Talk:Clio (Hendrik Goltzius)

DYK
I'd like to nominate for DYK. Here are some potential hooks: Personally I like #2 or (punchier, but perhaps a bit too coy) #3, but that's my partisanship showing. Thoughts?  E Eng  01:37, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 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?
 * 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).  E Eng  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.
 * 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 .  E  Eng  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)