tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90975086871995149652024-03-04T22:43:23.643-09:00Bill's Greek MythologyA blog about Greek mythology, classical studies, and the Kosmos Society sponsored by Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies. Comments welcome in the comments block below Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11216523923707900157noreply@blogger.comBlogger553125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post-76896414260064214672018-11-26T13:57:00.001-09:002018-11-26T13:57:46.297-09:00TFBT: Loeb’s Homeric Hymns<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I am reading the Homeric Hymns in
Ancient Greek with help from Loeb<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hymn to Dionysus<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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suggestion that Dionysus was born in the deep-whirling Alpheus, recalls the
fated-birth of Apollo and Artemis in the Peleus River in the Valle of Tempe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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seven in the Greek; “Father of men and gods”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In English “Father of gods and men” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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birth in hiding from Hera recalls Zeus’ from Cronus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Curetes and Orphic Titans playing
different roles from one another. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the phrase “immortal gods and mortal men”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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when both mortal and men are in the Greek. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As a birthday present, my
oldest son (with whom I am well pleased) and his wife bought me “Kinship Myth
in Ancient Greece” by Lee E. Patterson.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
are the stories that Ancient Greek people and peoples told one another who they
were in the world by remembering who they were related to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most famously in Book 6 during the bragging
that preceded Iliadic duels the hero Glaucus in bragging up his lineage touched
upon a story from the family saga of the hero Diomedes, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">the heart of Diomedes of the
great war cry was glad. He planted his spear in the ground, and spoke to him
with friendly words. [215] “Then,” he said, “you are an old friend of my
father’s house.”...With these words they sprang from their chariots, grasped
one another’s hands, and plighted friendship. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Dorians told how they
were descended from the Heraclidea, grandsons of Heracles returning to their
ancestral home, rather than the Johnny-come-lately barbarians, the neighbors
thought of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Former colonies
reminded their metropolis of their familial relationship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leagues of Nations were formed amongst the
supposed descendants of Ion or Chyrsoar for purposes of trade and defense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a big deal. The Megarians had a
totally different account of King Sciron, foe of Theseus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Aeacus wed one of his daughters, so Sciron couldn’t
have been that bad!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In the first five chapters
of the book, Patterson explains all this is the broadest terms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He explains that such myths are “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">used to create ethnic, national and other cultural
identities.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He says we <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“often embraces (such) fictions, and thus
deny them to be fictions, despite the evidence put forward by those who apply a
more clinical skepticism. To traditions embraced by the majority</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Adding phrases like; “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">myth gives shape to the ideas that bind a society”</i>; “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a community’s origins</i>”, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sense of its identity</i>” and “t<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">o give meaning to those who believe its doctrines</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently all genealogically and
anthropological evidence that a clinical skepticism can bring to bear will not
dislodge these myths of who we are because “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">boundaries
of the group are determined by only that group.” </i>A theory that might able
to modern American politics just as well as Ancient Greeks.</span></div>
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several occasions that “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the vast majority
of Greeks who had no interest in separating truth from falsehood were not shaken
by fictions that contradicted no know science.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thus they listened to the true myths and inventions in the same frame of
mind.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which explains so much about
the ending of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oresteia.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This broader discussion goes
on for the first 108 pages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly his
constant criticism (and dismal) of his own sources, critiques of their implications
and of his own inferences, “suggests” that a reader will lose Patterson’s line
of logic as well as <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the storyline of the
myth under discussion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Starting, at Chapter Six
things really pick up with very specific local myths and specific groups of people,
complete with explanatory genealogy tables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Love those.) Here we hear that people along the banks of the Meander
married their founding fathers off to the river-gods daughters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Making themselves sibling city-states and “autochthonous”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(The latter being a big thing in the Ancient
Greek world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It means they were there
before anyone else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots of other good
stories too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a mythologist I found
all these local myths about minor heroes and their family sagas amazing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The story of the city of “Heraclea
at Latmus and the Aetolian League” (page 132-137) enlightened me greatly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When reading West’s “The Hesiodic Catalogue
of Women) I never understood the myths of Aethlius and Endymion and their role in
the “Aetolian-Elean-Pylian Myth Cycle.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This is an incredible
researched book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both in primary sources
and regarding other scholars on the topic. (Pages 165-219 are the notes,
appendices, bibliography and indexes in fine print.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I loved it. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11216523923707900157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post-43024292879124775382018-11-08T10:56:00.000-09:002018-11-23T19:53:56.628-09:00TFBT: Seven Against Thebes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Recently I had the privilege of reading this <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">heroized” edition of Aeschylus’ </span><em style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Seven Against Thebes” </em><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">produced by my friends at the Kosmos Society and Center for Hellenic Studies. Great job everyone your efforts add so much to my understanding of the nuisances of the play. </span><a href="https://kosmossociety.chs.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/PyrgiTheban.jpg">https://kosmossociety.chs.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/PyrgiTheban.jpg</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Zeus and Earth, and gods that guard our city, [70] and Curse,2 potent agent of my father’s vengeance, do not destroy my city [polis], ripping it up from its foundations, captive of the enemy, a city [polis] that speaks in Greece’s tongue, “.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Thebaid makes the point over and over again, that the citizens and gods who guard the city are foreign; Tyrian as I recall. Similarly footnote 5 “Onca, the name of a Phoenician goddess, is identified with Athena (compare 1.487).”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chorus 89-180 is praying and doing so inappropriately per Homeric protocols</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seems the King could spend more time marshalling his forces and less squabbling with the women</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Eteokles:Since the god hastens the deed so urgently, [690] let the whole race [genos] of Laios, hated by Phoebus, be swept on the wind to Cocytus’ destined flood!” What?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Surprised the Chorus supported Antigone.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">lots of Ship of Stare references considering Thebes is at 705 feet above sea level.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11216523923707900157noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post-9778449072882140022018-11-07T15:07:00.004-09:002018-11-23T19:54:27.937-09:00TFBT: Artemis by Sorita D’Este<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I recently ran across a copy of “Artemis: Virgin Goddess of the Sun & Moon” by Sorita D’Este. It was a modest paperback with a cover that might lead one to think it was a “New Age” study of “The Goddess”. Rather it is a well written study of the Greek goddess Artemis and heavily referenced. That is to say, every known reference. Wow! A great resource!<br />
