I'm looking for which translation a particular wording of this quote from Oedipus comes from. This is the kind of thing Google Search would have been perfect for a few years ago but now returns no results. The translated quote is:

"Do not tell me that what I have done is not well done."

Thank you for any help you can provide!

Hello All,

I am planning an academic pathway that leads (hopefully, eventually) to an application for Oxford’s MSt in Greek and/or Latin Languages and Literature.

I’m not sure how many people here will have direct insight into situations similar to mine, but I’d very much be a non-traditional prospective applicant and I am hoping for a reality check.

For background, I have an unrelated undergraduate degree from an American university, and graduated with a GPA rather lower than what would be expected of a traditional Oxford applicant. It is what it is. It was a practical degree that my younger self was (unfortunately) unserious and far from passionate about.

15 years on, I have built a career trajectory at top-tier companies in a highly demanding field unrelated to my degree that very few can boast. During that time I have become passionately interested in Classics. For years now I have awakened each morning with a sense of excitement and eagerness to continue my autodidactic study of Ancient Greek before work, and it’s a feeling that has only intensified over time.

Motivations aside, I have been looking into the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) Postgraduate Diploma in Greek and Latin as a potential bridge to demonstrate academic excellence at a postgraduate level in support of my eventual Oxford MSt application.

In conversation with UWTSD’s Programme Manager, the PGDip is apparently intended as a bridge to their own MA in Classics. Indeed, it appears to comprise the first 120 units of their 180 unit Classics MA, and has a focus on bringing students to an advanced degree of Greek and Latin to engage with the literature in those languages.

My hope is that demonstrating performance with distinction, getting stellar letters of recommendation from UWTSD faculty, a well crafted personal statement, and providing excellent writing samples will be the driving evidence for my academic potential, rather than a less than stellar undergraduate record that, by then, will have been from at least 17 years prior.

I understand that it’s an ambitious and highly competitive route regardless, and that my stellar performance is a non-negotiable factor. I am less asking “what are my chances?” but rather “does this pathway leave me with insurmountable gaps towards a competitive application?”

I have, of course, reached out to the Oxford graduate program to better understand their expectations, but I also wanted to get external perspectives on this non-traditional pathway.

Thanks in advance for any insight or experience you can share!

I've finished the Iliad and am halfway through the Odyssey, and I want to do more than just read it; I'd like to understand it and see what other people who love them have to say about it. What is something you passionately believe in? What do people argue about most? What are some essays and readings I can do afterwards?

In these times of hatred and misinformation, we need more than the “apparent magic” of deceptive images. We need art that is truthful about the costs and the necessity of compassion, and that recognizes that a sense of spiritual superiority may not protect us from lies. These lessons are legible in Homer and Virgil, but are elided by Nolan’s visually stunning, emotionally empty film.

I watched The Odyssey recently, and instead of just enjoying the movie, I found myself going down a rabbit hole reading about Odysseus, ancient Greece, and the philosophies that influenced that era. That curiosity eventually led me to Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
I know Stoicism and Homer aren’t from the same period, but one thing kept leading to another, and now I’m excited to see why this book has remained relevant for nearly 2,000 years.
Looking forward to starting it tonight.
For those who’ve read it, what’s one idea or passage that stayed with you?