Who is your favorite woman author?
>>24936245
the GOAT
Gemmy
>>24936245Picrel
>>24936409Came here to post Arendt
>>24936409catfish pic
>>24936245For me it's the dead ones that everyone has forgotten about.
>>24936488Hypatia?
>>24936427Yeah I know
>>24936427Naw she just hit the wall hard af
>>24936536Nope, you remembered her.
Homer
>>24936427Gunther Anders never recovered from this
>>24936646Would technically be Homera
>>24936245Why would you read a woman author?
Surely, Jackson.
>>24936427>>24936406Goddayum you weren’t lying.
James Joyce
J K ROWLING
>>24936569She hit the wall? This roastie lost her rizz and her gyatt? Its called getting old, idiot.
>>24936245Muriel Sparks.
>>24937076Still would. She chained smoked so you could smoke some cigs in bed with her after sex while you talk about political theory and what sex with Heidegger was like.
>>24936817Homer isn't gendered
>>24936569Christ, I hate children.
>>24937356can’t imagine a worse evening.
>>24937405She didn’t have kids lol
>>24937375It is though
>>24938608it isn’t though, Greek doesn’t make female names by adding -a
>>24938618-a would be the appropriate Latinization of -ηNote Homer's name in AGr. is Ὅμηρος with the appropriate masculine suffix -ος
>>24938629I don't speak squiggles, sir.Or ma'am.
>>24938629only when the Greek name actually ends in -η. Homer’s name does not. There is no feminine form of Ὅμηρος attested, and you don’t just replace -ος with -η to create one. That’s not how personal names work.
>>24938691>There is no feminine form of Ὅμηρος attestedYeah no shit, we're playing pretend
>>24937375>Homer isn't genderedIt IS gendered
>>24938764therefore everyone’s right except you.
>>24938768your pic only supports the anon you’re replying to
>>24938776What a bizarre denial of reality
>>24938778literally shows it’s a masculine -ος name with no feminine form
>>24938780So? It's a masculine gendered name (proving he was wrong), and we have created a hypothetical feminine form for a hypothetical feminine authoress.
>Homer isn't genderedWrong! The original ancient Greek version of the name is gendered.>Homer is genderedWrong! We're speaking English, and the English version of the name isn't gendered.Everybody is wrong, wrong, wrong!
>>24938792English does incorporate Latinized gendered names in some instances though. See Frigg > Frigga
>>24938795That's actually quite a coincidence, didn't Homer himself die of friggma?
>>24938800He dies of ligma
>>24938792ostensibly >>24938792yet greek doesn’t feminise oμηρος by adding -a. so in the context of this conversation…
>>24938805Aphrodite/Aphroditus
>>24938817i’m sure you already know that comes from a different derivational pattern entirely. nothing to do with forming a feminine of oμηρος. different declension
>>24938845Danae/Danaus
Ayn Rand
>>24938849again, those aren’t gendered forms of the same name.
>>24938859They literally are though
>>24938868danae is a first-declension feminine in -η; danaus is a second-declension masculine in -ος. that’s not how greek gender pairs work.
>>24938873Cleopatra/Cleopatrus
>>24938856Quit joking around, we're having a serious discussion right now.
>>24938876all these pairs youre giving me share the same flaw. they’re not gender-pair within a declension. still unrelated to oμηρος.
>>24938881You should really read The Fountainhead
>>24938888There is no flaw, you are actively denying reality. Like what, "Aprhroditus" isn't the masculine form of Aphrodite? Come on.
>>24938893none of them represent a morphological feminine/masculine pairing within a single declensional paradigm. aphroditus is a cultic derivative of aphrodite formed through -ιτος. danae/danaus are thematically related mythological names from different declensions. apparently cleopatra/(us) is a secondary -ος masculinisation of a compound feminine.
>>24938911It doesn't matter how they were ultimately derived, because they're the appropriate masculine/feminine forms of those names with the appropriate masculine/feminine suffixes.
>>24938915masculine/feminine pair only exists when both forms arise through a shared inflectional paradigm. your examples are all derivational formations, not inflectional opposites.
>>24938926Is Aphroditus is the masculine counterpart of Aphrodite? If yes, then it is the appropriate masculinization of that name. Etymological origin is ultimately speculative anyway, so I'm not going to bother debating it. Not like the Greeks knew where half their words came from.
all mogged by woolf and dickenson
>>24938933> Is Aphroditus is the masculine counterpart of Aphroditeshort answer: no.It’s an epithet
>>24938951>It’s an epithetSo is Aphrodite
>>24938962no it isn’t
>>24938965It is though, at least originally
>>24938976it isn’t though, i there’s no earlier deity called by another name modifying it.
>>24938983Not true, there are multiple candidates for the potential original goddess, but ultimately it's unknowable as Aphrodite is completely absent in Linear B tablets. Same with Hekate btw.
>>24938993unknown etymology doesn’t makeepithet. & since Aeneas is a central figure in the Excidium Troiae, his mother Venus necessarily appears in the narrative, just as she does in almost every Latin tradition about Troy
