuel Butler, Butler —, —, ”, Butler, Homer’s, Hector, “, Hector ”, Robert Fagles, Fagles’s, Andromache, — it’s, ” Hector aflash, Emily Wilson Locations: Ilion, Troy

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