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minus-squaregroet@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up108·1 month agoIts exactly the other way round. Odysseus was a common name, Odyssey didn’t exist as a word. So the travels of John are the Johnenning and everybody just accepts that as a new word afterwards.
minus-squareGlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30arrow-down1·1 month agoLook man, if John killed a giant one-eyed monster and sailed to where the dragons lived, I would happily call an epic journey a Johnenning.
minus-squarefibojoly@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down8·1 month agoThe Aeneid came before the Odyssey, so it wasn’t even an original take or anything!
minus-squarecorvi@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up14·1 month agoWhile it’s still probably not wholly original, the Odyssey is about 8 centuries older than the Aeneid.
minus-squarefibojoly@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·1 month agoIs it? Dammit that’s what I get for posting without checking. My Latin teacher would be… well, she wouldn’t surprised I fucked up. Probably even pleased I remembered her lessons from thirty five years ago. Ah well, thanks for the correction.
minus-squareUruanna@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month agoThe hint was that the Aeneid is Roman and the Odyssey is Greek. Greece is centuries before the Romans.
minus-squarefibojoly@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoIndeed, that was my thought as I replied above. Clearly that was like me saying Ovid had copied La Fontaine with his tales of animals…
Its exactly the other way round. Odysseus was a common name, Odyssey didn’t exist as a word.
So the travels of John are the Johnenning and everybody just accepts that as a new word afterwards.
Look man, if John killed a giant one-eyed monster and sailed to where the dragons lived, I would happily call an epic journey a Johnenning.
The Aeneid came before the Odyssey, so it wasn’t even an original take or anything!
While it’s still probably not wholly original, the Odyssey is about 8 centuries older than the Aeneid.
Is it? Dammit that’s what I get for posting without checking. My Latin teacher would be… well, she wouldn’t surprised I fucked up. Probably even pleased I remembered her lessons from thirty five years ago.
Ah well, thanks for the correction.
The hint was that the Aeneid is Roman and the Odyssey is Greek. Greece is centuries before the Romans.
Indeed, that was my thought as I replied above. Clearly that was like me saying Ovid had copied La Fontaine with his tales of animals…
And centuries after ;)