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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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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Looking at this again, I think I should revise it, to use the word "spin" rather than "measure".
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Translations of the Odyssey have been bug talk lately in the Classics community (after