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I had to check if it’s true because it sounds too stupid.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UYcp4QBeGsQ&t=54s&pp=2AE2kAIB
They don’t say it’s signed but do say it’s first edition. It seems like a horrible movie.
Was it perhaps a joke for people in the know?
If it was a joke, did it land?
That’s completely fair
It is pretty bad. I know this because I saw it and forgot what happened in it.
Oh God. I imploded watching that 59 second clip from secondhand cringe.
You can buy a first edition Illiad from Southeby’s for $7,000 right now?
Didn’t we already have this a few months ago? Yeah, it’s stupid but not that stupid, because it could simply refer to one of the many translations of the Iliad, which are still being written and sometimes do receive a new edition after a while. My partner is a classical archeologist, and she would go bonkers if someone gifted her a signed first edition of Emily Wilson’s recent translation of the Iliad.
I got a killer gift idea for your partner
Is it Hector’s body?
“To J-Lo. From your homie Homer.”
“Five dollars? Get outta here.”
Homer’s The Iliad was an oration at first before it was written down hundreds of years later.
Yeah, back then, a signed copy just had an extra Homer quote that only that lineage of the story can use. Otherwise it was a forgery, punishable by two lashes and a reduced fig ration for a week.
That’s because it’s not the IIiad, but the Iliad. I guess it could be the lliad but you usually capitalize book titles I think?
This comment just broke my brain.
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That’s because it’s not the iiiad, but the iliad. I guess it could be the LLIAD but you usually capitalize book titles I think?
Serifs are why I get so angry when I read headlines like “Weird AI is Ruining the World”
No he’s not, he’s a treasure you idiots!
Huh. Well that was a fun way to spend a few minutes this morning.
tldr: It’s an 1884 translation by Alexander Pope.
A signed voice recording - priceless!
To be fair, its probably the writers fault. Although she still says it out loud and probably did a ton of times in case the scene needed repeated recording.
First edition of a translation? First edition by that particular publisher? I don’t see how this is so outrageous.
