“The bow (of Heracles) has never left Philoctetes hands; it is untouchable as well as sacred.” http://t.co/UbJ0DTz1QR
“The blatant use of the patronymic “son of Cronus” is
used , each time to denounce an abuse of power” http://t.co/eluKomNP1A
"“the apology of Agamemnon; In effect, the goddess Ate “ made me do it”
“The anger of the children of Zeus is not in vain.”(Pindar,
Pythian 9) Look out Niobides!
“The anger of Achilles was preceded by ...Apollo, the
anger of Meleager was preceded by.., Artemis” Best of the Achaeans Chapter 6.14
“The Achaeans, faced with Hector’s challenge, hesitate
('cuz) not one of them is really the best of the Achaeans” https://t.co/KiKM34AyBY
“The Achaeans slept night long with the soft bondage
of slumber upon them.”Iliad 10:2
“The absent are in the hands of God” Dumas, Alexandre.
“The Corsican Brothers.”
“That is what was fated for the sea-goddess to bear
for a son, a prince stronger than his father.”
-Pindar Isthmian 8
“That happy age when one's inexperience is one's sole
misfortune.”“The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt,
“Such a project I could only entertain in a moment of
excitement and rage.” Casanova
“Strictly speaking, then, gods are not
anthropomorphic, humans are theomorphic.” William F. Hansen
“Spurn allies, lord and you gain peril and lose love.”Euripides
“Rhesus”
“Soon she rose up like gray mist out of the waves”
Iliad 1:359
“So these twain circled thrice with swift feet about
the city of Priam; and all the gods gazed upon them” http://t.co/OzchBB8j
"A slice of the sacrificial victim's meat (is) called
a moira.” Nagy_Best-of-the-Achaeans.”Moira=portion or share or fate"
“Since he hath found a blessed end, my children, cease
from the lament.” Oedipus at Colonus
“Shew yourself to be in good spirits, for sadness does
not become you.”Casanova, Giacomo. “Memoirs of Casanova" v14
“She will soon put lightning to that cloud of her
tears.”Medea 106 https://t.co/xzbpNfPyPK
“she was very pretty and celebrated for her intrigues;
that was enough and she could turn me round her little finger." https://t.co/vJxuWkX7JY
“She was afraid that our absence would be noticed by
her two Argus-eyed cousins, so she kissed me and left the room.”Casanova
"“She refuted all my arguments by the most
complete silence.” Casanova, Giacomo. “Memoirs of Casanova"
“She (Hera) is also the only one to invoke the Titans
or even mentions (them by name.)”The Transformation of Hera by Joan V.O’Brien
"Semele became immortalized as a direct result of
dying from the thunderbolt of Zeus." Nagy_Best-of-the-Achaeans.”"
“See now, how men consider us gods responsible for
what is after all nothing but their own folly.”Od 1:34
“Sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.”
https://t.co/vJxuWkX7JY
“Rome is the one city in which a man can begin from
the lowest rung, and reach the very top of the social ladder.”Casanova,
Giacomo.
“Pyrrhos, (Achilles' son) becoming the ultimate victim
of the sacrifice-butchered at the table of (Apollo)" Nagy_Best-of-the-Achaeans
“Primordial Eros (whose) purpose is to help all future
divinities emerge from the shadows into the light” The Wisdom of the Myths” Luc
Ferry
“Praising him everywhere, which incited the malicious
to vent their satire on the abbe; and thus I was avenged” https://t.co/5LLz3Bc2UM
"Poseidon personally tells Aeneas that his death
at this point in the narrative would have been hyper moran 'beyond destiny'.” Nagy_BA
“Pity is a debasing feeling which cannot find a home
in a heart full of love.” https://t.co/AjHPcKamxu
“Phoenix, old friend and father, I have no need of
such honor. I have honor from Zeus himself” Iliad 9:606
“People want to know everything, and they invent when
they cannot guess the truth.” https://t.co/L6292cW6FW
“People join organizations. People leave managers.” Pastor Bill Hybels http://t.co/RNQVCXO3C9
“Peleus, a 2nd-rate hero w/the dubious distinction of
having been defeated in a wrestling by a woman Atalanta.” Richard Caldwell p169
“Patroklus came out, equal to Ares, and that was the
beginning of his doom." Iliad XI
604
“Passionate people, are easier to protect oneself
against, than someone clever who keeps silent.”Medea 319-321 https://t.co/xzbpNfPyPK
"“One-on-one (Homeric) conversation establishes parity
between the speakers that does not exist for other genres” http://t.co/GPIx0AzoEN"
“One should live so as to be able to proclaim what one
has done.” Dumas, Alexandre. “The Corsican Brothers.”
