Saturday, September 1, 2018

TFBT: Quotes for August

"For the gods are stronger than men." iliad 21.264

"The twin sons of Thracian Boreas came darting from the sky." Argonautica of AR

"People for whom written records play a small part or no part at all and with whom the scientific study of history is undeveloped...delight in factual information for its own sake." M L West

"Echecratides of Larisa dedicated the small Apollo, said by the Delphians to have been the very first offering to be set up." Pausanias 10.17.8

"Achilles is constrained by the social superiority of Agamemnon in offering no physical resistance to the taking of the young woman Briseis, his war prize, by the inferior hero."

Peleus in the Argonautica “For it is not I who will flinch, since the bitterest pain will be but death.”

Argonautica; “stood at the entrance, marvelling at the king's courts...“silently they crossed the threshold.”  “And quickly beneath the lintel in the porch he (Eros)strung his bow and took from the quiver an arrow unshot before, messenger of pain. And with swift feet unmarked he passed the threshold an” “645-673) She spake, and rising from her bed opened the door of her chamber, bare-footed, clad in one robe; and verily she desired to go to her sister, and crossed the threshold. And for long she stayed there at the entrance of her chamber,”

MLWest see a correlation between The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and the parade of women Odysseus sees in Hades.  (Page 33)

One of them, (the ten lepers) when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him—and he was a Samaritan.  Jesus asked, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?” Then he said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well.”  Luke 17:15-19. In my life it is more like one in six.  

“ the narrative continues until the catastrophe that ended the Heroic Age” mlw

undocumented feature; a glitch in the new software. Ktina Hill

ML West translates “maia” as Nana

Demophron, isn’t that the male version of Demeter’s name ?

CARMEN NAUPACTIUM T ESTIMONIUM. #7  flee from the Hall swift thru the dark night

“Romans and other ancient nations pretended that they were the children of the gods, to draw a veil over their actual ancestors who were doubtless robbers” Giacomo Casanova

“Beware of the man of one book.” Casanova











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