TFBT:Random Notes and Quotes September III

 The term Japhetic was also applied by William Jones, Rasmus Rask and others to what is now known as the Indo-European language group.

• Sir William Jones in 1786 as a group of related languages consisting of Sanskrit, Latin, Greek, Gothic, ... From the Bible narrative of Noah and his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japhet, came the name. 
• "japetisk " "Rasmus C. Rask, 1815 
• Leibniz in 1710 proposed the concept of the so-called Japhetic language group, consisting of languages now known as Indo-European, 
  

"God created Eve first, took out her rib and gave her a companion so she wouldn't be lonely."  Norman Lear describing his television series "All That Glitters"

“To stop striving forward is to slide back.”  (Me)

" The idea is thematic to the Iliad that no matter how valuable a given object, nor how much  prestige (timē) attaches to it, a man’s life (ψυχῆς 22.161) is of a different order of  importance altogether. to himself" (Models of Reception in the Divine Audience of the Iliad, Tobias Anthony Myers  

ληϊστοὶ μὲν γάρ τε βόες καὶ ἴφια μῆλα,
κτητοὶ δὲ τρίποδές τε καὶ ἵππων ξανθὰ κάρηνα, 

ἀνδρὸς δὲ ψυχὴ πάλιν ἐλθεῖν οὔτε λεϊστὴ            

For while cattle and fat sheep can be seized,
and tripods and tawny-headed horses can be acquired,
a man’s life cannot be seized so that it comes back again 

                                                Iliad 9.401-409

“The gods’ immortality and easy living make them capable of watching the life-and-death struggles of mortals as one might watch an athletic competition." (Myers referencing pace Bremer 1985 and de Jong 1987: 130-1.)

“The Iliad is a ritual that simultaneously honors Troy in the distant past and wipes it out in the performative moment.”  Myers

“Book 4 (of the Iliad) contains the first representation of the gods as a body observing events at Troy – the first use of the “divine audience” motif. Books 1-3, while they do not yet use the divine audience motif as found dramatically in Book 4, do sometimes present an individual deity in the role of an interested, engaged observer of events at Troy. Strikingly, this observer figure is always Hera. “  Myers

"a burning city looms beyond the poem’s horizon". Myers

"The poet’s choice of Aias signals a shift from the period of Achaean victory to a period of defensive fighting in which Aias will emerge as the crucial figure: the Achaeans’ bulwark against destruction, who is never wounded himself," Myers