Re: Sophocles Antigone - Question re English/German translations

For instance, this article https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F4349759&data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7Cffc03e99fb0b413e070508d77cb17ddf%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C1%7C637114974073638848&sdata=Tr2kTkpsIzZlF1CPL2%2F5hwR0Dcs2E9alk0ayMkicosM%3D&reserved=0
<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F4349759%3Fseq%3D1%23metadata_info_tab_contents&amp;data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7Cffc03e99fb0b413e070508d77cb17ddf%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C1%7C637114974073638848&amp;sdata=sPDLyxZuaJUgjWDpGrvPAxhQkklSRGKhgQcLSeB3nY8%3D&amp;reserved=0> talks
about the relationship between the Sophocles phrase and the line of
Aeschylus that Jebb compares it to.

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 9:07 AM Patrick Rourke <[email protected]> wrote:

> The words are polla ta deina in Greek - "many are the wonders/terrors";
> Jebb in his abridged commentary [https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flccn.loc.gov%2F03031510&amp;data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7Cffc03e99fb0b413e070508d77cb17ddf%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C1%7C637114974073638848&amp;sdata=hicJZKbEmCedKe8%2FjdlJpDBVEzOmMWmNbQ4xTPqnK6E%3D&amp;reserved=0] (note on
> line 332) translates it as "wonder," but notes a line in Aeschylus's
> Choephoroi where it would be translated "dread." It is the same word from
> which "dinosaur" was formed. There's a long literature about the ode, and
> that phrase, and a google search of "polla ta deina antigone" should get
> you a foot in the door.
>
> Patrick Rourke
>
>

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