“One ought to place a man where he can do most good.”Euripides
“Rhesus”
“One may sleep with a man out of mere friendship, it
is not so with a woman." The
Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt,
“One could never have too much of a good thing,"
Casanova, Giacomo. “Memoirs of Casanova"
“Once that secret opening is ajar we may glimpse a
wholly different perspective on our mundane realities”Ann Shearer in Athene
“Once a hero ceases to be epichoric, he may become a
god.”Rohde I 184-189:
“On his intellect being enlightened by Bacchus he made
his apologies”. Casanova
"olbios, “blessed”; which signifies their
fulfillment as mortals” Stamatia Dova, Greek
Heroes in and out of Hades."
“Okeanos is...the prime mythical boundaries...delimit
light from darkness, life from death, wakefulness from sleep..." Nagy_BA
“Of the endless evils plaguing Greece. None is worse
than the race of athletes.” Euripides!
No wonder I don't like Euripides
“Of course, (in Ancient Greek) “nedus” means womb in
the case of Rhea and stomach in that of Cronus.” http://t.co/RqNPJEypDJ
“Odysseus’ landing on Ithaca and his encounter with
Athena marks a transition in the narrative.” http://t.co/GPIx0AzoEN
“Odysseus in particular is distinguished for the zest
and skill with which he lies to virtually everyone.” http://t.co/GPIx0AzoEN"
“Odysseus himself, as he tells his tale, never calls
on the Muses. “ Homeric Moment by Eva Brann
“Odysseus becomes the weaver of a fairyland.” page 31
Homeric Moments, Eva Brann
"“Odysseus and Elpenor become the archeytpical initiated
and uninitiated.” Stamatia Dova, Greek
Heroes in and out of Hades."
“Oceanus dropped waveless and windless to his noonday
bed and slept.” Philip Vellacott in Agamemnon
“Obligation to a thousand traditions and dedication to
none.” Colin Low
“O goddess, daughter of Zeus, tell me, as you have
told those who came before me.”(Od 1.10)
Homer admitting that others sang the Odyssey?
“Nowhere was there the slightest imperfection. She was
like Venus rising from the foam of the sea.-Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de
Seingalt,
“Now that I have your arm, what will people
think?" "that we love each other and that we make a very fine
couple." https://t.co/AjHPcKamxu
“Novelty is the master of the soul.” https://t.co/M3r3nqCHUn
"Noblesse oblige, but Antinoos crudely
refuses...he is the very first suitor to be shot dead by the arrows of an angry
Odysseus.” Nagy
“No, those who are really responsible are Zeus and
Fate [Moira] and the Fury [Erinys] who roams in the mist.” Iliad 1.87
"“No one who sins unwillingly is evil” Sophocles fragment
“No one disappears. They all come back like zombies,”
Eli on The Good Wife
“No man with any sense should ever educate his children
to know anything beyond what's normal.”Medea 292-294
“Never did I witness such a malign lust for blood as
these demons of the outer air evinced” Edgar Rice Burroughs. “The Gods of Mars.”
"“Never again can I behold such men as Perithous
and Dryas shepherd of his people...” They're all Lapiths! Nestor attend Perithous
wedding?
