Thursday, October 04, 2018

 

Self-Destruction

Homer, Odyssey 1.7 (tr. Peter Green):
It was through their own blind recklessness that they perished...

αὐτῶν γὰρ σφετέρῃσιν ἀτασθαλίῃσιν ὄλοντο...
According to Stephanie West ad loc., ἀτασθαλίη "denotes behavior for which men not only suffer but deserve to suffer, culpable recklessness implying a selfish disregard for the decencies of human life."

Pierre Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque, I (Paris: Klincksieck, 1968), p. 132, s.v. ἀτάσθαλος:


Robert Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, I (Leiden: Brill, 2010), p. 161, s.v. ἀτάσθαλος (correct irresistable to irresistible and desparate to desperate):




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