Talk:Clio (Hendrik Goltzius)

DYK

I'd like to nominate for DYK. Here are some potential hooks:

1. Did you know ... that from Goltzius' Clio it is "a short step to some Renaissance representations of History as a winged woman writing, her white garb signifying that she bears witness to truth as well as to renown"?
2. Did you know ... that Hendrik Goltzius' engraving Clio may have been an inspiration for Daniel Chester French's 1884 statue John Harvard?
3. Did you know ... that John Harvard may have been inspired by Clio?

Personally I like #2 or (punchier, but perhaps a bit too coy) #3, but that's my partisanship showing. Thoughts? EEng 01:37, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

I like #3, but then I tend to prefer DYK nominations with hidden surprise meanings even though that's a bad idea for actual article text. #1 is too much undigested text from somewhere else, and #2 is too weaselly (I don't mind the "may have" in #3 because it's masked by the wordplay, but in #2 it just comes off as half-hearted). —David Eppstein (talk) 02:24, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Clio_(Hendrik_Goltzius). EEng 02:56, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Inscription

My Latin is really really rusty, but here's a rough guess at the transliteration and translation of the inscription. Improvements would be very welcome and are probably necessary before this is ready to include within the article:

Gesta ducum, Regumque canit Parnassia Cleo,

Historicis mandatque modis, et fortia facta

Heroum nec tempus edax, nec conterat [a]etas

Inuidiosa cauet, longumque extentit in Æuum

 

Parnassian Clio sings the deeds of leaders and kings,

and consigns them to historical ways, so that

neither greedy time nor age will grind down the brave acts of heroes.

Jealous, she keeps watch, and draws them out into long eternity.

[I'd be surprised if there isn't still at least one major mistake per line in the translation.] Incidentally, Google books finds the starting phrase "Gesta ducum Regumque" in a couple of later works — a quote, I wonder? —David Eppstein (talk) 06:39, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

My Latin is really really rusty I had a professor friend who mentioned one day he was taking over Advanced Sumerian (or something, I can't remember) for a colleague who had fallen ill. He said it would be a lot of work because "my Sumerian's a little rusty". I find the idea of someone having rusty Sumerian hysterically funny. See also [1]. EEng 17:40, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Linguist's Badass Boast: "I'm rusty in more languages than most people have ever heard of." --Florian Blaschke (talk) 08:11, 24 November 2016 (UTC)