Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Plato, Parmenides & Aeneid

I always wanted to begun an original post which would contain
as much as possible of interesting & engaging material. Therefore
I started, this time with more serious English my almost daily
tests.

Recently I've finished entire works by Plato, obtain nice Dictionary
of Philosophy & established my sequel of my future thesis.

As a most valuable recent readings beside Kirkegaard and Kafka,
whom I will take place later, I fell in love with Aeneid translated by
John Dryden. I simply cannot not quote from the very beginning:

--
Arms, and the man, I sing, who forced by Fate,
And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate,
Expelled and exiled , left the  Trojan shore.

There are more lines much beautiful. Interesting point, by the way is, that
English professors usually pronounce Byron's Don Joan Don John. I just
found it interesting.

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