Sing, Erinna!

[MangaDex]

 

[nejinoniwa]

>tutored by Sappho
>on the island of Lesbos
Well, it was inevitable.

 

[lemika96]

She pulled a cupid on her lmao <333

 

[ElBichoRaro]

Lykos and Erinna sitting in a tree...

 

[Fitz]

Really enjoying this. Thanks for the regular updates.

 

[owlette]

the island of lesbia-...i mean lesbos

 

[sherish]

hmm wheres chapter 76 and 77

 

[ElBichoRaro]

May I ask what happened with chs. 76-77?

 

[BCS]

>Ancient Greece. In a time when women were not even permitted to step foot outdoors on their own...

"""Historical""" tag strikes again.

 

[SUmKGjCAjYcZ]

Woops! Apologies from us, 76 and 77 are uploaded.

 

[Newspage]

@BCS that's probably just the publisher fucking things up. Futaba Sato has a BA in Classics from Toukyou Metropolitan University. She specialized in lyric and tragic poetry, and in the study of women in the ancient world and there are multiple chapters where they go outside.

 

[Liar]

I don't think this manga gets enough love.

 

[Nightlilygirl-]

This is pretty interesting and well-made, I love how the titles are actually in greek!

 

[Asriel]

As someone who's learned Ancient Greek for many years, I've got to cry out at this.

That's what is written as "Synetairis" is composed of the prefix "syn", meaning together/with, and the word "hetairos", which means fellow/comrade, it does not mean friend. The word for friend is "philos", so the word "synetairis" would translate as "camaraderie", not friendship.

But it gets even worse since the female version of hetairos, "hetaira" was used for female prostitutes, who differed from the normal prostitues (pornai) in the way they worked; they were usually well-versed and able to play instruments to entertain the men they laid down with on their klinai(similar to our sofas, but usually made from solid material like rock) during a synposion;
they were entertainers, while pornai just existed to fornicate.

So synetairis would probably translate accurately as "escort fellowship".

Next is Astragaloi. They are called astragaloi, because they are star-shaped, and as you might know, the only star-shaped bones in our bodies are located in the spine.
In fact, there is a vertebra in our body called Astragalus, it's the first vertebra of our spine, directly linking our spine to our skull.

So,they are playing with vertebrae, not with knuckle bones.

Also, what's with that aristos = recious? The word aristos means "the best", it's part of the word "aristocracy" that we all know, which was part of the three forms of government proclaimed by Herodotus in his dialogue on this subject between Otanes,Megabyzos and Dareios.
It's also one of the three forms of true government listed by Aristotle in his work "Politics".

 

[MichaelMBush]

@Asriel I haven't read the manga yet, but knuckle bones is the right translation. Astragalus is a foot bone; the first vertebra is called atlas.