Soooo, this is the thing I mentioned last post, the Sappho poem that struck me and reminded me of the Dalish elves and which I have translated and slightly adapted to be actually relevant to the Dalish. Um. I have retained as much of the original as possible, because what really drew me to it initially was the descriptions of nature in it, and ( Read more... )

In hopes that it'll help me study for tomorrow's Latin exam, I have tinkered with my translation of the poem on which we're being tested. This is lines 76-131 of Catullus' #64, which is an epic in dactylic hexameter that he wrote about the wedding of Peleus and Thetis; the segment that we're translating is from the ekphrasis of a tapestry that ( Read more... )

I present to you, Herodotus' Histories, through paragraph six of Book One. Copious editing and re-editing has rendered this into something that sort of resembles acceptable English, so please forgive the fact that all of the interesting things about the Greek prose that he uses just don't work in English all that well ( Read more... )

Continued from this post, I give you more of my translation of Plato's Apology. Accuracy not guaranteed.

( Plato's Apology, 18c8 to d7 )

IT RAINED. I am so happy.

Also, Plato is kicking my ass tonight, so I thought I'd procrastinate by posting my translation of the first half of the paragraph that I'm currently working on. Some notes are added for context; I've kept grammatical quirks as literal as possible because I want to pass on my annoyance. I make no guarantees as to how ( Read more... )