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Artemis’ bow was created by the Cyclops; I never thought about that. Atsma says “<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Her bow, quiver, and arrows, were made by Hephaestus”</span><br />
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Artemis temple at Brauron was flooded by the River Eurasinos in the 3rd century BB. Gotta be a story there.<br />
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“Knageus was a Spartan hero who was taken prisoner in battle and sold as a slave to the Cretans. He lived in the sanctuary of Artemis there, but ran away with the maiden priestess who took the image of Artemis with her. They subsequently set up a temple of Artemis Knagia in Sparta. This tale corresponds closely to the theme of the story of Iphigenia and Orestes.” She tells several versions of what happen to the siblings and the image of Artemis Tauric, but what came to my mind was Artemis at Nemi, the life’s work of Frazier and “The Golden Bough”; “According to one story the worship of Diana at Nemi was instituted by Orestes, who, after killing Thoas, King of the Tauric Chersonese (the Crimea), fled with his sister to Italy, bringing with him the image of the Tauric Diana hidden in a faggot of sticks. “<br />
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“A temple in Hyllos in Megara was dedicated to Artemis Agrotera and Apollo Agrios by Alkathoos after killing the Cithairion Lion.” Interesting! But even the source she quotes (Pausanias) says that Alkathoos did not kill the Cithairion Lion. Most sources say Heracles.<br />
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“Four golden hinds pulled Artemis’ chariot. The fifth was captured by Heracles as one of his labors; the capture of the Ceritynaen Hind. The wounded the hind and had do some smooth talking to Artemis to save himself from her wrath.” Who knew?<br />
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“Where has not Artemis danced?”<br />
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“A different version of the myth has Artemis killing Koronis as a reprisal for Apollo’s subterfuge in causing the death if Orion”<br />
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“After Artemis Apollo and Leto persuaded Zeus to release the Titan Prometheus from his bondage, Heracles was sent to free and bring Prometheus back.” (<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Valerius Flaccus,</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic;"> Argonautica 4. 60)</span><br />
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D’Este points out that when Artemis fled to her father after being slapped around by Hera on the battlefield before Troy, it was Leto that picked up her bow and quiver full of Arrows. I recalled that in the HH to Apollo Leto, was handling his weapons too.<br />
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Also Artemis asked her father for twenty nymphs who were daughters of the Cretan river-god Amninos”. I can find no reference to Amninos. According to Atsma “<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The stream was also known as the Kairatos (Caeratus). “. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11216523923707900157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post-85347211717311427082018-11-01T12:07:00.000-08:002018-11-01T12:08:22.457-08:00Persephone’s Companions: An Ascending Scale of Honor<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Below is Persephone’s first-person account of what took place with her and her companions moments before her uncle/husband abducted her; </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-size: 23px;">“</span><i><span style="font-size: 23px;">All we were playing in a lovely meadow, Leucippe</span><span style="font-size: 19.16666603088379px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 23px;">and Phaeno and Electra and Ianthe, </span><span class="place" style="font-size: 23px;"><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/entityvote?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0138:hymn=2&auth=tgn,7005730&n=1&type=place" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Melita</a></span><span style="font-size: 23px;"> also and Iache with Rhodea and Callirhoe [420] and Melobosis and Tyche and Ocyrhoe, fair as a flower, Chryseis, Ianeira, Acaste and Admete and </span><span class="place" style="font-size: 23px;"><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/entityvote?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0138:hymn=2&auth=tgn,7002754&n=1&type=place" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Rhodope</a></span><span style="font-size: 23px;"> and Pluto and charming Calypso; Styx too was there and Urania and lovely Galaxaura with Pallas who rouses battles and Artemis delighting in arrows: [425] we were playing and gathering sweet flowers”</span></i><span style="font-size: 23px;">. (HH to Demeter)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Generally her companions are described as “Oceanides” daughters of I</span>the Great River <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Oceanus and his bride Tethys. Which they are for the most part with the odd addition to the list of Athena and then Artemis. (Athena is the daughter of an Oceanide.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In “The Best of the Achaeans” Nagy introduced us to the notion of “an ascending scale of affection”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As the catalogue stands “an ascending scale of affection” would indicate that her best gal-pals were Athena and Artemis. There is no evidence in Greek Mythology to support these proposed friendships.l </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So instead I propose that the catalogue of Persephone’s Companions represents an ascending scale of honor. Hera expounds on a very short scale</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Leucippe, the "White-Horse" per Atsma whose emthymology I generally follow here, nymph of a frothy white spring or mountain stream. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Acaste “unstable" or "irregular". She may have been Nymphe of an erratically flowing spring or stream, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Galaxaura, "milky breeze" , like </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">γαλαξίας; Milky way</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Pallas Athena an Olympian virginal daughter of Zeus and the Oceanide Metis</span></div>
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Artemis an Olympian <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">virginal daughter of Zeus and the Titaness Leto</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And finally, Persephone virginal daughter of Zeus and Demeter, daughter of Cronus</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We may never fully understand the criteria in an ascending scale of honors, like why Hesiod granted such great honors to Hecate in the Theogony. But in this case </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">it appears that the further a nymph can disassociate with water and rise skyward, the more Titans and then Olympians she can claim as parents, plus maintaining her virginity, the higher she rises on Persephone’s ascending scale of honor, culminating with herself with two Olympian parents. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If the catalogue is Persephone’s ascending scale of honor, what a blow to her self esteem to wed and leave Olympus </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If Persephone is the top of her ascending scale of honor, maybe we should put Achilles and Meleager at the top of their ascending scales of affection rather than Patroclus and Cleopatra.</span></div>
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“Cool! We get to go on a train.” Toddler boarding the train for aother concourse at SeaTac<br />
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There is a black guy and dark-skinned Asian lounging at the end of a busy line of chairs. The black guy, named Ethan, waved me back. I asked for it short but still touching the top of my ears. Usual chit-chat and then to business. I relaxed and finally got a chance to look around. The walls were hand painted with massive street art, which was then covered by the usual mirrors and equipment needed for a barbershop. (First actual barbershop For me in twenty-five years. Back home they are all hair salons.) Ethan was entertaining the whole place with good natured jabs at the barber in the first chair. Asian guy was glaring at me which is when I noticed the equipment. Rather than the usual folksy dresser drawer to hold the barber’s equipment, it was a mechanic tool box. That explained the compressed air hoses coming down from the ceiling and the Checkered Flag black and white tiled floor. </div>
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Ethan chatted away as he bounced the shears off my head, sort of like jabbing at my hair instead of the normal long smooth sweep I am use to. Even though he had a customer in his chair the Asian guy was still glaring at me. I glared back for a while then glanced around for something else to look at. They had one of those posters showing the different styles they could do. You know, so you can just point at the one you want. Like sixty photos. All the models were black. I am a little slow, I was in a Black Barbershop! </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11216523923707900157noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post-50522660723816483512018-10-28T18:10:00.000-08:002018-11-23T19:56:04.341-09:00TFBT: Proposal Letter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Re; A Greek Mythology Walking-Tour of Petersburg”. <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Greetings Friends and Neighbors,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">I am Bill Moulton, I will be asking
for your support on my research into Homeric reception. It is called “A Greek
Mythology Walking-Tour of Petersburg”. <br />
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I think you all know me. Maybe you don’t know that I am a student of Dr.
