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Re: iolosef

[(Anonymous)]

Clearly they’ve never read Tolkien and been exposed to the Rohirrim. Or Shadowfax.

Re: iolosef

[(Anonymous)]

NGL, I did genuinely like learning about the Anemoi.

Re: iolosef

[(Anonymous)]

I think if we can reference Homer we can safely set “Wind = Horses” to be an understood reference by the time of the Odyssey. Now it’s likely Homer was including more modern interpretations of the gods, which might put this reference at the 800BC mark. However, Homer was continuing on an oral tradition, so it’s possibly even older. Scholars consider the Illiad to be a Greek interpretation of the Bronze Age collapse. That potentially dates it back further to 1050 or 1200 BC. And that’s just the Greeks!

In short, horses have been associated with wind for anywhere between 2800 and 3200 years. Making the original argument extra silly.


Also, I really strongly recommend everyone at some point in their life go and read at least a bit of the Illiad, and remember that Homer by all traditions was completely blind. The descriptions are stunning, and it’s a deeply cool bit of ancient literature.

Re: iolosef

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Do you have a translation you'd recommend? I grabbed the Emily Wilson one just because I'm not a classicist + I've never taken a class, and I heard that one is very understandable for the layperson, but I'd be curious to see what you'd recommend! #Sincere

Re: iolosef

[(Anonymous)]

Not the nonny you asked, but the Robert Fagles (Penguin Classics) editions of the Iliad and the Oddessy are both very readable and accessible.

Re: iolosef

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you!

+1

[(Anonymous)]

Yay, another Fagles fan on ARR! This is the last place I expected him to be brought up though, kinda funny.