“Nestor’s name means “returner”from nostos” Homeric
Moment by Eva Brann
“Myths are the tales of truth masked in the drama of
the human condition.”Richard G. Geldard http://t.co/DaA3Oe8OtB
“My prerogative is ancient.”Erinyes in Eumenides
“My kine with trailing feet and shambling gait” Butcher
and Lang’s Odyssey http://t.co/rxoSX8iogz
“My heart begins to speak, I must go;" and she
instantly rose.” http://t.co/cwp0uukP0u
“Mortals need...some other way to get our
children.There should be no female sex. W/that, men would be rid of all their
troubles.” Medea572-5
“Moreover, reference to pollution (is) absent from
epic” (compared to supplication in tragedy.) http://t.co/UbJ0DTz1QR
“-mistakes which are not completely ignoble or
shameful are juxtaposed with praise, they undermine envy.” Plutarch
“Miserable mortals, who come out like leaves in summer
and eat the fruit of the field, and presently fall lifeless to the ground”. Homer
“Men must die”Jasper Griffin http://t.co/zBOSDNVrpi
"“Men die much as leaves fall from trees.” “Nagy_Best-of-the-Achaeans
“Men can make up and ...receive the sacrament
together...dogs will never eat from the same platter.” Dumas, Alexandre. “The
Corsican Brothers.”
“Melodious words which skilled craftsmen join
together.” (Pythian 3) Pindar bragging
about his poetry? I always like Pindar.
“May not be described in any earthly tongue, and
indeed might challenge the language of the gods.” Edgar Rice Burroughs. “The
Gods of Mars.”
“May I some day see them dead in the ooze of flaming
pitch!” Libation Bearers
“May I perish without fame, without name” (Hippolytus,
Euripides 1028)
“Mankind would be much less miserable without either
lawyers or doctors.”The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt.”
“Maidens’ banter and smiles and deceits and sweet
delight and lovemaking and gentleness.” (Theogony 205-6)
“Madame Manzoni...who, believing in an immutable
destiny, took pleasure in turning the leaves of the great book of fate,"
Casanova
“Lower than the sons of Heaven: lower than the Titans,
sons of Uranus (Heaven), who were plunged into Tartarus.” http://t.co/r7kwpkcxNi
“Love with too much passion brings w/it no fine
reputation, brings nothing virtuous to men.”Medea 627- 629 https://t.co/xzbpNfPyPK
“Love only laughs when two are present and thus…ancient
mythology tells no story of the loves of the Graces, who were always together.”Casanova
“Love never fails.” 1 Corinthians 13:8
“Love is a madcap who must be fed on laughter and
mirth, otherwise he dies of inanition.” Casanova
“Love him so well, and you may lose the love I bear
you.” Iliad 9:614
“Like to fresh Parthian crimson were her lips.”“EPIC
TALE TÃIN BÓ CÚALNGE”
“Like all humans, Hesiod remains in the final
analysis, the thrall to Hope and ignorant of Zeus’ plans” Jenny Strauss-Clay
“Leto, according to ancient interpreters, was...the
shadow, therefore, of Hera, if Hera be the splendor of heaven.” http://t.co/r7kwpkcxNi
“Let us proceed quietly, and not encroach upon future
events.” Casanova, Giacomo. “Memoirs of
Casanova
“Let the fountain from which I do not drink run dry.”
Aesop
“Let him remain in error; it is better thus than to
prove him in the wrong and to make a bitter enemy of him.”Casanova, Giacomo
“Let everyone take a turn prodding the fire.” https://t.co/mp9k88SiQy
“Legality and safety requirements seemed to take a
secondary place and it was up to me’ to challenge an unsafe job” (Gray, 2002,
p. 157)
“Lead the way; I will follow even beyond the interior
of Thrace.” Heroicus 3.2
“Laughter sat on her lips but her brow was furrowed
with care” Iliad 15. 101
“Keep traveling you swine; point your paunch against
the sun’s setting.” Hipponax of Ephesos.”
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