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This is also perhaps the best opportunity I'll have to talk about how hilarious 19th century commentaries on Greek and Latin texts can be. In a commentary on Xenophon's Cyropaedia, set in Persia during the childhood of Cyrus the Great, the Victorian commentator footnotes a mention of mascara to say that "In the East, women paint their eyes to this day." My monocle fell into my soup when I heard that one.
Here's her essay talking about her translation:
The study guide SparkNotes describes these women as “disloyal women servants” who must be “executed,” while CliffsNotes calls them “maidservants” who were “disloyal,” and claims that their murder has a “macabre beauty.” In the poem’s original language, Telemachus refers to them only with hai, the feminine article—“those female people who . . . slept beside the suitors.” In my translation, I call them “these girls,” and hope to convey the scene in both its gruesome inhumanity and its pathos: “their heads all in a row, / were strung up with the noose around their necks / to make their death an agony. They gasped, / feet twitching for a while, but not for long.”
By the way, this is only a few dozen lines after Odysseus gives Eurycleia a civility lecture about how it's a major faux pas to celebrate someone's death. (In that case, the someones are all of the suitors, and he brings Eurycleia in to mop up the blood.)
Are they all like this? Caitlin Flanagan has said the same thing. I think. Google is failing me right now and I can't find sources for either.
They wrote that one after arguing in the comments of the first one
It's more than a little suspicious that he's been lying in state and hasn't withered away.
I couldn't find the image today but the last time I saw a photo of one of those it had a timer on it. Not sure which direction the timer was going - the implications could have been either "You have 1:53 left to achieve enlightenment" or "Your pay will be docked for 1:53".
Is there a Gavin Newsom Veto Excuse generator?
Went searching for more information about the DoD directive that @nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net posted about the other day and came across this:
Rumors rapidly spreading about reissued Department of Defense Directive 5240.01
So look forward to new talking points from "well, actually " columnists telling us that the directive doesn't mean what it says?
In part, these rumors’ spread may be the result of a data void — a situation where there is no reliable information available about a particular topic in search results or social media platforms. At this time, there are no published fact-checks of any of the core allegations or any official statements addressing the rumors. This absence of information has allowed influencers on social media, right-wing media outlets, and conspiracy theory-focused blogs to fill the void with conspiratorial frames about the document’s intent and implications for the election.
The multi-platform and multi-partisan spread, increased engagement by political influencers, and integration into broader conversations speculating about political violence around the upcoming election signal that these rumors will be important to watch — and potentially address with fact checks and explanations — in the coming days and weeks.
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