Advice from Demeter and Achilles, “If you don’t get
your way go sulk in your tent/temple until they come begging”
Acts 10:24 “Cornelius... had called together his
kinsmen and near friends, who were like-minded with himself.”
Achilles’ old armor had to be shrunk by the god to fit
Hector”page 79, Homeric Moments, Eva Brann,
"Achilles, your name will stay alive, even in
death and your glory will be great for generations to come! Od 24.93-94"
Achilles, an intelligent aesthete, and the only
character in the Iliad who speaks in simile. http://t.co/vqZtXrkaXG
Achilles to Apollo, Iliad 22:14, "Thou hast
foiled me, thou god that workest afar, most cruel of all gods."
Achilles decides, "I have lost a safe return home
but I will have unfailing glory." Iliad IX 413.
Achilles marries (Medea) in the Elysian Fields. (He) is ...the future husband of
"Cytaide"; the strange bacchante.” http://t.co/JwPOT0MW
According to Herodotus (2.53.1-3), Homer and Hesiod
are the repository of knowledge that provides the basics of education for all
Hellenes
If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him
also. Iliad I. 218"
“ We are
awesome and hard for mortals to appease...we stand apart from the gods”The
Eumenides; 385 “We undertake to ruin any house, where
domestic violence kills someone”The Eumenides; 355
“Zeus wants to alleviate the Earth by depopulating the
many heroes who weigh upon it” (Cypria fr. 1 Allen)
“Zeus is nothing to this son of Poseidon (Polyphemus)”Homeric
Moment by Eva Brann
“Zeus himself in all his works hath Mercy for the
partner of his throne shall she not also find a place by thee my father?”Oedipus@Colonus
“Your previous employers were a rapist and drug
baroness, surely I’m an improvement” Miss Fisher from http://t.co/eRhdkBogy0
“Your own afflictions are enough for you, I think. You
unhappy man, you don’t need to mourn the next man’s troubles.” Philoctetes (403)
"“Your eyes speak to my soul"" Casanova,
Giacomo. “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798."
“Young people cannot practise too much the art of walking”
http://t.co/cwp0uukP0u
“You may safely bet a hundred to one that a young man
who has once lost his purse or his passport, will not lose either a 2nd time.”Casanova
“You heard that expression Isos Arei-- equal to Ares. Well,
that signals that this is the beginning of the doom of Patroclus.” 5.CB22.1
“You have freed the whole realm of Argos by lopping
off the heads of two serpents with a fortunate stroke.”Agamemnon 1046
"“Words between Aeneas and Achilles reveals the
presence of an independent Aeneid tradition within the Iliad” Nagy_Best-of-the-Achaeans.”"
“Without intelligence or any sense of justice; the
achievement of a harmonious world order would be inconceivable." Luc Ferry
“Within the conventions of epic composition, an
incident that is untraditional would be …beyond destiny”Nagy
“Why dost thou show me iniquity and cause me to behold
grievance?” I ask my wife during breakfast and still she turns on the
news! (Habakkuk 1:3)
“Who would go to bed with a sea monster if he could
help it?”Od 4:443
“While he sleeps is no longer a captive, and feels no
more the weight of his chains.” https://t.co/5LLz3Bc2UM
“Which decision will appear more manly in the eyes of
my rival and will win my own esteem to the deeper degree?" https://t.co/vJxuWkX7JY
“Whereas 'honor' is conferred by cult, the prestige
that ‘kleos’ brings is the undying glory of Epos.” Nagy_Best-of-the-Achaeans.”"
“Where on earth are they? Where will this thing be
found, this dim trail of an ancient guilt?”Oedipus Tyrannous 108-109
“When Zeus would withhold ...fire... (Athena) ...
sneaked the Titan up the back stairs of Olympus.” Ann Shearer in Athene
“When truth and good news part, the rift shows plain
enough.”Philip Vellacott in Agamemnon
“When I meditate on my past life and its varied
adventures. I feel that no misfortune has befallen me save by my own fault,” Casanova
“When Hephaestus creates a new shield for Achilles, he
also, like a bard (Homer) creates a well wrought narrative." http://t.co/VWyHU9GU
“When a man
abandons his own nature and then acts against his character, all things
are dreadful.” Philoctetes by Sophocles 1187
"“When (Achilles' son) quarreled with the
attendants over his rightful (share), (Apollo] killed him in his own precinct,
(at Delphi)"" Pindar"
“What kind of music do you usually have here?”
“We have both kinds. We got country and western!” (Blues
Brothers)
"“What is recurrent in ritual is timeless in the
epic tradition, just like the unwilting glory of Achilles.” Nagy_Best-of-the-Achaeans.”"
