“Woman like the goddesses, at that point, after mounting your bed, I would be content to enter the house of Hades”. (HH to Aphrodite 153-154). Wish I’d known this line when I was a bachelor. Really similar to Moonstruck.
“The basic issue in these episodes involving mortals behaving like gods is that gods and mortals are not, as Apollo said to Diomedes, of the same class. The traditional role of Apollo in making just this distinction and reinforcing it” Muellner in Menis page 23
“Victory or Vahalla!”
“The basic issue in these episodes involving mortals behaving like gods is that gods and mortals are not, as Apollo said to Diomedes, of the same class. The traditional role of Apollo in making just this distinction and reinforcing it” Muellner in Menis page 23
“Victory or Vahalla!”
When Aphrodite saw Cypris at Cnidus, "Alas!" said she; "where did Praxiteles see me naked?" Plato, Epigram XVII
“The hardest part is the beginning.” - carpet layer
"The herald of the prowess of heroes and the interpreter of the immortals, a second sun on the life of Greece, Homer, the light of the Muses, the ageless mouth of all the world, lies hid, O stranger, under the sea-washed sand." Antipater of Sidon
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