From laval@hum.uva.nl Wed Mar 31 05:55:40 1999 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id FAA43566 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 05:55:39 -0800 Received: from bs22.bs.uva.nl (bs22.bs.uva.nl [145.18.228.21]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id FAA30210 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 05:55:38 -0800 Received: from otm056020.hum.uva.nl (otm056020.hum.uva.nl [145.18.56.20]) by bs22.bs.uva.nl (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA22944 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 15:55:36 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <3.0.2.16.19990331155635.2e578a44@mail.hum.uva.nl> X-Sender: laval@mail.hum.uva.nl X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.2 (16) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 15:56:35 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Re: Iliad/Ilias In-Reply-To: References: <37005B38.26BCBD73@netsgo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:35 30-03-99 +0200, Rainer Thiel wrote: >[ ... ] >But the philellenic movement and classical philology of >the 19th and early 20th century induced German scholars to >go back to a transliteration of the Greek names rather than >using the traditional Latin and Romance forms. Hence *Ilias* >is now common in Germany, while *Iliade* is clearly antiquated. >[ ... ] "Ilias" is also in Dutch the only form used, and I don't think that it was ever uncommon (but it's not my own language), though I have seen the form "Iliade" in at least one 19th- century publication. The poet is here always called "Homerus" [sic]. Oddly enough, "Odyssee" is here however now more common than "Odyssea". I sort of like the Russian form. Remember the 1978 translation which bore the title "Gomer Iliada"? ~~~~~~~~~ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . /| //| R. Laval Hunsucker /#| Bibliotheek (Humaniora / UB), Univ. v. Amsterdam /#| Amsterdam - Nederland [E.U.] /#| hunsucker@uba.uva.nl /#| laval@hum.uva.nl /#| tel. (31-20) 525-2498 ; 525-2550 ; 525-2477 /#| fax (31-20) 525-2311 ; 525-2544 /#| [ _Aiolos_: ] /#| /# ----------------------------------------------------------------- /################################################################## /////////////////// / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / .