Re: Sophocles Antigone - Question re English/German translations

Hi Patrick,
Thanks very much - appreciated!
With that I may be able to track down my main quarry: German translations
that take a different path to Holderlin.
Wondrous dreadful dinosaurs. Cool. So that's the true origin of so much
philospical wonder... :-)
Patrick


On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 2:10 PM Patrick Rourke <[email protected]> wrote=
:

> For instance, this article
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> 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 [
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> (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 fr=
om
> > which "dinosaur" was formed. There's a long literature about the ode, a=
nd
> > that phrase, and a google search of "polla ta deina antigone" should ge=
t
> > you a foot in the door.
> >
> > Patrick Rourke
> >
> >
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