Tell me, why do you weep and grieve so sorely when you hear the fate of the Argives, hear the fall of Troy? That is the gods’ work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, and all to make a song for those to come. (Alcinous, The Odyssey)https://twitter.com/EPoe187/status/1192446399465558016 …
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Tweet char limit! It's Fagles, but I actually like the wording here better from Mandelbaum: > The gods brought this about: for men they wove the web of suffering, that men to come might have a theme to sing. I don't have Wilson's, but its very end of Book 8 if you wanna look
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Wilson: .... "The gods devised and measured out this devastation, to make a song for those in times to come. Mandelbaum and Fagles both add in the word "men" quite a lot. The Greek "anthropos" can include Arete and Nausicaa in the audience.
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Translations of the Odyssey have been bug talk lately in the Classics community (after