Thursday, April 14, 2016

 

Strange Sentences in Scholarly Works

Jasper Griffin, Homer on Life and Death (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980), p. 177:
Heroes do not, in general, turn into anteaters, or make themselves buttocks out of mashed potatoes...
Judith Fletcher, Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), p. 205, n. 6:
It is Inlaw's anus that is singed here, although why that should be necessary is difficult to say.



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