(urth) New Wolfe Listing on Amazon

[Pedro Pereira]

That is certainly true. After all, if most academia researchers have misused the term for such a long time it is certainly possible that Latro could have too. But I think that Wolfe was simply using the meaning that has been erroneously used for a long time in academia. He can't certainly be blamed on that. 
 
Pedro> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 18:30:44 -0400> From: fqgouvea at colby.edu> To: urth at lists.urth.net> Subject: Re: (urth) New Wolfe Listing on Amazon> > Remember that Wolfe has Latro call Sparta "Rope". That's a false > etymology as well, but the idea is that it is one that Latro might have > come up with.> > Fernando> > Pedro Pereira wrote:> > > Another thing is the translation of the word "hoplite". It doesn't mean > > "shield man" and in fact the word does not derive from "shield". This is > > a misuse of the term that has plagued the academia for a long time and > > is now beying droped from use. "Hoplon", "hopla", etc could mean any one > > part of the equipment (armor) of the hoplite or his equipment (armor) as > > a whole. A better translation of "hoplite" would simply be "heavily > > armored infantryman" instead of the term used in Wolfe (shieldman) which > > is a wrong interpretation of the ancient greek meaning of the word. But > > Wolfe ofcourse could not know that since the article that brought the > > academia's attention to this issue was published after the first books > > were published.> > -- > =============================================================> Fernando Q. Gouvea> Carter Professor of Mathematics> Colby College Editor, MAA FOCUS> 5836 Mayflower Hill Editor, MAA Reviews> Waterville, ME 04901 http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/19/> http://www.colby.edu/~fqgouvea> > We think that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we > are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.> -- Gene Wolfe, in The Shadow of the Torturer> > _______________________________________________> Urth Mailing List> To post, write urth at urth.net> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net
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