tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13989355.post114742439244503040..comments2016-11-26T22:48:57.917+00:00Comments on de præterito tempore: Ulysses and OdysseusUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13989355.post-91646351786966835292016-11-26T22:48:57.917+00:002016-11-26T22:48:57.917+00:00Hello,
In addition to the above, I would say that ...Hello,<br />In addition to the above, I would say that definitely ΟΛΥΤΤΕΥΣ is not a mistake, but another form of the name. It can be found in ancient scripts (as upon one vase in H. Throne-Holst collection, Stockholm where OLYTEYΣ is written)Manolishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18323706496407262020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13989355.post-52994068932358948312007-06-29T13:26:00.000+00:002007-06-29T13:26:00.000+00:00Dear friend, I have read your interesting story ab...Dear friend, <BR/><BR/>I have read your interesting story about how Odysseus became Ulysses by a linguistic mistake. Thinking that you should like to know alternative theories, I suggest that you examine the possibility of a non mistaken change of (Δ = delta) to (Λ = lambda). This transformation of delta to lambda is used in other cases also ( δασύς = λάσιος, δάκρυ = lacryma, δαήρ = levir, Vassils Xidiashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02979861852240770416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13989355.post-1147566483162808172006-05-14T00:28:00.000+00:002006-05-14T00:28:00.000+00:00Pierre,Thanks for your comments! they are well tho...Pierre,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your comments! they are well thought out and informed, as always...<BR/><BR/>I recall reading a book about the Myceaneans bt Chadwick in which he mentions that there are many "fantasious" things on the Illiad (the Oddysey is, in comarison, simple). But also that many things ringed very true.<BR/><BR/>For example the list of ships in that moved to Illion, and the Excaliborhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03198846967026271989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13989355.post-1147540520739592512006-05-13T17:15:00.000+00:002006-05-13T17:15:00.000+00:00For example the Song of Roland, F....s up the the ...<I>For example the Song of Roland, F....s up the the ambush at Ronchesvalle to a spectacular extent. (Wrong enemy, Sarcens instead of Christian Basques), and this "enemy" is incorrectly described as idolators and even worse every single one of the Sarcens are made up. </I><BR/><BR/>Not to mention it was a defeat; Charlemagne lost the entire baggage train, the soldiers guarding it, plus some Gabriele Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17205770868139083575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13989355.post-1147535745710778322006-05-13T15:55:00.000+00:002006-05-13T15:55:00.000+00:00Thanks for your comments.Has I said I don't accept...Thanks for your comments.<BR/><BR/>Has I said I don't accept the written composition theory. The reasons you gave for believing the oral composition hypothesis are reasons commonly given for the oral composition of the Epics. However none of those reasons are conclusive simply because they could be explained by oral sources used in creating a written composition. As I said the main reason givenxibalbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00224952131898257723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13989355.post-1147480203624889782006-05-13T00:30:00.000+00:002006-05-13T00:30:00.000+00:00Thanks! I learned about this on the Ancient Greek ...Thanks! I learned about this on the Ancient Greek course by Assimil a friend of mine lend me the other day.<BR/><BR/>I liked it a lot, I will have to get it and, eventually, learn it! One of my secret fantasies is to be able to read AEschilus or Lucian in the original Greek... :-)<BR/><BR/>I dunno about Illión becoming Troy, but it must have a simple explanation, because the town was called Excaliborhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03198846967026271989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13989355.post-1147468749729420892006-05-12T21:19:00.000+00:002006-05-12T21:19:00.000+00:00Fasinating!I always wondered how Odysseus became U...Fasinating!<BR/><BR/>I always wondered how Odysseus became Ulysses and Iliad, Troy.<BR/><BR/>However your comment concerning Homer composing the Iliad and Odyssey orally, (I've been a one person composed both man myself), that has been subject to dfebate for quite sometime. It has been contebded because of the complexity of the poems that they were composed in writing, in the form we have it xibalbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00224952131898257723noreply@blogger.com