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 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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