Math Rap

6 Responses to Math Rap

1. Kajetan Wandowicz says:

   April 13, 2011 at 3:35 pm

   The alpha should carry the acute accent, as it finishes the phrase. True, in the original you have “θεὰ”, but that is only because after the goddess follows more text belonging to the same phrase. If you want to finish a rap rhyme with it, the acute accent is the one to go with.

   On second thought, you know what? Scratch that crap, it’s late here and my accent pedantry kicks in. The rhyme is pretty awesome.

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2. Morris Keesan says:

   April 13, 2011 at 9:14 pm

   Google translate says that this means “wrath aeide goddess”. I’m sure I’m missing something.

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   • Kajetan Wandowicz says:

     April 14, 2011 at 11:27 am

     Google Translate translates Greek, and this is Ancient Greek. Those are pretty much totally different. Not like, for example, English and Shakespearean Early Modern English, but more like English and Old English.

     And the words are the first three words of Homer’s Iliad, and they mean: “Sing, o Goddess, the wrath”, the unquoted second part of the first verse being Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος (meaning “of Achilles, son of Peleus”).

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   • Rylan says:

     April 16, 2011 at 9:56 am

     It’s the first line of the illiad. “Sing, maiden, of the wrath of Achilles” is the complete version

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3. Devilbob says:

   April 19, 2011 at 1:39 am

   @Morris

   It’s from the opening lines to the Iliad.

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4. Sergio says:

   May 14, 2011 at 9:18 am

   Would you be rapping in dactylic hexameter?

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