Language was invented for 1 reason boys, to woo women
and in that endeavor, laziness won’t do. It also won’t do in your essays. N.H.
Kleinbaum
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is
not putting it in a fruit salad. ~ Brian
Gerald O'Driscoll
King of Corinth to Medea by feeling pity I've been hurt
before” Medea 348 Should
have listened to himself!
Kevin: "Yes, why does there have to be evil?”
Supreme Being: “I think it has something to do with free will." http://t.co/QUROQGsx
Just a reminder for all us classicists; "Homer
was Blind!"
Jorgensen noted that daimon is never used for divinty
where Homer himself is speaking. http://t.co/WVIXKZvZ
Jesus said, "Give to everyone who begs from
you." Luke 6:30
Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour
in his own country. John 4:44
It would be most satisfactory...if physics and psyche
could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality. Wolfgang Pauli,
"it is un-traditional...whatever runs counter
to...traditional plot of the narrative is conventionally designated as beyond
destiny.Nagy_Best of the Achaeans
“it is of their own free will, that mortals commit
deeds of recklessness and so their pains are beyond what is fated.” https://t.co/oPnuYaklQM
“It is I; be not afraid.” John 6:20
It is believed that every generation gets the Homer it
deserves. http://t.co/pgBeeO64mM
There's no way to stand firm on both feet & escape
trouble Od 5.413-4"
Indo-European; a hypothetical language, with a
hypothetical grammar, which was never
written and no one has ever heard.
In the “Frogs” according to his adversary Aeschylus,
(Euripides) is “an enemy of the gods”. https://t.co/QWchchupJw
In no society are women and in-laws obsessed with the
virginity of the groom. http://t.co/29oNJ39how
In earlier times Sicyon was called Mecone (Prometheus'
trick), and in still earlier times Aegiali (Apollo purified?) http://t.co/Q3P4yfpj
In Ancient Athens, those who could write, wrote
tragedies, those that couldn’t were named Aristophanes.
Immortalization is the antithesis of heroic death. http://t.co/UbJ0DTz1QR
"Iliad and Odyssey; texts that are powerful, horrifying
and beautiful, repulsive and attractive.” https://t.co/63zxjkPF68"
Iliad 9;"the exclusion of Odysseus in the dual
greeting would serve to remind the audience of the enmity between him and
Achilles" Nagy
Iliad 9:637-638 "all because of just one girl,
just one.”
Iliad 5.778-9
Then the goddesses twain went their way with steps like those of
timorous doves
Iliad 4:185 But fair-haired Menelaos reassured him and
said, ‘Take heart, and do not alarm the people.’
Iliad 3:60
Still, taunt me not with the gifts that golden Aphrodite has given me;
they are precious;
Iliad 3:55 The Trojans are a weak-kneed people, or
before this you would have had a shirt of stones for the wrongs you have done
them
Iliad 3:160. I lay no blame upon you, it is the gods,
not you who are responsible [aitioi].
Iliad 23:77-78 “shall we sit apart and take sweet
counsel”
Iliad 23:157 there is a time to mourn and a time to
cease from mourning.
Iliad 22:63-64 little children dashed to earth amid
the rage of battle,
Iliad 22:295-297 but there was no man; then he saw the
truth and said to himself, Alas! the gods have lured me on to my destruction.
Iliad 21.400 So saying he smote upon her tasselled
aegis; the awful aegis against which not even the lightning of Zeus can
prevail.
Iliad 20:429 “Draw nigh, that thou may the sooner
enter the toils of destruction."
Iliad 20:428 “Draw
near, that you may meet your doom the sooner.”
Iliad 20:198 “Even a fool may be wise after the
event.”
Iliad 20.122 the chiefs of the immortals are on his
side, while the others who have... been defending the Trojans are but vain
helpers
Iliad 2:203 we cannot all be kings; it is not well
that there should be many masters; one man must be supreme
Iliad 19:67 If
we have been angry, necessity has schooled our anger. I put it from me: I dare
not nurse it for ever.
Iliad 19.87 those..,responsible are Zeus and Fate and
the Fury who roams in the mist...who...put savage derangement [ate] into my
thinking
Iliad 17:18 his
heart mightily stirred, fair-haired Menelaus spake unto him: "O father
Zeus, no good thing is it to boast overweeningly.
Iliad 17:100 “to tear aside the mantle that veils the
brow of Troy.” The Greek word for a
woman’s veil is the same for a city’s ramparts.
Iliad 15:224 “ Had he not done so those gods [225]
who are below with Kronos would have come to hear of the fight between us
Iliad 1:360 She (Thetis) came and sat beside him
(Achilles) as hewept and stroked him with her hand and called him by name and
spoke to him.
Iliad 1:343 Agamemnon is mad with rage and knows not
how to look before and after
Iliad 1:320 "and (Agamemnon) called his trusty
messengers and attendants Talthybios
and Eurybates." Was Eurybates
Odysseus' herald?
Iliad 1:283 Achilles, who in the day of battle is a
tower of strength to the Achaeans."
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