Gregory Nagy of Harvard .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is the Director
of the Center for Hellenic Studies. I attended his first massive on-line
open classroom (MOOC) for “The Ancient Hero in 24 Hours”, twice a TA and now an
active participant in the follow up project, “The Kosmos Society”. <br />
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In the 4th grade we studied Greek Mythology for a couple of weeks. I fell
in love with the subject. My enthusiasm improved my reading, writing,
researching, and composition to such a degree that I skewed the grading curve. <br />
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My project is inspired by a similar project in the seaside town of Brighton,
England. The point of this project is to raise awareness about English
Literature and Classical Studies by the example right here in our home
town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here in banner-hung Petersburg we
have a harbor full of boats named for maritime deities. We also have the
beautiful wings at the Petersburg Public Library to start telling the story of
Icarus, the boy that flew too close to the sun. Probable sites to visit
will include the library, the fishermen’s memorial, Bruno the Bear, Eagle Roost
Park and a finger “C” of the South Harbor.<br />
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I hope you can assist me with advice, recruitment of an audience, and
advertising . </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Sincerely,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Bill
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reception by Dr. Amanda Potter (Visiting Research Fellow with the Open
University.)</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://classicalreception.org/from-a-cow-in-walking-boots-to-queen-victoria-a-greek-mythology-tour-of-brighton/">From
a Cow in Walking Boots to Queen Victoria: A Greek mythology tour of Brighton</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">I wondered if I could do something at home in Petersburg,
Alaska. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I touched bases with a local
tour company just for logistical details.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No real plan to do the tour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
title would be; “Hubris, the Difference between Them and Us: A Greek Mythology
Tour of Petersburg”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">The tour would start at the beautiful <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Petersburg Public Library</b> where
currently on display, is a beauty pair of colorful wings.(1) These will represent the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wings of Icarus</b> of course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDX6EephFORLc6HgNNKnB801lCliXugDJFcc0ET9U_t4s4NRjw7zvGC3q1L1XDswqdxJJfTu_PdmH6iOje5tkD3i5PyhmHxt3SNdWbx40BECPelNOrGCKFROcvls8XAy0ZV8y14xKzjVhf/s1600/Wings+of+icarus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDX6EephFORLc6HgNNKnB801lCliXugDJFcc0ET9U_t4s4NRjw7zvGC3q1L1XDswqdxJJfTu_PdmH6iOje5tkD3i5PyhmHxt3SNdWbx40BECPelNOrGCKFROcvls8XAy0ZV8y14xKzjVhf/s200/Wings+of+icarus.jpg" width="150" /></a></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">The story is that the
inventor Daedalus and his young son Icarus were imprisoned in the Labyrinth by
King Minos.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Minos was the son of the
sky-god Zeus. He was married to the daughter of the Sun-god Helios, Queen
Pasiphae. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Daedalus had done a favor for
Queen Pasiphae that the king did not appreciate!</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Hence the imprisonment of the inventor.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Of course, being an inventor, he easily
invented a way out.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">That is wings of wax
and feathers for him and his boy.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Of
course dad, told the boy that when they flew away from Crete for Asia Minor
they would flew not fly too low over the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Aegean Sea for fear of gathering moisture in their pinions or too high
for fear of being scorched by the sun. But like a teenager with his dad’s car
keys, once young Icarus got his wings he took off for the sky. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">Like
monster-slaying Bellephron upon the winged horse Pegasus, Icarus thought he
could fly to Olympus and join the gods.
In Bellephron’s case Zeus sent a gadfly to sting the horse. Bellephron
was thrown from the saddle. In Icarus’
case the sun-god Helios melted his wings.
The boy fell to his death in the Aegean while his helpless father could
do nothing for his child but watch.
Heracles </span><a href="https://classicalreception.org/from-a-cow-in-walking-boots-to-queen-victoria-a-greek-mythology-tour-of-brighton/"></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">found
Icarus’ body near the island of Samos. The teenager was buried with heroic
honors and the neighboring waters named the Icarian Sea in his honor.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><br />
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Travel and Bruno the Bear</b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">. (2) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(insert picture).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bruno reminds us of the sad story about a
mortal girl named Callisto. She thought she could be a friend of the goddess
Artemis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Friendship with the ancient
gods and goddesses was sort of fragile and fickle thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Artemis was the virginal goddess of the hunt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She and her posse of beauties roamed the
hills looking for game to shot and hot springs for <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>skinny-dip;in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Greek goddesses were really into skinny-dipping.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, Artemis expected all her
“girlfriends” to be virgins like she.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One day when they were all hot and sweaty from the chase they found a
cool pool and quickly stripped off their short dresses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just as quickly Callisto’s baby-bump was
revealed to the quick-tempered Artemis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When the goddess demanded to know who the father was, Callisto said it
was Artemis’ father Zeus King of the Gods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That did not over well!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Callisto
fled into the woods and Artemis flew off to Olympus to tell Zeu’s wife
Hera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then both goddess went hunting for
her. The Greek gods had some strange rule about how they couldn’t interfere
with one another’s divine privileges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The best Zeus could do for his mistress was turn her into a bear, to
better hide her. The angry goddesses found her anyway and Artemis of the silver
bow slew her with an arrow and they returned to Olympus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Zeus arranged for their love child to be <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">rescued and to be secretly raised by a
nymph in a cave.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Little Arcas grew
up to found the kingdom of Arcadia. “<i>The haunted, land of song; and by the
wells where most the gods frequent.” (</i><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/RobertLouisStevenson" title="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/RobertLouisStevenson">Robert
Louis Stevenson</a></span>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Zeus
threw Callisto’s shaggy body into the heavens and it because the constellation called
by the Romans Ursa Major, the Great Bear. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But in Alaska we call her the Big Dipper and
placed her on our state flag. (3) </span></div>
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<b>Eagle Roost Park (4) </b></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">There
was a great battle in the heavens once; the sons of Iapetus and the Titans
against the sons of Cronus and the Olympian gods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They battled across the mountaintops for ten
years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the Titans’ herald
Prometheus saw from which side the winds of war were blowing, he betrayed his
brothers and threw in his lot with the Olympian gods. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">When the war ended and the male Titans had been thrown
into the Pit of Tartarus, there was a big party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone that had helped Zeus and the
Olympians was invited; gods, titans, demi-gods, people and even animals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gifts and privileges from the spoils of war
distributed to all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prometheus, being a
herald, cut up the great oxen that had been cooking for some time. For you see
up to this point in the Golden Age men and gods ate together. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rather than distributing the cuts of meat appropriately,
Prometheus made two piles, one for the gods and one for people. Then the Titan asks Zeus
to decide who group got which pile. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">But there was a trick in all this.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Like the gifts and privileges already passed
out, this decision was forever.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">One pile
looked delicious but beneath a fine layer it was all nasty skin and dog-chewed
bones.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">The other pile was the good meat
hidden beneath a layer of slimy innards.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">But Zeus saw through the trick.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">If he chose the apparent pile of innards the gods would get the good
meat and fledgling humanity would starve.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">If he took the apparently good meat, humanity would survive, but the
gods would have nothing to eat.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Did I
mention the Titan Prometheus originally fought for the other side?</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Olympian Zeus, King of the Gods, was angry at
the deception, but made the decision that save humankind.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">What Prometheus didn’t know was that the gods
of Olympus had gone vegan.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">During the
war they had discovered ambrosia and nectar, food and drink much better suited
to the gods than the meat and wine their Titan foes ate. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">After the party, Zeus had his henchmen chain
Prometheus to the Caucasian Mountain Range in Russia.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Hence forth, after big feasts, people burned
the dog-gnawed bones on the altar in remembrance of Zeus’ kind decision.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">As to the innards, Zeus gave them to his
pet-eagle, who went to Russia and tore at Prometheus innards.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">They grew back every night and the eagle had
fresh food the next day.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">(pause)</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Too much of a bummer ending?</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">To quote the poet Pindar (Pythian 4.519)</span></span></div>
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untouched by sorrow in the Islands of the Blessed along the shore of deep swirling
Oceanus, feasting with the happy fallen heroes for whom the grain-giving earth
bears honey-sweet fruit flourishing thrice a year.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“There indeed men live unlaborious days. Snow
and tempest and thunderstorms never enter there, but for their refreshment Zeus
sends out continually the high-singing zephyrs of the west”</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> . Oh, and Prometheus got a shrine built for him at Rockefeller Center</span></span><br />
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somewhere on main street; or <strong>Bojer Wikan Fishermen's Memorial Park </strong>(5) <strong>and the Viking ship Vahalla</strong> with her double headed raven on the sails. . </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Did you know that ravens were originally white?</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Zeus’ favorite son Apollo didn’t have much
luck with the ladies.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">He once made love
to a mortal maiden named Coronis.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">We
aren’t told how she felt about this tryst with the god, but she definitely did
not want him as a husband.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Neither did
Hestia, Marpessa, Daphne Cassandra, Bolina, Melia, Ocyrrhoe…</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Coronis chose a mortal man as her husband to
be.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">A raven spotted the couple making
love and told Apollo.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">When Apollo whined
about this outrage, Zeus killed the man with a thunderbolt; mortal men sleeping
with immortal goddess was a big no-no.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Apollo’s twin-sister Artemis of the silver bow slew Coronis with an
arrow. Apollo and Coronis’ love-child </span><b style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">was
rescued and secretly raised in a cave</b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Oh, the Raven?</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">When it gave
Apollo the news about Coronis’ adultery Apollo blasted it, turning ravens black
for all time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">(If
not there<b>) </b></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">Where is the Zeus?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s what his father should have been
asking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Zeus’ father, previous King of
the Gods, heard that one of his children would hurl him from his throne as he
had done to his own father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, he
swallowed all his children upon their birth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Zeus was the sixth and last child in the family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he was born, his mother wrapped a rock
in a baby blanket and handed it over to Zeus’s father who swallowed it
whole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile, Zeus’ grandmother, who
was mid-wife, smuggled the child to Crete where he was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">secretly raised by a nymph in a cave.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Are we seeing a pattern here?)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His cradle was hung from the ceiling so he
could not be found on earth or in the sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He lived on honey and goat’s milk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When he started to cry as infants will, his bodyguards the Curetes began
banging their swords against their shields and began circling the divine
child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s where he is today<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the boat is there<b>)</b><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">Don’t
mistake this for the god Zeus, that would be a mistake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>King Salmoneus, built a city near the source
of the river Enipeus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He thought himself
better than King Zeus of Olympus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
transfered Zeus’s sacrifices to his own altars. He drove the streets of his
city, dragging bronze pots behind his chariot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It kind of looked like he was “just married”, but he told everyone it
was the sound of Zeus’s thunder, and he threw burning brands at his subjects,
who pretended they were lightning. Gods don’t take kindly to this sort of thing
and one day Zeus hurled a real thunderbolt, which not only destroyed Salmoneus,
his chariot and all, but burned down the entire city. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">Fifth<strong> M/V
Orion,</strong></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> (C-605) </span>The Giant
Orion was the black sheep of the Olympian family of gods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was related to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were various versions of his birth,
which no one wanted to talk about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
might have been Zeus’ bastard, but… well he was mortal, like us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In short he was not from the right family,
not from the right place <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and definitely
not one of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That said, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>several goddesses threw themselves at him
include the Goddess of the Hunt Artemis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This didn’t go over too well with Artemis’ brother Apollo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apollo strongly believed in the separation of
the divine race and the mortal one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On
the wall of the forecourt of his most temple, the one at Delphi he had
inscribed; <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Apollo
was indignant that Orion was courting his sister, but he blew up one morning
when he saw the giant taking a morning swim in the Aegean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was headed for the island of Chios where
rumor had it he was two-timing Apollo’s sister with another goddess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apollo casually mentioned to his twin sister
Artemis that if she was a really good shot, she’d be able to hit that dark spot
bobbing in the water at some great distance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Artemis rapidly strung her bow and let fly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was exuberant when her arrow hit home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She never realized it was her mortal lover
slipping beneath the waves. (If the boats not there. Look down to see if it is
there.) Of course, the goddess who loved him, saved him, and tossed him (and his favorite hunting dog ) into the starry where the jealous gods could not touch him. You can still seem him on clear night, the constellation Orion. </span><br />
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Siren</strong></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;"> - (Mike File, C-615) The Sirens were getting a little
uppity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were the daughters of a
mere river-god, but thought themselves better than Zeus’ daughters the Muses,
goddesses of the arts and sciences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some
unkind soul suggested the nymphs challenge the goddesses to a singing
contest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Olympian gods would be the
judges of the contest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both choruses
sang.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The gods voted for their nieces
the Muses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Sirens were stripped of
their wings and imprisoned on a deserted island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They ended up using their divine voice to
lure passing fisherman into stepping ashore and never leaving again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(They had the same tastes as Zeus’ father.)</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></div>
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at Java Hus</strong></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;"> This will be our last visit here together in the grotto
of this Nereid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Nereids were
daughters of the Old Man of the Sea; Nereus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He had fifty daugters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Among them
; Light-footed Amphitrite, the nurturer of sea monsters, Fair-cheeked Ceto “The
Kraken”, Oreithyia; goddess of the raging sea, Psamathe of the graceful
form, who sent a wolf against Achilles’ people of Phthia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In distance Aethopia, Queen Cassiopea had a
beautiful daughter named Andromeda.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
girl was so beautiful that she would brag that Andromeda was more beautiful
than the Nereids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Goddesses don’t take
kindly to this sort of thing, Amphitrite’s husband sent a tsunami into the
country and in its wake the goddesses sent sea monsters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These “gifts” from the gods are forever
right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So regularly there would be
floods from the sea carrying in monster to poison the soil and eat up all the livestock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Andromache’s father asked an oracle how to
stop this ongoing catastrophe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reply
was he had to sacrifice Andromeda to the Nereids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">So there she was chained to the rock, when the hero
Perseus happen to fly by.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">It was love at
first sight for both.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">He killed the
sea-monster and sacrificed it to the Nereids.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">He was working for some other
gods at the time, so the Nereids couldn’t interfere with his rescue of the
princess.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Of course, her cowardly father
and fiancée felt free to interfere with the happy couple’s bright future.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Things got really ugly after that.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">But Perseus and Andromeda survived and lived
happily ever after, becoming the ancestors of most of the royal family in Ancient
Greece.</span></span></div>
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and “the beautiful”. She was a </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">Nereid and goddess of calm seas. A roman poet said once, <i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;">"May
Galatea be not unfriendly to your voyage." (Propertius<i>, Elegies </i>1. 8A)
She was the lover of the Cyclops Polyphemus “Polyphemos built a shrine
to Galatea near Mount Etna in gratitude for the rich pasturage for his flocks
and the abundant supply of milk." (Douris, historian C3rd B.C.] </span></span><br />
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maximum was “Know your place.”</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Helen of
Troy failed miserable; she didn’t know she was a goddess.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">She should have noticed that her beauty was
supernatural.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Surely she heard people
say that she was the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">most beautiful woman of all time.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">When she came of marrying age, every prince
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of Zeus, but of course she wasn’t mortal.
She was the Trojan War made manifest.
She was the epic itself. She as
an abstraction and a force of nature. She
was the Queen of Sparta. When she left
her home and husband civilization began to collapse. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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would disappear from Greece and Asia Minor for her sake. Troy and the neighboring cities would burn. Most of the surviving Greek victors would
drown on the way home. In Greece there will
be civil wars and the Dorian invasion.
She would be the cause of the Bronze Age collapse of 1179 BC. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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doom-bearing mortal could do; she was adored by King Priam, beloved by her
sisters-in-law and special friend to Crown Prince Hector. She gave the eulogy at his funeral. On the dreadful night that Troy fell her
husband Menelaus rescued her and lovingly took her home to Sparta. It took them ten-years to get home. When they arrived back in Sparta the Dark
Ages had descended. She was in her
forties. Her subjects line the shores
waiting stones in hand. They were going
revenge themselves and all their departed loved ones. She stepped ashore and
lifted her eyes to meet her greeters. The
stones fell from their hands and they welcomed her home. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1) "Wings of the Phoenix" Using water color and oil pastels kids created 200 feathers. This project was a collaborative effort between the Summer Stream Kids, Andrea Weathers and Josef Quitslund. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">(2) Bruno the Bear was created by local artist Eric Larsen. Bruno uses to have a salmon in his jaws, but it and several others go away.<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">(3) <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;">Benny Benson a 13 year-old Alaskan Native. The blue
field is for the Alaska sky and the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forget-me-not" title="Forget-me-not"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">forget-me-not</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">,
an Alaskan flower. The </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris" title="Polaris"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">North Star</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> is for the future state of Alaska, the most
northerly in the union. The </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dipper" title="Big Dipper"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">Dipper</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> is for the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursa_Major" title="Ursa Major"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">Great Bear</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">—symbolizing
strength.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;">(4) During the summer dozens of eagles will roost in the trees above this spot hoping to snatch fish in the eddies of the Wrangell Narrows below.<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Deuteronomy.</a> Keith made the point that Yahweh is a jealous god (<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Exodus 34:14) and that the Hebrew people were
His portion. (</span>Deu. 32:9) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Greek gods were notorious for not trespassing on
one another's allotted honors and privileges. As the goddess Artemis tell us at
the end of Euripides’ <i>Hippolytus</i>. But were any of the Greek
gods jealous? I read recently that no god denies another and I cannot
think of an example. But, I have been thinking of Salmoneus lately, for
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at first dwelt in Thessaly, but afterwards he came to Elis and there founded a
city. And being arrogant and wishful to put himself on an equality with Zeus,
he was punished for his impiety; for he said that he was himself Zeus,
and <b>he took away the sacrifices of the god and ordered them to be
offered to himself</b>; and by dragging dried hides, with bronze kettles, at
his chariot, he said that he thundered, and by flinging lighted torches at the
sky he said that he lightened. But Zeus struck him with a thunderbolt, and
wiped out the city he had founded with all its inhabitants</i>.” (Apollodorus<i>,
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Now Salmoneus was an idiot and his story was probably
just a cautionary tale. But it reminded me of another mortal jealous of
sacrifices to another god. The mortal Niobe and her childhood friend the
goddess Leto. A seeress foreseeing troubles advices Niobe’s people to sacrifice
to Leto, which they do. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Niobe comes upon
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Madness has
prevailed on you to worship some <b>imagined Gods of Heaven</b>, which you
have only heard of; but the Gods that truly are on earth, and can be seen, are
all neglected! Come, <b>explain to me, why is Latona worshiped and adored,
and frankincense not offered unto me?</b>”</i> (Ovid <i>Metamorphoses</i> 6)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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jealous. The end result is that Niobe’s children are slain and her
subjects turned to stone (<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Homer<i>,
Iliad </i>24.602<i>). </i></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">What I find interesting about Niobe's claim to divine
honors is her genealogy. She is a grand-daughter of Zeus via her infamous
father Tantalus and claims Zeus a father-in-law. She is a queen of Thebes
a royal family that produced Olympian Dionysus, Thyone, Leukothea,
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"heroes" are simply local gods with fading stars unable to compete
with the shining pan-Hellenic Olympian. I don't think I believe that, but
is it possible the Salmoneous and Niobe were local monotheistic gods in
conflict with the polytheistic Olympians who lost the battle for supremacy and
were literally tossed into the pit of Tartarus?<a href="file:///C:/Users/bmoulton/Desktop/Slyph.docx#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Over at the <a href="https://kosmossociety.chs.harvard.edu/">Kosmos Society</a> we’ve been
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">You know me. I am going
to the Iliad for examples. As I started collecting I noticed something; a taboo
on crossing the threshold;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hector of the shining helmet left her, [Iliad 6.370] and right away was at his
own house. He did not find Andromache of the white arms, for she was on the
wall with her child and one of her maids, weeping bitterly. Seeing, then, that
she was not within, [375] <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">he stood
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Other women might be naked in there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was also supplicated many times by the old charioteer Oineus, 9.582 who was<b> </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">standing at the threshold</span> of the
chamber with the high ceiling 583 and beating at the locked double door, hoping
to supplicate him by touching his knees. 584<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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19.91 That goddess Atē, senior daughter of Zeus—she makes everyone veer
off-course [aâsthai], 92 that disastrous one [oulomenē], the one who has
delicate steps. S<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">he never makes contact
with the ground of the threshold, 93 never even going near it</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Zephyros when I<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">ris came running up to
the stone threshold of the house and stood there,</span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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emergency can cross the threshold?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Odyssey, but it looks like every time he enters the palace at Phaeancia, he
paused before crossing the threshold.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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caught any one of them I gripped him and hurled him from the heavenly threshold
till he came fainting down to earth</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">;” (Iliad 15.25)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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celestial threshold like Ate (Homer <i>Iliad</i>19.126) and Hephaestus, is
not a good thing. Generally such daemons can’t re-cross the threshold.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Athena crossing the celestial threshold; it might be universal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Goddesses change form when they cross the threshold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe that is why Iris and Ate were reluctant
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">As for Athena, daughter of Zeus who has the aegis, she let her woven
robe slip off at the threshold of her father, her pattern-woven peplos, the one
that she herself made and worked on with her own hands. And, putting on the
khiton of Zeus the gatherer of clouds, with armor she armed herself to go to
war, which brings tears.” (Iliad</i> 5.733-738)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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[Iliad 8.385]. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Strange place to change
clothes, but it is more than that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
talked about this before; gods taking on new forms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She starts out as Zeus’ favorite daughter and
ends up wearing his clothes and armor while bearing the awesome aegis before
here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Homer’s account turns her into a
stand-in for Zeus, maybe in appearance too, like Patroclus in Achilles armor. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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disguised as an elderly woman unthinking reveals herself when she cross the
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heaven-nurtured Celeus and went through the portico . . . the goddess walked to
the threshold: and her head reached the roof and she filled the doorway with a
heavenly radiance</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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recognize the risk of crossing the threshold for when “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">she took the form and voice of Mentor, and called Telemachus to come
outside</i>.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Od 2.400]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unless I missed it all their conversations
were outside the sacred threshold of Odysseus house until just before the big
battle scene (Od 22.210-241) where she enters the house as Mentor, Odysseus
recognizes her as Athena and then she turns into swallow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Oh I expected to find a
problem with thresholds and the goddess' maiden form in the HH to
Aphrodite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But she kept her form when
she crossed Anchises' threshold. Can I cheat here?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her true form was revealed to him in the
morning twilight at the threshold of sleep.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Threshold
for Supplicants<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There are several
examples of Odysseus as a supplicant sitting on the threshold at Aeolus’ place
and, while in disguise, several times at this own places. I think we can see
another example in Polynices and Tydeus at Adrastus’ door. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But, I think a threshold
in this scenario is just a sacred place for a supplicant. Like Zeus’ knees t
(Ilaid 1.500) when Thetis seized his knees and besought him or like Arete’s
knees;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“still
hidden by the cloak of darkness in which Athena had enveloped him, till he
reached Arete and King Alkinoos; then he laid his hands upon the knees of the
queen, and at that moment the miraculous darkness fell away from him and he
became visible. Everyone was speechless with surprise at seeing a man there,”</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
(Odyssey 7.140-145)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Or the hearth in lieu an
altar (or as the family altar)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Then
he sat down on the hearth among the ashes and they all held their peace</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">,[7.154-155]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Aeacides and Thresholds<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Achilles says;</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My life is worth more to me than … all the treasure that is stored
inside when you enter the stone threshold of the one who shoots, Phoebus
Apollo, at rocky Pytho</i>.” (Iliad 9.401-406)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ironically, his son Neoptolemos goes to Delphi where when “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">he is refused the satisfaction demanded for
Achilles’ death before Troy, (he) plunders the sanctuary and sets fire to the
temple.”</i>(i ) There are several different myths about Neoptolemus’ visit to
Delphi, but all agree that he was killed and “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">buried beneath the threshold of the temple, presumably where he fell</i>.”(ii)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pausanias tells us that Neoptolemus’ shrine
was actually to the left as you passed out of the temple and over the threshold
[10.24.6] And that when the Gauls attempted to, plunder all the treasure that
is stored inside sanctuary Neoptelomus and two other heroes arose from their
graves to insure that the Gauls did not cross the threshold. (1.4.4) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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i Neoptolemos at Delphi, Emilio Suárez de la Torro, Kernos, 10 (1997),
p.153-176<br />
ii Neoptolemus at Delphi: Pindar,” Nem.” 7.30 ff. L Woodbury – Phoenix, 1979 –
JSTOR <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Those
Thresholds Below<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ve discussed celestial and mortal thresholds
how about a transmission to those below; <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grandchild of Atlas,
Arcadian-born, deity that sharest hell and heaven, thou who alone hast the right
to cross either threshold</i>.” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Rape
of Proserpine</i> Claudian 1.89)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think
we talked about this in HeroesX.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hermes
was one of the few gods who passed lightly into the Underworld.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus there is a taboo on the Olympians
fraternizing with the children of Night.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The bronze thresholds of
Tartarus/Hades are unpassable, maybe even to gods. Cerberus standing on the
threshold would make one pause as would the Hecatoncheires.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">here by the counsel of Zeus who drives the clouds the Titan gods are
hidden under misty gloom, in a dank place where are the ends of the huge earth.
