Not so long ago I was walking between these ruins lying outside an old stadium on the Greek island of Rhodes (Rhodos, Rodos). There were inscriptions on several of them, and once again I found my lack of knowledge of the Greek language a shame. As a tourist on an "tourist-infected" island like this, we get by due to among other things the double signposting and the courtesy of the Greek people. But I can't read a single thing. I felt like an illiterate. I know that these were probably old inscriptions, but the principle is the same.
What, for instance, might this mean?
Not so long ago I was walking between these ruins lying outside an old stadium on the Greek island of Rhodes (Rhodos, Rodos). There were inscriptions on several of them, and once again I found my lack of knowledge of the Greek language a shame. As a tourist on an "tourist-infected" island like this, we get by due to among other things the double signposting and the courtesy of the Greek people. But I can't read a single thing. I felt like an illiterate. I know that these were probably old inscriptions, but the principle is the same.
What, for instance, might this mean?
17 comments:
Ohhh Rune
I feel the same
I will try to send
a Greek blogger
to help You!!!!
(( hug ))
it is just a reffer to a person
from rhodos island
it is not ancient greek inscription ..
it is more post Roman early cristian (byzantine era) as name θεοδωρος = gods blessed, it is not an ancient greek name
Amazing! Make a statement on your blog and in a little while help arrives. How great is that? Anna-lys is so kind.
By the way, to me in Canada, anything from the early Christian era seems ancient. I guess in Greece it's almost modern, eh?
Jøss, DET hadde vært noe å hatt i hagen det Rune... Skulle tatt dem med hjem :-) Overvekt??? dyrt??? skylt på nyrestein eller gallestein da vet du...
Flott dag til deg.
Thank you Anna-Lys! I see from the next comment that you have already kept your promise - now, that is what I call cyber-friends!
You are welcome dear!
and thanks Demetrios :-D
oh dear, it was all greek to you...
nice of you to want to understand the inscription - dont forget, greeks probably dont understand norwegian!
Godt å ha bloggvenner som kan hjelpe.
Ha en flott dag!
...ΡΟΔΙΩΝ ΚΑΙ... = ... RHODIANS AND ...
...ΚΑΙ ΘΕΟΔΩΡΟΣ ... = ... AND THEODOROS ... (THEODORE)
Now I can even understand something! Great - thank you!
Well, they don't teach greek as much as they used (for instance like at the turn of the century) so I would say it is a sign of the times...now Mandarin seems to be the language to learn!
lol @ Neva
Dette ble helt gresk for meg, men så har vi greske bloggvenner og da blir det jo lett
:)
Wonderful park setting, and how nice you were able to get a translation so quickly.
I like it -- seems like it is an old rock park! I wonder if that stone that is inscribed on comes from some place else and the rocks here are like a graveyard for stones not needed elsewhere? Very interesting -- thanks for sharing it with us since I know I will never make it to Greece.
I see I missed your post below also so will visit it and leave a comment there too.
Et snedig språk. Rart at de forstår hverandre ;-)
Great conversation you have going here among the commenting friends.
I'd love to play among those columns of stone!
I tried to learn Greek once in order to understand the New Testament. Didn't get very far in either. But it's a great language. We really need to at least know the letters to do archaeology in Israel.
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