“What I saw was enough to strike me dead on the spot!”
Casanova
“What else...is
of importance, once livelihood is assured and the family launched and leisure
left over? Homeric Moments, Eva Brann,
“What a day has dawned for me, kind God! Yeah, a glad
man am I!”Odyssey 24.513
“Well pleased with my liberality; it was the best way
of making peace with the tribe.” https://t.co/L6292cW6FW
“We were an iron-ring, unbreakable, they shared
immortality with (me) Achilles," -Helen in Egypt by HD http://t.co/0kIr6fj6
“We must listen to the streets before we listen to the
towers” (Willis, 1978, p. 7).
“We mortals must bear our bad times patiently. “ Medea
1018 https://t.co/xzbpNfPyPK
“We do not feel called upon to be angry with our
neighbour for doing what he likes." Pericles
“We are between the wild thoat of certainty and the
mad zitidar of fact-we can escape neither.” Edgar Rice Burroughs. “The Gods of
Mars.”
"“Very often that which bears only upon the
private interest of the people is lightly treated by the rulers.” Casanova, Giacomo."
“Trials were…in the open air so that the murdered
person’s philoi would not ... incur the (murderer's) pollution” http://t.co/UbJ0DTz1QR
“Tragic heroes tend to undergo sudden catastrophic
shifts of fortune- their fate- which leave them transformed but also dead” Eva Brann
“Took pleasure in turning the leaves of the great book
of life” http://t.co/cwp0uukP0u
"“To what chance, reverend sir, am I indebted for
the honour of having you in my custody?” Casanova, Giacomo."
"“To weaken the force of my arguments, she was...
hurling at me a proverb, (like) the Romans throwing the catapult” http://t.co/cwp0uukP0u"
“To try is one of the first proofs the human spirit
can give of its divine essence; to succeed is the last.” Alexander Dumas, Caucasia
“To the gods all things are easy.” Archilochus of
Paros http://t.co/6fLR861rEv
“To say that Homer is important to the culture of the
Greeks is an absurd understatement.
Homer is Greek culture. http://t.co/DaA3Oe8OtB
"“To lose a passport is a misfortune which
befalls only a thoughtless, giddy man,”
Casanova, Giacomo. “
“To feel nothing one would have to be as cold and
impassive as a German.”. “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt,
1725-1798
“To enjoy fully the liberty I thought I had just
conquered, it was not long before I had made the very worst acquaintances”.
Casanova,
“To enable me to write well, I have only to think that
my readers will belong to that polite society:”Casanova
“Thus the watchers are guarding the coast.” Linear B tablet quoted by Michael Wood,
"In search of the Trojan War"
"“Those who perish in the hands, of physicians
are more numerous by far than those who get cured.” Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt.”"
“Those who don't believe...a woman can make a man
happy thru 24 hours of the day never possessed...Henriette." https://t.co/vJxuWkX7JY
“This was finer than anything we had ever seen or even
imagined in our wildest dreams!”Alexander Dumas, Caucasia
"“This night is very long-immeasurably so. It is
not yet time to sleep in the palace."" Odyssey xi 373
"This insidious form of hubris that goes by the name of boastfulness.”“The Wisdom of the Myths”, Luc Ferry
“They went their way by the shore of the sounding sea”Iliad
9:181
“They say the Myrmidons returned home safely under
great-hearted Achilles’ glorious son Neoptolemos” (Odyssey 3.189.)
“They say he has reigned for three generations so that
it is like talking to an immortal.” Odyssey 3.245
“There's a worthless tribe...which dishonors what's at
home and looks far away, hunting down... w/hopes that
cannot be fulfilled.” Pindar
“There was in his tone, as he made this reply, that
love of country which astonishes the rest of the universe” Dumas, Alexandre.
“There is only one order to give; arm and fight the
enemy”Euripides “Rhesus”
“There is no mention in Homer of a sacrifice of
Iphigeneia by her father “ http://t.co/UbJ0DTz1QR
"“there is a similarity between the orgins of
Asclepius and of Dionysus”“The Wisdom of the Myths”, Luc Ferry"
"“There are some prejudices which a woman ought
to respect.” Casanova, Giacomo.
"“Then the dual constructions...express a pointed
exclusion of Odysseus from those who are most dear to Achilles Nagy_BA"
"“The Will of Zeus also entails the permanent
separation of gods and men.” Nagy_Best-of-the-Achaeans.”"
