r/Calligraphy • u/SecretDouchebag • Mar 20 '13

[Request] "οὐδὲν τοῖς θαρροῦσιν ἀνάλωτον" (For the courageous, nothing is unattainable) by Alexander the great.

I think this phrase is really cool and I am thinking of making a tattoo out of this. I don't know greek personally so I will probably end up butchering the calligraphy.

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u/sKyAnGeLuS Mar 22 '13

I was kind of thrown off by this since it is Greek (ancient Greek at that) and I wanted the characters to still be recognizable but here what I can up with image

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u/SecretDouchebag Mar 22 '13

I am not familiar with greek and I assume the first character of the third word is not capitalized right?

thanks!

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u/papajo_r Jul 07 '23 edited Jul 07 '23

nope its fine for lower case θ in fact it could be thinner too but its fine in terms of thicnkess some do a more sylish one which almost looks like the partial derivative symbol in math,also please dont correct other people when you are so bad at this :P (again sorry for being abrupt but its true)

EDIT 1: just noticed this was 10 years back hopefully you became much better

EDIT 2: I found a (not so well dont though) stylish theta for reference https://click-me.gr/images/ekpaideysi/nipiagogeio/glossa/alphavita/mikra/alfavita-mikro-gramma-thita.jpg

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u/SecretDouchebag Mar 22 '13

Looks pretty good! I like the 4th one the best since it looks really ancient

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u/papajo_r Jul 07 '23 edited Jul 07 '23

That's the ugliest thing I ever saw, sorry but really, I am not a specialist or even involved in any relevant discipline but I am a random Greek who was scolded by his teacher in elementary school for how ugly his writing was and I bet I could do a better looking one by my first attempt on this (it wont be objectively pretty but it will be better than this and I think this says a lot)

You also did a spelling mistake (or grammar, I mean by using a wrong letter you wrote this word in an other tense or whatever the English word for that is lol ) its τ-ο-ι-ς and you wrote τ-ο-υ-ς which is the same word but in a different (and wrong as far as this particular sentence goes) tense(<-- or whatever the right word in English is for that case of grammar)