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Day: September 10, 2016

Which variant of Greek is being used in Alexandros Pallis’ translation of the Iliad?

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Original wording: Which dialect (hesitate to call it that) of Greek is being used in this translation of the Iliad? You do well, my synonomatos [fellow Nick], to hesitate: “dialect” is not quite the right thing to call it. This is the 1904 translation of the Iliad by Alexandros Pallis. A Liverpudlian Greek like our […]