“The three sacred words of the mysteries of Eleusis
meant: Watch, and do no evil.” https://t.co/vJxuWkX7JY
"“The theatre was a necessity for me; I always
went unless it interfered with some still sweeter pleasure." Casanova
“The submissive
gaze of a captive who glories in his chain.” The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de
Seingalt"
“The runaway
slave is a great man by night.”Euripides “Rhesus”
“The result of a respect for the laws, it keeps the
social scheme together;" The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt,
“The requests of Night may not be well ignored.”
Iliad 6:280
“The relationship between Zeus, Thetis and Achilles; presupposes
a version of the succession myth.”J. Strauss-Clay “Hesiod’s Cosmos”
"“The pride of rulers is something to fear; they
often order men, but seldom listen.”
Medea 120 https://t.co/xzbpNfPyPK"
“The price of Zeus's hegemony is Achilles' death.” The
Power of Thetis
“The present moment is the only real thing in this
life,”The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt,
“The people will only be happy when they are crushed
and down-trodden, and bound in chains.”
Casanova, Giacomo
“The organization chart isn’t really how it works.”
Jeffrey Immelt CEO of GE http://t.co/RNQVCXO3C9
“The only time that Jesus weeps for a person is for...
Lazarus, who he proceeds to bring back from the dead (John11.15) Samatia Dova,
"“The one on whom all responsibility rests is apt
to endure the most.” Edgar Rice Burroughs. “The Gods of Mars.”"
"“The Odyssey, in the words of David Monro, “never
repeats or refers to any incident related in the Iliad.” Nagy_Best-of-the-Achaeans.”"
"“The noble son of Iapetus outwitted him and
stole the far-seen gleam of unwearying fire in a hollow fennel stalk.” (Hesiod,
Theogony: 566"
“The need to test and challenge the authority that
rules the world is... irresistible” http://t.co/KeYzecO4X2
“The movement of the sun into and from the Oceanus is
seen as a cosmic model for sleep and awakening, death and rebirth” https://t.co/KiKM34AyBY
“The motif of the fallen hydria (in vase painting) symbolizes
the primal parental fear of the death of the children.” http://t.co/JwPOT0MW
“The milk of the bad mother (Hera), poisoned in the
breast by the arrow dipped in the venom of the Lermaean Hydra.” http://t.co/RqNPJEypDJ
"The man who can give birth to amorous desires is
easily called upon to gratify them” Casanova,
Giacomo. “Memoirs of Casanova
“The loves of Zeus are deities of the earth: "The
rains of heaven (Zeus) do not fall upon the moon.” http://t.co/r7kwpkcxNi
“The life which is unexamined is not worth living.”Plato,
Socrates’ Apology 38a
“The Lacedasmonians did not betray any open signs of
anger against the Athenians at what they heard.”Thucydides.
“The knife which all honest men must carry to defend
their lives in my dear country.” https://t.co/VVTFD3o0q0
“The initiates wear iron rings thereafter.” Walter
Burkert speaking of the Mysteries of Samothrace http://t.co/ku1h4JiQ
“The idea of ‘moira’means not only fate, but portion
and share.” Richard G. Geldard http://t.co/DaA3Oe8OtB
“The hearts of the great can be changed Iliad 15. 203
"“The heart of man is indeed an unfathomable
abyss,” Casanova, Giacomo.
“The happiness I gave her increased mine twofold"
Casanova
“The grove, the grotto and the bathing place of the
goddess””Actaeon by Seamus Heaney http://t.co/XrfV41Yd
“The gods granted Helen no more children after she had
borne Hermione, who was fair as golden Aphrodite herself. “Odyssey 4.11
“The genius behind our Iliad’s artistic unity is in
large part the Greek epic tradition itself.” Nagy_Best-of-the-Achaeans.”
“The fox knows many tricks, the hedgehog only
one. One good one.” Archilochus of Paros
http://t.co/6fLR861rEv
"The descendants of Nyx are excluded from any
parental lineage or cosmogonic
“The depths of cruelty and bestiality to which
omnipotence may drag its possessor” Edgar Rice Burroughs. “The Gods of Mars.”
“The dangers of flower-picking and falling asleep
emerge as important themes in... the death of Opheltes.” http://t.co/JwPOT0MW
"The conflict of Achilles and Agamemnon contrasts
martial with social superiority” “Nagy_Best-of-the-Achaeans.”"
"The cages vomited forth their inmates hot with
the lust to kill.” Edgar Rice Burroughs. “The Gods of Mars.”"
“The bronze sky is beyond his reach forever, but he
has found all the happiness our mortal race can come to. Pindar Pythian 10
"The Bronze Men are 'nameless' in that their deeds cannot be
glorified by poetry;” Nagy_Best-of-the-Achaeans.
