‘It’s bawdier in Greek’: A.C. Swinburne’s Subversions of the Hellenic Code ‘It’s bawdier in Greek’ : A.C. Swinburne et les subversions du code hellénique
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Charlotte Ribeyrol, « ‘It’s bawdier in Greek’ : A.C. Swinburne et les subversions du code hellénique », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10.4000/cve.897
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And now,' said Mrs. Sinclair, with a little appealing dainty smile, 'I want to ask you something about the Greek Anthology too. I can't read much Greek myself: but a gentleman who used to be rather kind to me, translated me a good deal of Greek poetry, once upon a time-when my husband,' she said, with a little shrug of the shoulders, 'used to go to sleep after his dinner.' Dr. Jenkinson here glanced suspiciously at Mrs. Sinclair. 'Now, what I want you to tell me,' she said, 'is something about some little-ahem-little love songs, I think they were-ἔρωτικ-something or other-I really can't pronounce the name.' The Doctor started. 'And, Dr. Jenkinson, please,' Mrs. Sinclair went on in a voice of plaintive innocence, 'not to think me a terrible blue-stocking, because I ask you these questions; for I really hardly know any Greek myself-except perhaps a verse or two of the New Testament; and that's not very good Greek, I believe, is it? But the gentleman who translated so much to me, when he came to these little poems I speak of, was continually, though he was a very good scholar, quite unable to translate them. Now, why should that have been, I want to know? Are Greek lovepoems very hard?' 'Well,' said the Doctor, stammering, yet reassured by Mrs. Sinclair's manner, 'they were probably-your friend perhaps-well-they were a little obscure perhaps-much Greek is-or-' 'Corrupt?' suggested Mrs. Sinclair naively.
