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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 18:04:11 -0700
To: classics@u.washington.edu
From: David Lupher <dlupher@ups.edu>
Subject: Re: More Euripidea: Lantern Theater's The Bacchae

Rudy Masciantonio writes:
>I found it enjoyable and moving, though Paul Schmidt's translation seems too
>"Christian" with Zeus being God the Father and Dionysos, the Son of God who
>experiences Transfiguration.

Well, what do you make of Arrowsmith's attempt to turn the makarismos
of lines 72ff. into proto-Beatitudes?
	Blesse'd, blesse'd are those who know the mysteries of god.
	Blesse'd is he who hallows his life in the worship of god....
		ktl. with 6 more blasted "blesse'ds"

> We were given a sheet entitled "A Greek Vocabulary Primer" which is
>a good idea per se, but unfortunately the sheet had several orthographic and
>other errors and did not apply in some respects to the play at hand. They
>should have had a competent classicist review it.

Do productions of the new Stoppard play on Housman tend to have the
proverbial "competent classicist" review the utterances of the actors,
I wonder?  I just witnessed a student production of Stoppard's "Arcadia,"
where they did pretty well with classical names and phrases, for they
*had* consulted a classicist.  But they forgot to check with an English
prof, so "Southey" and "Derby" came out as spelled, and Bernard
was accented on the ultima, despite a generally competent attempt to
mimic English accent.

David Lupher
Classics Dept.
Univ. of Puget Sound




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