Monday, March 11, 2024
Remembrance of Stings Past
Peter Green, From Ikaria to the Stars: Classical Mythification, Ancient and Modern (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004), p. 140:
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Greeks and Irishmen have always had a special talent for μνησικακία, the nursing of ancient wrongs.Although the noun is rarely attested in ancient Greek, the corresponding verb μνησικακέω is not uncommon, according to the dictionaries.