And they may not go out; for Poseidon fixed gates of bronze upon it, and a wall
runs all round it on every side. There Gyes and Kottos and great-souled
Obriareos live, trusty warders of Zeus who holds the Aegis</i> (Hesiod,
Theogony) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">There [in Tartarus] stands the awful home of murky Nyx (Night) wrapped
in dark clouds. In front of it the son [Titan Atlas] of Iapetus stands
immovably upholding the wide heaven upon his head and unwearying hands, where
Nyx (Night) and Hemera (Day) draw near and greet one another as they pass the
great threshold of bronze</i> (Theogony)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And there [in Erebus, beyond Oceanus at the ends of the earth,], all in
their order, are the sources and ends of the dark earth (<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">ge</span>) and misty Tartarus and the
unfruitful sea (<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">pontos</span>) and
starry heaven (<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">ouranos</span>),
loathsome and dank, which even the gods abhor. And there are shining gates and
an immoveable threshold of bronze having unending roots and it is grown of
itself. And beyond, away from all the gods, live the Titans, beyond gloomy Chaos</i>."
Theogony<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Guardians at the threshold<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I don’t know what to say
about the various guardians at the thresholds<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The daemoness Campe preceded the Hectanshieres as guardian of the bronze
threshold of Tartarus, but we know nothing of her expect that Cronus killed
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We touched on Cerberus standing on
the threshold of Hades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His adoption in
the Olympian hierarchy along with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>other
of his siblings in the brood of Echidna and the Hectanshieres incorporation might
reflect an effort to include creatures that could be enemies if not made
friends. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We discussed Neoptolemus guarding Delphi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there is there is no Heimdall in Greek
myth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was the god in Norse mythology
who guarded the Aesir from the prophesied attack by the Giants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No watchman alerted Olympus when the Giants
attacked twice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But what about Heracles as guardian of the
celestial threshold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heracles was the
last threat to the Olympians political structure. He was adopted by Hera and
wed to Hebe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Did Heracles “porter duties” (Graves)
include watchman over the celestial threshold?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11216523923707900157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post-2096333963902256092018-10-09T14:45:00.002-08:002018-10-09T14:45:50.688-08:00TFBT: Aeneid or Critique?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/15/is-the-aeneid-a-celebration-of-empire-or-a-critique?mbid=nl_Magazine%20Daily%20List%20100818&CNDID=49814075&utm_source=Silverpop&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Magazine%20Daily%20List%20100818&utm_content=&spMailingID=14395558&spUserID=MTk1NTU4NTgzNjExS0&spJobID=1500648567&spReportId=MTUwMDY0ODU2NwS2">“Is
the Aeneid a Celebration of Empire or a Critique?” by Daniel Mendelsohn</a>. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I recently read this <i>New
Yorker</i> piece on line. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">First, I love </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Mendelsohns' writing style. A while back, I think many of us read and
enjoyed “</span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385350597/?tag=thneyo0f-20" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> was a little surprised how harsh he was on Virgil.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Poets got a sing for their supper and if they
want to eat, they’d better play to the audience.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Being a mythologist, I noted he didn’t
mention that the course of the Aeneid was the Will of Zeus. Aeneas death at
Troy was “beyond destiny”.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">He and his
descendants were promised sovereignty over the surviving Trojans.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">But,
I felt like missed a paragraph towards the end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was talking about a book on the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Holocaust, interviewing survivors
from a small Polish town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He used that
experience to explain Aeneas often confused behavior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like the Jewish survivors Mendelsohn
interviewed, Aeneas was “<i>a survivor, a person so fractured by the horrors of
the past that he can hold himself together only by an unnatural effort of will.” </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>The every next paragraph he is talking
about;</span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> “about a tiny band of outcasts, the survivors
of a terrible persecution. It is about how these survivors—clinging to a divine
assurance that an unknown and faraway land will become their new home—arduously
cross the seas, determined to refashion themselves as a new people, a nation of
victors rather than victims. It is about how, when they finally get there, they
find their new homeland inhabited by locals who have no intention of making way
for them. It is about how this geopolitical tragedy generates new wars.”</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Was Mendelsohn still talking about the Trojans and
Romans?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or is this piece a craftily
coded critique of imperial ideology. <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11216523923707900157noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post-26736433236594319632018-10-06T07:42:00.004-08:002018-10-22T15:57:34.444-08:00TFBT; September Quotes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstyletallbody"; font-size: 23px;">“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.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstyletallbody"; font-size: 23px;"></span><br style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 23px;" />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstyletallbody"; font-size: 23px;">“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</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstyletallbody"; font-size: 23px;"></span><br style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 23px;" />
<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstyletallbody"; font-size: 23px;">“Victory or Vahalla!”</span><br />
<div style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;">When Aphrodite saw Cypris at Cnidus, "Alas!" said she; "where did Praxiteles see me naked?" </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;"> </span><cite style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Plato">Plato</a>, Epigram XVII</cite></div>
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<cite style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“</cite><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The hardest part is the beginning.” - carpet layer </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"</span><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.</i><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">" Antipater of Sidon</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11216523923707900157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post-58155587331454440352018-10-02T16:23:00.001-08:002018-10-02T16:23:44.115-08:00TFBT: Plato's Ion<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://kosmossociety.chs.harvard.edu/?p=40729">discussing Plato’s
dialogue <i>Ion</i>.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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his listeners and bragging that he was the smartest man in the world. If I had been on the jury… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Early on Socrates says, “<i>Homer speak of <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="75"></a>the same themes which all other
poets handle? Is not war his great argument</i>?” Really? Wasn’t the anger of Achilles the major
theme of the Iliad and return the theme of Odyssey. Hmm, where’s that lot I wanted
to cast? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“The
gift which you possess of <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="180"></a>speaking excellently about Homer
is not an art, but, as I was just saying, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="181"></a>an inspiration…”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> That threw me off. I forgot he had a daemon who told him things.
