Madam, I object to thee:
You perpetrate synecdoche.

"Milman Parry once wrote: 'Matter-of-fact Hesiod in his Works and Days . . . said only what he had to say, and as a result he will never be too interesting.' I for my part do not presume to tell the reader how much interest there is in Hesiod for him.  But I will say that in the eighteen years since I began to study this inexhaustible poem in ( Read more... )

My spell-check suggests that perhaps by "heteroglossia" I mean "trollish."

Linux is so weird sometimes.

I wrote three pages (my first three new pages in over a month) and all of a sudden I'm excited about my thesis again.

A few years ago, I had the crushing realization over the course of a paper for Greek history that whether or not my argument was persuasive depended entirely on in what order I set it out.  This was true at every level: at the level ( Read more... )

Abundant water, fire, and people every night, and turn light golden.

A spectre is haunting the study of Homer - the spectre of metrical determination.

A metrical text is more writable (in the Bartesian sense) than an unmetrical text - at least if we assume a certain degree of stability in each.

(606) 878-4540

This number is a cell phone based in London, KY and is unpublished.

metri gratia →
metri causa by catalexis

John Miles Foley claims:
artis causa, not metri causa

Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer claims:
ars gratia artis

Dick Tron claims:
ars artis gratia

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Ch' i' non vo' dir di lei; ma chi la scorge,
tutto 'l cor di dolcezza e d' amor gl' empie:
tanto n' à seco, e tant' altrui ne porge...