If I ever find enough German folk tales that fit the theme, I might publish a folk tale collection entitled:
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If I ever find enough German folk tales that fit the theme, I might publish a folk tale collection entitled:
"Our Appropriated Roman Heritage"
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If I ever find enough German folk tales that fit the theme, I might publish a folk tale collection entitled:
"Our Appropriated Roman Heritage"
@juergen_hubert What does that theme mean?
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@juergen_hubert What does that theme mean?
"Stuff that Romans (allegedly) did in the territory of Germany!"
Such as Julius Caesar or Pontius Pilate founding cities.
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"Stuff that Romans (allegedly) did in the territory of Germany!"
Such as Julius Caesar or Pontius Pilate founding cities.
@juergen_hubert This might be a me-problem, but there's two words with a lot of baggage in that theme: To me, the "our" bit sounds a lot like late 19th century nationalist/jingoist history teachers; and "appropriated" has a quite negative connotation. I don't know whether that is what you were going for
Apart from that, a lot of the informants for the collections you are translating from will have been alive at the abdication of the last Roman emperor
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@juergen_hubert This might be a me-problem, but there's two words with a lot of baggage in that theme: To me, the "our" bit sounds a lot like late 19th century nationalist/jingoist history teachers; and "appropriated" has a quite negative connotation. I don't know whether that is what you were going for
Apart from that, a lot of the informants for the collections you are translating from will have been alive at the abdication of the last Roman emperor
Oh, that was absolutely intentional.
There was a lot of Roman Empire fetishism in the 19th century, and I am not afraid to skewer that.
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Oh, that was absolutely intentional.
There was a lot of Roman Empire fetishism in the 19th century, and I am not afraid to skewer that.
@juergen_hubert What I'm trying to say is that with that narrow angle you probably won't do the complex histories and contexts of those tales justice. How do we know, for example, that a tale about Pilate founding a city is part of that "fetishism" and not of a way older Christian tradition?
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@juergen_hubert What I'm trying to say is that with that narrow angle you probably won't do the complex histories and contexts of those tales justice. How do we know, for example, that a tale about Pilate founding a city is part of that "fetishism" and not of a way older Christian tradition?
Oh, I'd probably research the historical context and whatnot, like I usually do for my books.
