Re: OT: terms for people with different hair colours
| From: | R A Brown <ray@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 23, 2008, 8:06 |
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Eldin Raigmore wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:48:40 +0200, Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...>
> wrote:
[snip]
>> Homer used various epithets to characterise his gods and other
>> characters, and some of them were about hair colour. It won't take
>> you long to find them in the Iliad at least.
>> LEF
> It might not take _you_ long, but _I_ don't read Greek and don't have a copy
> of a translation.
> :-(
You can download Samuel Butler's translation free from:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2199
It's a 19th century translation, and not the translation I'd recommend,
but it's better than nothing :)
If you want to part with cash, then I'd suggest Richmond Lattimore's
translation - University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-46940-9 (paperback
- there's a hard backed version too, but I don't have the ISBN for that).
As for hair color in the Iliad, cf.
http://www.white-history.com/homer01.htm
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