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ΕΝ ΚΑΙ ΔΕΚΑ (ten plus one)

few weeks ago by publishing the post I titled Ten ten , promised to develop an entry similar to the case of Greek literature, the subject proper of this blog .

As in the previous post, my intention in this is to propose a list setting out the works that I consider to be basic (representing essential ...) of Greek literature from antiquity. He wanted me limited (pure economics) to the limit of ten references, but I have exceeded, hence the post title.

kaì deka hen is not normally say in Greek "once" ( héndeka ) and is, in effect, a "ten plus one." Of course, the result is the same, but the expression indicates that one element is displaced, uncertain position.
One, "or two?

Before further explanations can be more grateful to see directly what the titles suggest:

Homer

Iliad Homer, Odyssey

Sappho Poetry

Pindar, Olympic

Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

Euripides, Medea

Aristophanes, Birds

Menander The wayward

Theocritus, Idylls

Plutarco, Alejandro. César

Longo, Dafnis y Cloe

Paso ahora a las apostillas, que intentaré sean breves. Espero que en los comentarios haya ocasión de discutir más cuestiones:

• Me imagino que habrá cierto acuerdo a la hora de entender que el intruso del listado es El díscolo de Menandro . ¿Por qué este autor y por qué esta obra? Incluyo a Menandro porque, a diferencia de lo que ocurre con Aristófanes, de él procede toda la comedia occidental, pasando por Plauto hasta llegar the comedy film of S. XXI. Why The wayward , which was certainly not his best work? For one thing clear: it is the only comedy of Menander to retain integrity.

• The question of the "entire work" invites us to focus our attention on the poetry of Sappho that also singled in the listed as only fragmentary work. Although my intention was to include only complete texts that have come to us, I think it was justified to make an exception in the case of one who appears here as a representative Greek lyric poetry.

• In the canon of novels that I proposed in Ten ten , a reader discovered some redundancies. And, similarly, can someone decides that it is also repetitive welcome here the two Homeric epics. I pray that I be permitted a non petita excusatio . The Iliad is an epic tragedy whose events beyond the control of their characters, the Odyssey however, opens the happy ending in the literature of the West. The interested reader can find something else sobre ello en este libro .

• Quiero explicar (y termino) una incongruencia. En Diez de diez escogí la obra de Heliodoro como una de las diez novelas básicas de la historia. ¿Que por qué no la incluyo ahora y pongo en su lugar el Dafnis y Cloe? Porque me parece que también era bueno darle una oportunidad a Longo . 

Sólo recomiendo, de verdad, que nadie se lo lea pensando que es un libro para señoritas.

José B. Torres Guerra