Haristotle Potter

This
is a good thing. Harry Potter has been translated into Ancient Greek. Anything that gets more people studying the basics is fine by me :-)

LONDON (Reuters) - Harry Potter “Warrior Cup” and his enemy Voldemort “Scaly Death” in a translation of the schoolboy wizard’s adventures into Ancient Greek due for publication this summer.

Retired classics teacher Andrew Wilson told Reuters he had to stretch his linguistic ingenuity to turn J.K. Rowling’s magic boarding school fantasy into a language not used for 1,500 years.

Wilson, 64, was commissioned in January 2002 by publisher Bloomsbury to translate “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” into the Greek spoken in ancient Athens.

All I can say - and I loved translating Greek - is avoid the storytape :)



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