“Homer shows us a lot about who we are even today.”
Jean d’Ormesson
“Homer is never boring, amazingly modern…do not let
him be forgotten.” Jean d’Ormesson
“Knowledge kills my inner child.” Maya M.
“All right... all
right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and
irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and
public order... what have the Romans done for us? From
"Monty Python's Life of Brian"
To-do list; "The
list that lasts forever". Jason Anderson
“Tereus discovers
that his stomach has become the tomb of his own son,” Gregory Nagy
“A voice cries out: ‘In the wilderness prepare the way
of the Lord.’” Isaiah 40.3
“ The company then flew to Salzburg where filming
resumed on (Sound of Music) ...Wise faced opposition from city leaders who
opposed him staging scenes with swastika banners. They relented after he
threatened instead to include actual newsreel footage of crowds
cheering Hitler during a visit to the town.” (Wikipedia; The Sound of
Music)
“ she anointed herself with olive oil, ambrosial, very
soft, and scented specially for herself—if it were so much as shaken in the
bronze-floored house of Zeus, the scent pervaded the universe of heaven and
earth. (Iliad 14: 171-4)
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