10/25: Latin & Greek

A guest lecture at a Little Rock high school where a former student teaches gave me the opportunity/excuse to look at the Greek of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter and notice some awesome things about the way its opening is constructed.

And in Latin today I noticed how some of the strategies used by Seneca in the messenger's speech in Phaedra are like the ones used by the author of Revelation/Apocalypse.  With what words can one describe the indescribable?

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