What do we think about this premise? Among the Olympians there is a deep-set
prejudice against the Pontides and other water-gods.
What a great discussion on the Homeric Questions with
Leonard Muellner https://t.co/7He7Q7QAv8
Were their tigers in Ancient Thessaly? https://t.co/B5qbmjPWPQ
Well-known...older pattern...found in Homer...Apollo’s
Panhellenic displacement of/syncretism w/epichoric rivals. https://t.co/3yJtR736k9
We need to be
careful about saying "God can't."
Christ in our Home
We just celebrated my 61st birthday. As to turning 60, I can quote Frank Sinatra;
"It poured sweet and clear, it was a very good year.
We had a great dialogue with Prof. Gregory Nagy. http://t.co/IOnJQ3ZbRC
“We eat to live? Yes, surely. But why then did the immortal gods also come
to the table and twice a day?” Leon Abric per Adam Gopnik
We are many, but we shall speak briefly. The Eumenides
585
Voltaire; “What branch of literature you have devoted
yourself?""
Visiting Scholar Timothy Power at CHS on Feb 25. https://t.co/qnfh0Jhm4K
Visiting Scholar Maria Schoina at Center for Hellenic
Studies, which awards such grants each term.
http://t.co/JrUiQWuoJ8
Various video presenation byvisiting scholars with the
Kosmos Society http://t.co/ENgRyQyTtT
Video CHS Open House: Tragic Visualizing in the Iliad
with Laura Slatkin http://t.co/5j2EMIbzOZ
Video Dialogue: The Odyssey and Breaking Bad, with
Joel Christensen. http://t.co/NtmRaRoKAi
Video conference with Douglas Frame and Hour 25. http://t.co/HjsxWhZK8T
Video chat open to all with visiting scholar Douglas
Frame. http://t.co/zQmcI7toPd
Very convincing piece on Helen in Egypt by Guy
Smoot http://t.co/GgPhiwfR
Upon meeting his son for the first time, “I thought
then, & I think now, that this day was one of the happiest I have ever
spent.” Casanova
Unveiling the erotic mysteries at the heart of Homer’s
Odyssey https://t.co/srWnCfy8rt
Unflattering review of Ovid Chapters 12&13 https://t.co/AHRPyYAEG2
Under Discussion: The theōriā and the Ship of
Theseus http://t.co/pEhkXrG5Ik
Under Discussion: Composition-in-Performance and
Micronarrative http://t.co/QLAJbNwtLj
Tyro, rejoice in all good will; the embraces of the
gods are not fruitless, and you will have fine twins...I am... Poseidon, OD
11.249
Typhon is known to both Homer & Hesiod as a traditional
character, as the use of the word "pasi", people say, indicates. Joan
V.O’Brien
Two very important people in my life
considered-Herodotus as an invaluable aid to the comprehension of life.
Jing-reed http://t.co/Qad4CyD8
"Twas the face that launched a thousand ships, And
burnt the topless towers of Ilium
Tuscans and Neanderthals? http://t.co/OCqohPIL
Trends in the language classicists speak;
Jupiter/Zeus/Jove. http://t.co/jfkL7zLT
Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. https://t.co/tJ5JygexBE
Tom Brokaw, dumbfounded by how badly the press
predicted the results of the Presidental election; “I guess we didn’t have any
experts west of the Hudson River.”
Tom Brokaw on Trump’s victory; “People were so
desperate for change they were willing to pull the pin on the
hand-grenade."
To try is one of the first proofs the human spirit can
give of its divine essence, to suceedis the last. Dumas in Caucasia
To maintain their private knowledge, they drew
boundaries between themselves and those without their experiences. Gregory
Wayne Walker 2008
To conquer a city is to loosen her veils http://t.co/usQgsjp1
“To build a name to shine beyond all hope, all envy,
all desire, whose short-lived splendor shall outlast the world." AG Butler
Tim Curry Discusses The Rocky Horror Picture Show,
During the Week of Its Release (1975) http://t.co/dm5OdJJIYy
Thrice-born;1st, born as Zagreus; 2ndly born
prematurely as a 7 months' child at the death of Semele & 3rdly born
maturely from Zeus' thigh
Thoughts on Irony in Medea. http://t.co/4NmR60aKsj
Thou, a man, canst not pollute what is of God. http://t.co/yIeo6gCGRo
Those who can, do.
Those who can't, criticize
those gods who
are below with Kronos would have come to hear of the fight between us Iliad 15.225
This, say our Sages, was the reward for having
previously hidden his face, lest he should gaze at the Eternal. http://t.co/lgaeFuSaXH
This was the entrance to Hades before the boundaries
of the bronze age world expanded https://t.co/6ko6kpJxrR
"This project explores the cult of the Great Gods
of Samothrace. Its initiates did travel more safely at sea? https://t.co/9HsUCMZ5Ml"
They were the finest children that were ever born in
this world, and the best looking, famous Orion only excepted; Odyssey 11.309
They went on till bravely, boldly,
battle-victoriously, boastingly, blade-redded, they reached the fair plain of
Emain.
They mourned for Patroklos, that was their pretext,
but they were all mourning...for what they really cared for in their sorrow
Iliad 19:302
they loved him as men love a free-following fountain
or a tree that provides them fruit and a welcome patch of shade. Dumas in
Caucasia
They fought the fiercest tribes of centaurs utterly
overthrew them. I (Nestor) came from distant Pylos, and went about among them,
(iliad 1.267)
They did no wrong to me. Never drove off my cattle nor
laid waste the harvest, for ¦between us (lay) shadowy mounts and sounding sea
IL 1:154
Thetis is "an alternative structure of cosmic
relations one that was neither overthrown by the Olympian order...nor upheld by
it". Slatkin
THESEUS Dost thou suppose the gods attend to these thy
threats? http://t.co/yIeo6gCGRo
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