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[minervasolo]

My latin translation for this week got a lot easier once I remembered I'd already done it. About a year ago, in my defence. Virgil wrote about the same myth, but some of Ovid's turns of phrase are pretty memoriable: "The quiet upward sloping path being seized by silence, hard, dark, opaque with dense mist".

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[rhube.livejournal.com]

Woo! Shiny translation. Makes me wanna go read the stuff myself!

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

Ovid is good. Great with imagery, and a cool sense of humour. The Metamorphoses (what I'm translating) are a bit scary, because it's hundreds and hundreds of myths all piled on top of each other, all linked in such a way there's no breathing space. The 'book' breaks always happen midstory. He's basically taking the piss out of epics, but it's a bit of a headlong rush, and it's hard to remember all the names. On the other hand, about 50% of the myths are easily recognisable: he's where we get all of our non-Homer greek and latin myths from these days.