Hmm. “…<i>the Muse first of all <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="188"></a>inspires men herself; and
from these inspired persons a chain of other <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="189"></a>persons is
suspended, who take the inspiration. For all good poets, epic <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="190"></a>as
well as lyric, compose their beautiful poems not by art, but because <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="191"></a>they are inspired and possessed</i>.” He explains that Ion’s spectators are the
last in this chain of inspiration. “<i>the greater number are possessed <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="279"></a>and held by Homer. Of whom, Ion, you are one, and are possessed by
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It occurs to me that the English word rhapsody means “an
effusively enthusiastic or ecstatic expression of feeling.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“<i>Many are the
noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="206"></a>of
men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="207"></a>of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter
that to <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="208"></a>which the Muse impels them, and that only; and
when inspired…</i></span><i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 204); font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">this the lesson which the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="226"></a>God intended to teach when by the mouth of the worst of poets he
sang the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="227"></a>best of song”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> I like this line of logic and apparently does
Ion, who says “<i>I feel that you are;
for your <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="229"></a>words touch my soul” <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That great line about “<i>twenty thousand friendly <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="255"></a>faces</i>”! Nestor’s advice on chariot racing! Didn’t expect that! And now Hecamede’ drink! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And then at the end, here it comes; every Socratic
question is made in ill-faith, a trap for his listener, he is not dueling but
rather toying with an unarmed man, reaching the “logical” conclusion that
rather “<i>you are only a deceiver</i>” and
forcing Ion to <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="533"></a>allow Socrates to attribute his “<i>praises of Homer, inspiration, and not <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="534"></a>art</i>.” A notion Ion did not seem adverse to in the
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11216523923707900157noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post-55502258951506215382018-10-02T08:38:00.000-08:002018-10-02T08:38:18.627-08:00TFBT: Gods in our Midst<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The full title is “Gods in our Midst, Mythological Images of the Masculine: a Woman’s View” by Christine Downing.<br />
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I am enjoying Professor Downing’s book. Her approach is more psychological than mythological. Her sources are often secondary (or tertiary) and obscure. She does a good job of summarizing the Homeric Hymns, without specific reference. She gives the well-read reader much to think about, but not necessarily to agree with.<br />
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Her discussion of Persephone’s Abduction got me wondering. I wonder if Hades chariot and Persephone’s abduction is the prototype of wedding rituals where fathers chasing after in their own chariots; Icarus, Oeonamus, or Idas, trying to save their daughters from death?<br />
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<li>“<i>In all of Greek mythology none of the gods ever denies another’s existence – though they may fiercely dispute a particular claim to authority.</i>” “Fiercely” being like ripping off the other’s wings or skinning them alive.</li>
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<li><i>“The whole exerts pressure on each of the individual gods...so that each of these powers becomes distinct not in itself as an isolated object but by virtue of its relative position in the aggregate of forces</i>.”</li>
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<li>“<i>The clearly ordered Olympian pantheon with Zeus at its head is a creation of Homer….Only in Homer…are the Olympians, the Olympians, dwelling together on the mountain top.” </i>I wonder what Hesiod would have to say about that comment?</li>
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<li>“<i>Even after Homer, Zeus still does not have a supreme position in cult, only in myth”</i></li>
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<li>“<i>I must begin with Hades, because he got me into all this…”</i> I don’t know if this is insightful to most folks, but it is a great opening line.</li>
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<li>“<i>In both myth and rite, (Hades) is little more than Persephone’s shadowy consort.</i>” I would suppose his “shadowiness” is due to the avoidance of his name and himself as a taboo topic, but it is a good observation by Downing.</li>
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<li><i>“A variant version relates that Cronus, rather than swallowing his newborn sons, threw the infant Hades into Tartarus...as he threw newborn Poseidon into the sea.”</i> Interesting thought, but her source here is Carl Kerenyi</li>
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<li><i>“The story of the overthrow of the Titans is clearly at one level the story of the overthrow of a more ancient race of gods, that is of the displacement of an earlier cult by a later one.”</i> This seems obvious, but there is no evidence the Titans were worshipped by the Mycenaean and the few titanic cults outside Cronus at Olympia are clearly coincidence of name.</li>
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<li>“<i>The aniconic origin testifies to Hermes being a very early divinity. He is the herm. He is also the crossroad itself. Every threshold is Hermes. When silence falls in a conversation that, too, marks Hermes’ presence. He is there, at all transitions, marking them as sacred, as eventful, as epiphany. Our awareness of Hermes’ presence opens us to the sacredness of such moments, of those in-between times that are strangely frightening and that we so often try to hurry past. We never really know what may lie on the other side of any threshold. I think particularly of the moment of silence that may fall in the midst of a conversation with a beloved friend, when eye is locked into eye and one suddenly realizes how all the words have been evasion for this moment when soul gazes directly into soul</i>.” Wow!</li>
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<li>“H<i>ermes is also the only son of a nymph among the Olympians…all of the other Olympian gods except Dionysus are sons of goddesses.”</i> Except Athena, we might add. “<i>Where Hermes tries to hide his origin outside of the Olympian world, Dionysus flaunts his.”</i> Well, according to Graves, Dionysus rescues his mom Semele from Hades and sneaks her up the backstairs of Olympus under the divine name of Thyone. Heracles, to hide his mortal heritage, is ritually adopted by Hera.</li>
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<li><i>“The difference between gods and men, the divine immortality of the gods as contrasted with the finite mortality of humankind so important to Apollo, is of little import to Hermes.” “Apollo focuses on the importance of clearly defined boundaries, the gulf between the divine and the human…When Apollo says, “Know yourself.” he means, “Know you are not a god”</i>.”</li>
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<li>Apollo, <i>“a god whom the higher imagination of the Greek so exalted and purified that death and blood shed became unclean things in his sight…scholars want to separate the “real” Apollo from this original more fearful side is…the beginning of such idealization in the late classical world.</i>”</li>
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<li>“<i>The children of the major gods serve to bring into focused view some particular aspect of their divine parent.” </i>Students of Greg Nagy have heard this a lot. I thought I would just document and another scholar’s support for the notion.</li>
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<li>“<i>Hephaestus is the only Olympian god who works.</i>” That’s an interesting observation. Although Hera’s daughter Eileithyia serves as needed as mid-wife to the gods and Apollo Paean serves occasionally as doctor. But it is a good insight. Hephaestus has a heavy daily work load like his buddy Helios.</li>
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<li>“<i>Among the Olympians, only Hephaestus was not imagined as physically perfect, divinely beautiful.”</i></li>
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<li><i>“Ares was involved in many other liaisons and (sired) many sons, most of whom were violent. But surprisingly there are no accounts of his forcing himself upon women”</i></li>
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<li>“<i>I may know Zeus too well or rather may see him in a more forgiving light than many other women will. For I am a father’s daughter.” Reminding us of Athena’s statement in the Eumenides that, “I am for the male and entirely on the father's side.”</i></li>
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<li><i>“(Zeus) is represented as endowed with seemingly inexhaustible sexual potency. (Walter Burkett) has counted them up and calculated that Zeus had at least 115 mistresses.”</i></li>
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<li><i>“The Greeks understood Zeus as a god secure in rule, a god who maintains order without suppressing diversity, vitality, life…Zeus as embodying Greek polytheism, an order that includes without suppressing difference…the god ready to honor the sanctity of the guest, the stranger, the alien.”</i></li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11216523923707900157noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post-68919359411620539932018-09-26T11:46:00.000-08:002018-09-26T11:46:17.486-08:00TFBT: Who is the goddess of Menis?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">My friend </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Maya asked about the lameness of Hephaestus. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">I am going to ramble a bit answering. The myths of Hephaestus lameness are over the
