[Bob Ireland]

***Book versions of Homer’s epic poem have been selling like hotcakes in the wake of the film’s release***

In the original Greek? 🤔

[proxy_user]

ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ
πλάγχθη, ἐπεὶ Τροίης ἱερὸν πτολίεθρον ἔπερσεν:
πολλῶν δ᾽ ἀνθρώπων ἴδεν ἄστεα καὶ νόον ἔγνω,
πολλὰ δ᾽ ὅ γ᾽ ἐν πόντῳ πάθεν ἄλγεα ὃν κατὰ θυμόν,
ἀρνύμενος ἥν τε ψυχὴν καὶ νόστον ἑταίρων.
ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ὣς ἑτάρους ἐρρύσατο, ἱέμενός περ:
αὐτῶν γὰρ σφετέρῃσιν ἀτασθαλίῃσιν ὄλοντο,
νήπιοι, οἳ κατὰ βοῦς Ὑπερίονος Ἠελίοιο
ἤσθιον: αὐτὰρ ὁ τοῖσιν ἀφείλετο νόστιμον ἦμαρ.

[Cronos]

I work with some folks in Greece and they tell me the film has renewed interest in reading the epic even there.

Though it was originally in Homeric Greek which differs considerably from modern Greek.

A modern speaker finds Homeric Greek virtually unintelligible without specialized study, much like an English speaker reading early medieval texts. The difference is in grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary. Homeric Greek uses five active cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative), while Modern Greek drops the dative case, merging its functions into the genitive and accusative. Homeric Greek relies heavily on verb infinitives, which do not exist in Modern Greek.

So it’s somewhere between a modern English speaker trying to read Chaucer and Shakespeare.

[Organic Panic]

I assume they are getting the feminized woke version that inspired Nolan.

[mewzilla]

Hopefully Alexander Pope’s translation.