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GSilky t1_jaubiqc wrote

It's only difficult if you are looking for something that wasn't there. Nobody until now seems to have difficulties with translating gender.

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MeatballDom OP t1_javjtkc wrote

How would you translate this passage without gender?

>ὣς εἰποῦσ’ ὑπὸ ποσσὶν ἐδήσατο καλὰ πέδιλα . . . βῆ δὲ κατ’ Οὐλύμποιο καρήνων ἀΐξασα, στῆ δ’ Ἰθάκης ἐνὶ δήμωι ἐπὶ προθύροις Ὀδυσῆος, οὐδοῦ ἔπ’ αὐλείου, παλάμηι δ’ ἔχε χάλκεον ἔγχος, εἰδομένη ξείνωι, Ταφίων ἡγήτορι Μέντηι. . . . τὴν δὲ πολὺ πρῶτος ἴδε Τηλέμαχος θεοειδής ...

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