One of two because I forgot last week

Hello, first blog post.
I'm glad the blogging age has ended because I would have died a horrific death in that world. Not good at keeping a diary or remembering things or thinking other people care what I have to say.

Anyway.

After three years of avoiding it, I'm finally enrolled in Global Literature to 1500. It's really great as a reaffirmation that I should not have gone into Classics, but let's just say that if it was not a requirement, I would not be taking it. I hope it's not cheating to write about another class's reading. I probably won't do it again (except maybe for my Screenwriting class).

The problem with any Greek classic is that it's a translation. Even if it was modern Greek to modern English, it wouldn't get the nuance of the language quite right. (I had a brief stint as a combined Linguistics major and therefore I'm very, very qualified. Jokes.) Not to bash translators; it's hard and interesting work and they do great things for society, yada yada yada. But my eyes glaze over every time I open Trojan Women. And it has "women" in the title! It's about women! Sure, at the time this play was written, Greek families were still putting their newborn girls out on the porch to die overnight, but still. Women.

It doesn't help that I'm reading actually compelling plays for my Playwriting class. (Let's not judge my class choices, okay, I am ((like always)) trying to suppress winter depression through zany writing courses.)

I think my main problem is that I know all of these stories. I know about ancient Greece and Rome. I had to read the Oedipus trilogy in 9th grade. I been here, done that. I'd rather learn about other old dusty writers that I haven't studied before.


I think the silver lining of this course is that I know everyone in this class knows all their mythological stuff from reading the Percy Jackson books (which don't really fully adhere to classic Greek mythology) and my professor has no idea. Someone in class said 'naiad' and the look on his face...priceless. Also, he's a very nice professor and this scathing review of Classics is not reflective of him.

Okay okay okay, gotta go, see you later today for another post.