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To: SunkenCiv
"memorized the Iliad" Had to look this up. see Paris man memorizes the Iliad

The Associated Press

AMHERST, Mass. _ Retirement brought Stephen Powelson lots of spare time. Perhaps too much: He decided to memorize Homer's "Iliad."

All 600 pages, two volumes, 15,693 lines and more than 200,000 syllables, by his count.

In the ancient Greek.

For 16 years, he has spent about an hour a day _ 5,840 hours in all _ intoning the classic poem. So far, he knows 14,800 lines by heart.

And this is a man whose wife says can't find his glasses or car keys. How did he do it?

"Will, discipline and a touch of madness," he said. (More at link)

(It does not say if he used a Lyre to assist in his memorization.)


“pink-toed dawn”.

I think that the word for rosey fingered was "Rhododactylos." I sold my Liddell and Scott about 10 years ago so can't check. I suppose Dactyulos would apply to toes too.

(Hum. I do not know if I should be imagining the goddess Eos sliding across the dawn sky feet first!)

180 posted on 02/04/2025 8:20:43 AM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

Thanks!

“Pink-toed dawn” seems more evocative than the much more recent “Popsicle Toes”.


185 posted on 02/04/2025 9:28:30 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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