The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXVIII

[Traitorfish]

I think "Carl" used to have vaguely aristocratic connotations because it looked a bit more like the Latin "Carolus", so that might explain it.

 

[Arakhor]

Tolni, you expect people named Carlos to either rule half the known world or be massively inbred?

(I think you mean Carolus, TF.)

 

[gay_Aleks]

Or do both at the same time! Although, it was Charles, not Carolus.

 

[Arakhor]

Karl der Große was known in Latin as Carolus Magnus and in French as Charles le Grand or Charlemagne. The name Charles itself is just a French version of the original Anglo-Saxon/Germanic name meaning "free man".

 

[gay_Aleks]

I should have mentioned I meant "Charles V". You know, that one who really liked hanging Dutch Protestants.

 

[Arakhor]

Ah yes. Carlos I of Spain and Karl V of the Holy Roman Empire. A great friend of Martin Luther and Henry VIII.

 

[gay_Aleks]

So friendly, they even decided to give him an even quicker path to predestination!

 

[Gori the Grey]

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I am interested. Personal guidance on such a huge classic, for free? Since I am increasingly interested in literature, that sounds like an offer I should take.

Yes, for free! And I guarantee my tutelage will be worth at least what you pay for it! Or your money back.

But I'd want there to be a group of say four or five people. I suppose the likelihood of that many people all wanting to take up the Iliad at the same time is low. But the offer stands, if we can get a group. I love the poem, and I love introducing people to poems I love.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

I take that as a no. I'll spread the offer to my signature, nevertheless.

 

[Takhisis]

@Gori: But he's paying you nothing!

btw if you switch from Homer to Aristophanēs you have one subscribing Takhisis.

 

[Gori the Grey]

@ Terx, No, it's not a no! And I suppose we could just get started, you and I, and see if others join in. But if it was just the two of us, it would be a kind of funny thread. And more would make it just more fun. Let's wait a while to see if anybody else jumps on board for Professor Gori's Iliad discussion group.

@Tak. Well, Aristophanes would be fun, too. If we can get a group for that, instead or in addition, I'm in. Lysistrata, in particular, is a hoot. Do you know the premise? The women of Greece go on a sex strike to get the men to stop fighting the Peloponesian War. Hilarity ensues.

It'd be nice if there was a way to offer the possibility of a thread, without starting a thread.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

You did it, I am excited again. But I agree in so far as that we should give my billboard some time.
If everything else fails, I shall amuse you with bad German jokes (which are bad).

 

[Hygro]

Still, the Communist Manifesto sounds less impressive if it was written by Carl Marx. It sounds.. so.. bourgeoise. You'd expect a guy with a name "Carl" to own several factories where the poor work in subhuman conditions.

Makes sense given that the other Carls of that era were like, Carl Menger. Not exactly a friend of the revolution.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Btw - just now read your post on classics Hygro and I adore it, all of it. Which is funny since I am one of those inclined to call the praise of classics pretentious. But at the same time, I have been concerned with the plainly laughable state of affairs of modern culture since some time, as well.

 

[Hygro]

Thanks. I think you'll like that author if you haven't come across him already.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

@Tak. Well, Aristophanes would be fun, too. If we can get a group for that, instead or in addition, I'm in. Lysistrata, in particular, is a hoot. Do you know the premise? The women of Greece go on a sex strike to get the men to stop fighting the Peloponesian War. Hilarity ensues.

It was of course considered even more ridiculous when it was written, because that society stereotyped women as having a stronger desire for sex than men and possessing less strength to resist such temptations.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Oh, yeah, it's everything Lysistrata can do to keep her soldiers committed to their resolution.

 

[Civ'ed]

Still, the Communist Manifesto sounds less impressive if it was written by Carl Marx. It sounds.. so.. bourgeoise. You'd expect a guy with a name "Carl" to own several factories where the poor work in subhuman conditions.

I think it's more "we're so used to Karl having written the Manifesto that any other name seems wrong."
Like, Groucho or Johann Marx don't seem to fit the bill either

 

[Takhisis]

Thanks for not putting that in spoiler tags, Gori.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Knowing it won't ruin any of the fun of the play, I promise you.