“Draw near, that you may meet your doom the sooner.” Iliad 20.429
“Don’t ever dare to blame a man for cursed
soul-destroying poverty” Works and Days, line 717
"Does not wisdom call, and does not understanding
raise her voice?" Proverbs 8:1
“Divine figures w/local traits that resist (Pan-Hellenization
are) non-Olympian, no matter how important (their) local traditions" Nagy
“Dissolute queens and bloodthirsty kings have always
been the most lavish patrons of the saints.” “Adventures in Czarist Russia” Alexandre
Dumas
“Did the honors of the table with the perfect ease of
a person...accustomed to fulfil that difficult duty.” https://t.co/vJxuWkX7JY
“Demodokos is interrupted...by the weeping of
Odysseus...just when various Achaean heroes are performing their various grisly
feats" Nagy_BA
“Death comes soon enough and brings an end to
everything. You should not pray for it.” Medea
154-55 https://t.co/xzbpNfPyPK
“Concerning a wife; one should least of all do wrong
to her, for she is like a suppliant and one led from the hearth.” http://t.co/UbJ0DTz1QR
“Calypso dresses him (Odysseus) in an ensemble surely
too fine for rafting. He discards her
donation mid-Ocean.” https://t.co/RiQXVIQrhp
“By spear is kneaded the bread I eat, by spear my
Ismaric wine is won, which I drink, leaning upon my spear.” http://t.co/6fLR861rEv
“But this feeling of mine rest on inference rather
than positive statement and remains a feeling.” Richmond Lattimore http://t.co/6fLR861rEv
"But so that the blessed gods...as before, may
have their way of life and their accustomed places apart from men" Hesiod
fr. 204.102-103
“But let him remain in error; it is better thus than
to prove him in the wrong and to make a bitter enemy of him.” http://t.co/cwp0uukP0u
“Bucentoro on which the Doge was going as usual, to
wed the Adriatic, the widow of so many husbands and yet as young as on the 1st
day" Casanova
“brutes that know not what defeat means until cold
steel teaches their hearts no longer to beat," Edgar Rice Burroughs. “The
Gods of Mars.”
“Beyond question the ass fed better than his masters,
but then servants generally do.” Adventures in Czarist Russia, Alexandre Dumas
"“Beneath the brilliant light of Mars' two
glorious moons” Edgar Rice Burroughs. “The Gods of Mars.”"
“Athena was...to confer immortality upon Tydeus...as
he lay dying...What stopped the goddess...was her sheer disgust at what she
saw...Nagy
“At the sight of (Achilles’) armor, all the Myrmidons
recoil: no one can bear to look at the divine work of art” https://t.co/GCNyud5Yp0
“As the ibis pecks along the bank for a bit of food,
so the scribe searches among this thoughts for some truth to tell.” Normandi
Ellis
“As Loraux notes, suicide is a woman’s act rather than
the heroic act of a male” http://t.co/UbJ0DTz1QR
“As if men could control the disputes caused by the
gods amongst themselves and escape...destiny!” http://t.co/eluKomNP1A
“As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods,” Shakespeare
“And went nameless to the dank house of chill Hades. Yes,
nameless! Death still took them” Hesiod W and D153
“And a multitude of Achaean heroes danced in their
armor around the pyre as you were burning" Od 24.68
“(The Muses) gave me a scepter, a branch of
flourishing laurel” Hesiod Theogony 30
“Anchises, most glorious of earth-born men!" HH to Aphrodite 109 http://t.co/XluL58Wwsv
“Already the foundations of the steadfast cosmos are
shaking under Typhon’s hands. The
indissoluble bonds of harmony are being dissolved. “
“All of human knowledge...can be understood as a
remembering of what was once known and is bit by bit reclaimed.” Ann Shearer in
Athene
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