Tuesday, March 27, 2018
A Son Superior to His Father
Homer, Odyssey 2.276-277 (tr. Richmond Lattimore):
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For few are the children who turn out to be equals of their fathers,One of the better few was Periphetes, son of Kopreus — see Homer, Iliad 15.641-643 (tr. Richmond Lattimore):
and the greater number are worse; few are better than their father is.
παῦροι γάρ τοι παῖδες ὁμοῖοι πατρὶ πέλονται,
οἱ πλέονες κακίους, παῦροι δέ τε πατρὸς ἀρείους.
To him, a meaner father, was born a son who was betterRelated posts:
for all talents, in the speed of his feet and in battle
and for intelligence counted among the first in Mykenai.
τοῦ γένετ᾽ ἐκ πατρὸς πολὺ χείρονος υἱὸς ἀμείνων
παντοίας ἀρετάς, ἠμὲν πόδας ἠδὲ μάχεσθαι,
καὶ νόον ἐν πρώτοισι Μυκηναίων ἐτέτυκτο.
