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Re:Eros at Play by jazzyjackson on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @12:50PM (#20868472)
The internet works in mysterious ways, I just discovered Sappho's poetry for myself yesterday - here's 2 opposing performances of the same poem, [1] a recreation of the ancient greek and lyre, and [2] a well done english translation with electronic gesture-controlled harmonization (of Imogen Heap fame). It's really been dragging me into wanting to learn more about ancient people -- how little has changed !

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOlIqozu3Fg

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks19HI3r2yQ

(Translation side note, a few of the translations I've seen take "χλωροτέρα δὲ ποίας ἔμμι" to mean "I'm greener than the grass", whereas [2] skillfully places the meaning as "I'm paler than the grass drying", next line is "yes it seems I am dying", does anyone know why this would be a common mistake?

All I know is χλωρο is "Chloro" as in Chlorophyll !)

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Re:Eros at Play by Someone on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @08:15PM (#20872727)
”All I know is χλωρο is "Chloro" as in Chlorophyll”

It also is “Chlor” as in Chlorine (the element). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine says that’s a ”pale yellow-green gas”

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Re:Eros at Play by cafard on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @03:10PM (#20870022)
It seems to me that Ronald Knox's On Englishing the Bible remarks that the "pale horse" of Revelations is "chloros" in the Greek.
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Re:Eros at Play by jazzyjackson on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @04:50PM (#20871014)
Oh very interesting, thanks for the tip

It seems this may be related to that wine-dark sea of homeric greek, I'm seeing some references that Chloros is also used to describe the color of honey ! a pale yellow, so that chloros might be more about brightness than hue.

Another aeon article goes into detail... https://aeon.co/essays/can-we-hope-to-understand-how-the-gre...

thanks again

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