Interesting
Emily Wilson completely changed the meaning of a key word in the Odyssey to make it seem like Helen of Troy didn't blame herself for starting the Trojan War, when in fact the text makes it clear that she did.
In 4.145-146, Helen calls herself κυνώπιδος (dog-faced). This is an insult meaning "shameless." It is commonly used to refer to unfaithful lovers. For example, it is used elsewhere in the Odyssey (8.319) to refer to Aphrodite after she cheats on Hephaestus with Ares.
Fagles translates 4.145-146 to: "all you Achaeans fought at Troy, launching your headlong battles just for my sake, shameless whore that I was.”
Lattimore translates 4.145-146 to: "for the sake of shameless me, the Achaians went beneath Troy, their hearts intent upon reckless warfare."
Wilson completely changes the meaning of κυνώπιδος to "hounded" (she is trying to be cute by translating 'dog-faced' to a word that still relates to dogs, even though its actual meaning is completely unrelated). She then applies this word to the Achaeans, saying that they were hounded, not Helen. Her translation is in the image below.
This is obviously an ideological change that she made because she personally believes Helen shouldn't be blamed for the Trojan War. She deliberated distorted the meaning of one of the foundational texts of Western literature to conform with her modern beliefs.
Beautiful testimony
This is my mother on my wedding day. Look at how much she loved me. My life meant more to her than the trauma of the rape that produced me. She told me that the minute she held me after I was born, the trauma was gone forever and replaced by the love she felt for me. We went on to give her 2 granddaughters and 3 great grandsons. Her love left a legacy of a continuing family. Please don't abort your future happiness. No baby deserves a death sentence.
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Given current market conditions, what would be a good price for me to buy a Kia Carnival with an MSRP of $49,815 for?
Very cool
Upon this visit of King Charles III, I’m reminded of the remarks of King George III, upon receiving John Adams for the first time in 1785.
His words are remarkable for their generosity after having fought and lost a war, and his understanding for the basis of friendship between Americans and English still holds true today:
“I wish you Sir, to believe, and that it may be understood in America, that I have done nothing in the late Contest, but what I thought myself indispensably bound to do, by the Duty which I owed to my People. I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the Separation, but the Separation having been made and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the Friendship of the United States as an independent Power. . . let the Circumstances of Language; Religion and Blood have their natural and full Effect.”
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What we have are:
•The assassination of Charlie Kirk.
•Two assassination attempts on Donald Trump by known progressives, plus a third in Butler, PA, where the kid was clearly mentally ill.
•The attempted assassination of Brett Kavanaugh.
•The attempted assassination of Josh Shapiro and his family.
•The attack upon the Alvaredo, Texas ICE facility that left a local police officer wounded.
•The attack upon the McAllen, Texas ICE facility that left three officers injured.
•The attack on the Dallas, Texas ICE facility that left one dead and others critically wounded.
•And what CNN calls “Rep. Steve Scalise shot,” which was actually a mass assassination attempt on 24 Republican members of Congress, in which 4 people, including Congressman Scalise, were shot by James Hodgkinson.
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It's beyond troubling that political violence against those whom we disagree, and do not like, has become a growing form of political protest. As much as some people detested Clinton, Obama, and Biden, no one ever shot at them in public.
The Catholic Left's obsession with capital punishment is odd. In the United States last year, there were less than 50 executions. Yet, there were approximately one million abortions. By any reasonable measure, the overwhelming focus should be on abortion not capital punishment.
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"This is very impressive. This is a six-run game. This guy has homered in four straight games and he gives you everything he's got."
Steve Stone on Murakami on this infield single
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Yep. Gay surrogacy does get more attention because the children don't just lose their birth mother, they lose their genetic mother and are purposefully starved of daily maternal love. They're also at greater risk of abuse because they are always raised by at least one (if not two) unrelated men- statistically, the most dangerous person in a child's life.
But there are myriad accounts decrying surrogacy for everyone.
@SurrogConcern @CasaDeclaration @maurel_olivia @JenniferLahl @kal_fell
It commodifies children and severs the primal bond they have with their birth mother. It's always an injustice against children. Even when heterosexuals do it.
3,000 births every year are through surrogacy- and the majority of them are heterosexual couples.
Tim- why don’t you call out surrogacy in general since you feel so strongly about this?
Seems silly to focus on the small pool of gay couples using a surrogate when a much larger swath of people are doing the same thing who aren’t gay.
So what’s up with that?
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I hope God considers the anger and hatred I feel about the entire surrogacy industry as righteous bc my internal thoughts about it are extreme 💀
