rotassator is currently reading Wikipedia Tour: The Grand Tour and The Wisdom of (Steve) Jobs.
I’m male, from Australia. I’ve been a DailyLit member since March 22, 2008.
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The Iliad - What's the deal with the Roman names?
I'm constantly annoyed with this translation at having to translate the Roman names of gods and goddesses back into the proper Greek names, *as the author originally wrote*.
For the record, here are the proper Greek names of gods, goddesses and heroes as they should be (as opposed to the translation) in alphabetical order:
- Aesculapius => Asclepius (god)
- Bacchus => Dionysus (god)
- Ceres => Demeter (goddess)
- Diana => Artemis (goddess)
- Hercules => Heracles (hero)
- Jove (Jupiter) => Zeus (god)
- Juno => Hera (goddess)
- Mercury => Hermes (god)
- Minerva => Athena (goddess)
- Neptune => Poseidon (god)
- Saturn => Chronus (god)
- Ulysses => Odysseus (hero)
- Venus => Aphrodite (goddess)
- Vulcan => Hephaestus (god)
Feel free to add more if I've missed any. :)