Amazon Customer

Sophoclean Rhythm

Revisado: 01-17-15

Where does The Trachinian Tragedy: Women of Trachis rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Have not heard many dramas from Audible

What did you like best about this story?

The speeches by Herakles when he is struggling for his life. The translation is ennobling here, of Miltonic impetus.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The description how Lichas was killed or when Deianeira realizes her mistake.

Any additional comments?

This is an excerpt from a book about Sophoclean language, that it is not artless or unstylized or unpoetically easy, as transpositions are the rule in him:

“It would be absurd to represent Sophocles as an eccentric writer.
But he made subtle use of a material full of subtlety, which was
plastic to his touch, and the resulting lines are more difficult to trace
than those which have been impressed by some generally accepted
mould.’ ‘Sophocles is distinguished in point of syntax from other
contemporary writers chiefly by his noble sense of harmony and by
the combination of extreme refinement with moderation and sim-
plicity/ With passages like the ones quoted here from the Introductory'
Essay 'On the language of Sophocles’ to his edition of Sophocles, Lewis Campbell set the tone for all subsequent work
on the syntax of Sophocles. Although the language in which they
are put is less high-flown than that of Campbell, the judgments of
e.g. Moorhousc (1982} and Lloyd-Jones & Wilson are basically sim-
ilar. Thus, Moorhouse writes in the preface to his Syntax of Sophocles
(p. xiii): The end result (viz. of the ways in which Sophocles com-
bines ‘old-fashioned’ constructions with innovations) is an unusually
rich and varied collection of uses.' And Lioydjones & Wilson remark,
while discussing the difficulties one encounters in editing Sophocles’
text: There are many passages where it is
scarcely possible to know what the author wrote, since he took plea-
sure in experimenting with the syntactical resources of Attic Greek...’.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

Listen to it many times

Revisado: 11-09-14

What made the experience of listening to Oedipus the King the most enjoyable?

The more I heard it the more I understood it. The first time was difficult. The third tiem, a few days later, was very moving.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Tiresia. He tells the truth to Oedipus and is abused for it.

What does Alex Hyde-White bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

In the second half he is truly an actor for Greek tragedy and the horror of it allo.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

It may be too overwhelming for one sitting.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

esto le resultó útil a 1 persona

Who owns Russia

Revisado: 11-09-14

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes, few Americans understand what Putin is.

What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?

The revelation of Putin's pervicacious thievery.

What does Robert Petkoff bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

I would not have time to read the book.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Description of Putin's maneuvering in 1998-9 for the highest office.

Any additional comments?

Russia may never recover from kleptocracy.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

esto le resultó útil a 13 personas

Who are these famous sophists?

Revisado: 09-26-13

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes, to disabuse him of the fulsome celebrity that these characters have won.

Who was your favorite character and why?

The author, for he outgrew his adolescent sentiments and knew a number of these characters who held on to their opinionated adolescence.

What about Frederick Davidson’s performance did you like?

Davidson is one of my favorite narrators. He did Paradise Lost for Blackstone.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The description of Rousseau was memorable. Also Shelley.

Any additional comments?

A number of chapters I should like to hear again.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

esto le resultó útil a 3 personas

pro and contra

Revisado: 10-01-12

Where does The Hour Between Dog and Wolf rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

It could have been more satisfactory.

What did you like best about this story?

The description of trading US bonds and the different styles of traders.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No

Any additional comments?

The final chapter was incongruous and ill considered. He implies that castrated men would make better traders than those with the usual testosterone.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

esto le resultó útil a 2 personas

Stretching the topic

Revisado: 08-06-12

If you could sum up Sync in three words, what would they be?

The subject of this book is synchronicity in nature, and perhaps the author stretches the meaning of the word to fit chaos theory and other sectors of physics. He is contrary to the Jungian thoughts of synchornicity and of scientists who favor Jung.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

An Education

Revisado: 04-20-12

Where does Start-Up Nation rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

The Israelis may have the sharpest culture in the world, which I did not know before I heard this book.

If you could give Start-Up Nation a new subtitle, what would it be?

A Country of Clever Resolution

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña