Bother, I tried to reply but lost what I'd written whilst attempting to google the line from Aeschylus. (And I hope I'm correct in thinking that's the author of Agamemnon.
You are correct. I don't know whose translation Adams quotes:
CHORUS: Why do you cry out thus, unless at some vision of horror? CASSANDRA: The house reeks of death and dripping blood. CHORUS: How so? 'Tis but the odor of the altar sacrifice. CASSANDRA: The stench is like a breath from the tomb.
Just in case we were in doubt as to whether the disregarded Fiver should remind us of any mythical seers . . .
I did read Maia, which, along with US$ 1.96, will get me a grande tea in Starbucks.
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You are correct. I don't know whose translation Adams quotes:
CHORUS: Why do you cry out thus, unless at some vision of horror?
CASSANDRA: The house reeks of death and dripping blood.
CHORUS: How so? 'Tis but the odor of the altar sacrifice.
CASSANDRA: The stench is like a breath from the tomb.
Just in case we were in doubt as to whether the disregarded Fiver should remind us of any mythical seers . . .
I did read Maia, which, along with US$ 1.96, will get me a grande tea in Starbucks.
I've never even heard of Maia. How was it?