Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Return to Ithaca
Homer, Odyssey I. Edited with an Introduction, Translation, Commentary, and Glossary by Simon Pulleyn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), p. 132 (on line 88):
I noticed another misprint on p. 65 (translation of line 63):
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ἰθάκηνδ᾽ ἐσελεύσομαι. As between this and the MS variant ἰθάκην ἐσελεύσομαι, the form with -δε is to be preferred after ἐλεύσομαι (cf. Od. 17.52, Il. 6.365). ἰθάκηνδε ἐλεύσομαι is possible at the caesura (S.R. West 1988: 86) but has no MS attestation, being a conjecture of Ahrens.I see no reason for the lower-case initial iotas here with the proper name Ithaca. Read Ἰθάκηνδ᾽, Ἰθάκην, and Ἰθάκηνδε.
I noticed another misprint on p. 65 (translation of line 63):
In reply to her spoke Zeus, the gather of clouds:For gather read gatherer (a good example of haplography).
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