DIALOGUES OF PRAISES
Dialogues of Praises. Your wife’s endowments.
This text was found on the Internet. We have found it on the website The Greeks’ Net (“Eλλήνων Δίκτυο”).
We have neither a depiction of the original, nor any elements about when and by whom it was found, until now.
In the text we can find praising dialogues between two acquaintances, where the one praises the other’s wife.
The text is a document of the fact that the society of the time judges a woman’s behaviour, according to her actions and principles.
The text as it was found on the Internet.
A TA NO WO SU SU O SU GA RE JA SA SA RA ME U NA KA NA E HE
We studied the phonetic values in the actual text. We understood it, we read and rendered it into Modern Greek, but we also approached it philosophically.
Figuration of the phonetic values of the text.
In our own view, the phonetic values are formed as follows:
ATA-NOWO-SUSU-O-SU-GARE-JASASARAME-UNAKA-NA-EHE
The language of the text is Greek, Archaic, typical of any Minoan text. The grammatical structure of the text is mixed.
One can identify Pontic, words, as well as Classical Greek Language.
The utterance of the words and of the verbal types, follows the grammatical rules of the Pontic Dialect, as well as those of the Classical Greek Language.
Rendition of the text:
Ατά νογώ σουσούμ οποία η σού γαρή ασασάραμ νάκα (νέκα) να έ?.
The Τext in Modern Greek:
In my opinion, these are the endowments that your own wife abundantly has.
(Aυτά αντιλαμβάνομαι ως γνωρίσματα τα οποία η δική σου νόμιμη σύζυγος και γυναίκα να έχει με το παραπάνω).
A Philosophical Approach:
Τhis is a dialogue about a personal opinion, where the interlocutor, expressing his own view, judges a woman, mentioning her endowments, as follows:
In my opinion, these are the endowments that your own wife abundantly has.
In this complimentary dialogue, he praises the man for his excellent choice of this wife.
Reading this text, we draw the conclusion that, apart from his wife, there are adulterous relationships in this man’s life, probably a female slave.
His wife is judged from her education, her behaviour, her apparel, but also from her participation in some actions for the public good.
In any case the text is a praise concerning a woman of high standards.