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LESSON 2 - Second Part / First Part
ACHILLES' GRIEF - From Homer's Iliad

by George Valsamis

This painting and description, this penetration into the deepest meanings and relations, already present in the first Greek literary work, a work of poetry, will characterise all the important works of Greek literature and not only philosophy. The primary interest in achieving inside language, inside memory and speech, the closest possible depiction of the οὐσίαν ὄντος, places a certain task upon anyone who might want to learn Greek. Words can not be treated like exchangeable conventions; they incarnate the concepts. I can not translate them without giving birth to a more or less different meaning. It takes a lot of care to minimize the distance. Learning Greek will prove beneficial to the way you treat all languages from now on.

 

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