Thursday, March 23, 2017

TFBT: Quotes and Links IV




The Muse of this week's quiz at Hour 25 is the Daemon of Marathon.  Good luck you quiz mongers!  https://t.co/VY6cboJVXR


“The man without a pupose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil.” Ayn Rand'64

“The man who wrestles with necessity I esteem a fool.”   http://t.co/yIeo6gCGRo

“The longer I live, the more convinced I am, that it is all about who says what to whom when.”

“The language of Homer a composite of Ionian and Aeolic elements.”  Frank J. Nisetich http://t.co/0RvW9UZjZ9


The king’s baby daughter in Sleeping Beauty is the victim of the uninvited fairy’s anger same as Eris as deity omitted... http://t.co/SSMihlt9


'The ire of the goddesses was kindled against Troy,". Nice phrase https://t.co/pY50zNYDLZ

The inspiration for this week's quiz is the Titaness of the Moon; Selene.  Enjoy!  http://t.co/Gu9kYaoRJ6

The initial speech in a Homeric conversation is a proto-event because  "Initial speeches can only be distinguished retroactively"
“The inextinguishable Homeric laughter of the blesse gods; http://t.co/usQgsjp1

The Iliad’s power depends(on)not demoniz(ing)...Trojans, but,,, portrays them more sympathetically than...the Achaeans.  Tobias A. Myers

The Homeric word "Deinos" in Sophocles' "Antigone" http://t.co/e21uDbvQMi

 “The groom nearly always take the bride’s left hand or wrist with his right.” http://t.co/UbJ0DTz1QR

The Greek Alphabet song: http://t.co/wDGlOcIH
  
"The great epics relishing neither human sacrifice nor killing within the family.” http://t.co/LsvmSj0d

The gloomy rhetoric of the departed heroes affirms the merits of sunny days spent at home in the company of one’s nearest...Stamatia Dova

“The genius behind our Iliad's artistic unity is in large part the Greek epic tradition itself.  Nagy 5.19 http://t.co/95EKuNFW2N

The French paid $9.6 million for Casanova's Memoirs, making it the 7th most valuable book in the world. http://t.co/dFNyVSATpZ

"The fiction that behind the telling of each story exits one divinely superintended tale... that never alters”   http://t.co/bVba0G4I"

 “The events involving this person are not neglected by the gods. Nor is it by chance that the events involving me have happened.” Socrates
 
“The entire world is contained in our courtyard garden ...inevitably all things will come to me. “ Diana Abu-Jaber, "The Language of Baklava"

The English adjective stentorian,  deriving from Stentor’s role in Iliad 5.785

The ease w/which a rogue invites a gentleman to share in a knavery is astonishing; he must think his confidence confers an honor. Casanova

“The dual constructions of IX 196-198 express a pointed exclusion of Odysseus from those who are "most dear" to Achilles”   Gregory Nagy

The Dioskouroi are depicted as having an epiphanic effect on others, but themselves seem unaware of their status, https://t.co/dMyiA05kze

  The Danaides wished to avoid entering into force marriages that Themis forbids.  http://t.co/UbJ0DTz1QR

The Cyclic conception of a world liberally populated by half-brothers is as different as it is inferior.    http://t.co/GIerBRpD

The Curse of Unexpected Consequences: Helen's Daughter and the Beginning of the Trojan War http://t.co/WMAh7obtBY

“The cost of achieving mythical heroism in a postmythic world is an irrevocable deal with a Hecatean power.” James J.Clauss  

The Consumption of Metis, Birth of Athena, and Creation of the Aegis (Hes. frag. 343) https://t.co/ZZ0Zy028Wr

The concept of repetition in ritual, as expressed by the adverb 'once again' H24H;Gregory Nagy
The child he has longed for warms a father’s heart. Pindar Olympian 10  http://t.co/0RvW9UZjZ9

“The centaurs, the debauched drunken beast. Howling and biting, they pounce upon the women and boys.” http://t.co/7I09ax28

“The best plan for a young woman is never to stare at any man, to pretend not to hear certain questions&certainly not to answer them.”Casanova

“The beds of the immortls are never barren - every act has issue.”  http://t.co/usQgsjp1

The avenging fiend (a fury) goes not forth from friend to friend. http://t.co/yIeo6gCGRo

The audience of Homeric poetry is presumed to be near and dear (Gregory Nagy) Same assumption Casanova makes of the reader of his Memoirs.

The arrows of Artemis hunt down (the rapist)Tityos so that men might learn to yearn for things that are within their grasp. Pindar Pythian 3

“The archaic smile becomes the gesture of sublime inevitability.”   http://t.co/usQgsjp1

The Ancient Greek Hero Course at Harvard's Extension School, with Kevin McGrath http://t.co/s4suPeV8nc  

“The absent always fare ill.” The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt,

"The ainos, then, is...aside from those exclusive listeners ‘who can understand,’ it is apt to be misunderstood, garbled.” Nagy_ 

The 100-hander "Briareos had a cult at Karystos and Aigaion at Khalkis. “Nagy_Best-of-the-Achaeans.

Thanks to JSTOR some thoughts by Ferrari on Athens and the Fall of  Troy http://t.co/ClFXVFp4

Thanks to Dr. Alexandra Traschsel  for mentioning this great Troy Page at    http://t.co/JNtv1L3X

“Testosterone did not make men more aggressive...but prepared them for the challenge of dominance.” http://t.co/29oNJ39how

Terpander on Sparta; “There flowers the battle-spear of young men, there the muse is eloquent.   http://t.co/6fLR861rEv

 Taped  interview with Glynnis Fawkes at Hour 25  http://t.co/mpsneQbVNH


Take this brand new quiz: "Weavers and Lovers in Greek Myth" http://t.co/Tfs28yBMsR

Take this brand new quiz: "Twin Gods in Greek Myth" http://t.co/ZulfFmxmzI

Take this brand new quiz: "Troy and Therapon" http://t.co/64k2tJ7tFw

Take this brand new quiz: "Tiresias and Friends" http://t.co/3G0MvEzclw

Take this brand new quiz: "Thebes and Thetis" http://t.co/YmOuA5uFyM

Take this brand new quiz: "The Return of the Odyssey" http://t.co/PZX1PXniqd

Take this brand new quiz: "The Iliadic  Embassy Scene " http://t.co/YPi59qnUW3

Take this brand new quiz: "The Iliad and Euripides' Heracles"

Take this brand new quiz: "The Gods of Nashville and Naxos " http://t.co/VkcCQ7ycHn

Take this brand new quiz: "The Foster Father of Achilles" http://t.co/sXDLj3KatV

Take this brand new quiz: "The Edges of the Greek World"

Take this brand new quiz: "The Cyclops in his own Cave" http://t.co/DWXuXvs0HT

Take this brand new quiz: "The Books of the Iliad" http://t.co/aawZxpqSfG

Take this brand new quiz: "Telemachy, Fosterling of Zeus" http://t.co/nXSdSzOxTX

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