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<li>·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">He
was lame at birth due to his parthenogenesis. (Homer,<i> Odyssey </i>8.267)<i> </i></span></li>
<li>·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">His
was lame because he was lame at birth and his mom threw him off Olympus. (Homer<i>,
Iliad </i>18.140)</span></li>
<li>·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">He
was lame because he got between his bickering parents and got tossed. (Apollodorus<i>, Bibliotheca </i>1.19)</span></li>
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the prototype for Typhon. There are several accounts of Typhon’s
conception, but the one including Hera involves a male deity this time<br />
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Hephaestus was not as scary as his brother, but there was a tale of his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">menis</i>; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="font-size: 14pt;">"[In the temple of Dionysus at Athens :] There are paintings here--Dionysus
bringing Hephaistos up to heaven. One of the Greek legends is that Hephaistos,
when he was born, was thrown down by Hera. In revenge he sent as a gift a
golden chair with invisible fetters. When Hera sat down she was held fast, and
Hephaistos refused to listen to any other of the gods save Dionysus--in him he
reposed the fullest trust--and after making him drunk Dionysus brought him to
heaven."</i></div>
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Being rejected by your parents and tossed out of Olympus could generate a lot
of anger and the separation from his people as in the case of Demeter and
Achilles indicates the </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">menis</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> kind of
anger. Like those two he sat sulking in his tent or more accurately retired to
his foster mother’s grotto where he “<i>wrought many intricate things; pins that
bend back, curved clasps, cups, necklaces” </i>until the king sends a </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> messenger begging him to come back.
Which he does, the cosmic crisis is resolved, Hera freed and balance
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Maya, I tried to address your question about Hephaestus’ fall from grace and
consequently triumphant return. Now for another question that came up
during the book club the other day. Who is the goddess of Menis?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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In the 18 Book of the Iliad Hephaistos tells his wife, that Thetis saved him when
his “brazen-faced mother” tossed him from Olympus for him being lame. He says
his soul would have known great sorrow had not Thetis and another nymph “<i>caught
me and held me”</i>. He lived there nine
years before returning to Olympus No other among the gods or among mortal men
knew about him except Thetis and the other nymph. They know of course since, “they saved me."<i>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Nine years is a long time for one’s <i>menis</i> to fester and rage. But
rather than spending that time forging <i>“a weapon in his hand more powerful than
the thunderbolt or the irresistible trident</i>,” (Isthmian 8) under Thetis’
guidance he turned his skills (and <i>menis</i>) to delicate jewelry and fine
furniture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Iliad (Book 1) we hear of a time when the gods revolted against Zeus and
bound him in his throne. There had to be some <i>menis </i>there!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would
the perfectly balanced and ordered universe topple into the abyss?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thetis
freed Zeus with opposition from none and restored the Olympic order.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Iliad the gods stand around Olympus wringing their hands and lamenting that
they are helpless in the face of Achilles <i>menis</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His wrath won’t abate until Hector’s body is
returned to Priam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So they invite Thetis
to Olympus, give her the best seat in the house (Athena’s at Zeus’ right hand)
a fancy goblet full of nectar and beg her to convince Achilles to give up the
body (and consequently his <i>menis</i>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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time in the <i>Iliad </i>where when there was <i>menis</i>, there was Thetis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I would propose that in some positive
sense that Thetis is the goddess of<i> Menis<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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followed my argument back and forth through the Iliad and find some hint of
truth in it, please follow me back to the opening lines; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><i>Sing, O goddess, the anger [mênis] of Achilles son
of Peleus, <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><i>that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.</i> (Iliad
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">If we think that Thetis
might be the goddess of Menis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need
to revisit Emily Schurr’s theory that the “goddess” addressed in the opening of
the <i>Iliad </i>is not the unnamed Muse we presume.<a href="file:///C:/Users/bmoulton/Desktop/Slyph.docx#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She suggests, “a previously undiscovered, and
highly meaningful, subtext.” Namely that the Muse of the Iliad is indeed
Thetis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><i>“(A) hint is made even more
resonant by the fact that Achilles' mother was, indeed, a goddess (Thetis) -
and that the reluctance to name the singing goddess explicitly allows for this alternative
interpretation to rise up in the audience's consciousness.</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The subtext and alternative
interpretation in the audience's consciousness, strengthens if we accept Menis
as an alternative name for Thetis, then sub-consciously we hear; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><i>who brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.”</i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/bmoulton/Desktop/Slyph.docx#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Emily
Schurr, "<a href="https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/displayPdf/1685">Recreating
the Creation: Reading between the Lines in the Proem of the <i>Iliad</i></a>,"
July 25, 2011.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11216523923707900157noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post-1860619792519760832018-09-11T14:34:00.001-08:002018-09-11T14:34:49.840-08:00TFBT: Christine Downing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I religiously attend the monthly used book sale at the local
library.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not too many scholarly tomes on
Greek Mythology, but occasionally...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More
commonly I pick up books in some way related to my favorite obsession.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Recently I found <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Book of the Goddess; Past and Present,</i> Editor Carl Olson.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of the articles in the middle of the book
I found interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The article that
sang to me to me the most was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Mother Goddess among
the Greeks</i> by Christine R. Downing.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The focus of Downing’s work is on Gaia, of course, and her
grand-daughters and great grand-daughters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Downing’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">resume</i> is not the
norm for my reading and she presses her argument too hard sometimes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The piece is little referenced and, like me, assumes
the reader is well read. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All that said,
I find some of her insight concise and clearer than other authors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I intend to read, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Our-Midst-Mythological-Masculine/dp/0824512421?qid=1536703747&refinements=p_27%3AChristine+Downing&s=Books&sr=1-6&ref=sr_1_6"><span style="color: blue;">“Gods
in Our Midst”</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A few quotes to consider; </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Tartarus is Gaia’s within-ness, Gaia is Tartarus’ self-externalization.”</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“The others </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(primordial gods)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> are supplanted <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ouranos by Zeus, Pontus by Poseidon. She is
not; indeed, she participates in the supplantation.”</i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In these goddesses </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(Metis, Leto, Artemis, Athena, Hestia, Aphrodite,
Hera, Hebe, Eileithyia Demeter)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Greeks represented in divine proportions
the mother who abandons her children or holds them too tight, the mother who
uses her children as agents to her marital struggles or to fulfill her own
frustrated ambitions.” </i>For example;<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span></div>
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<li style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Of the major Olympian goddesses only Artemis had a
mother – a mother; who she seems to have mothered from almost the moment <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of her own birth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The new-born daughter immediately sets about
assisting with the delivery of her twin brother Apollo and on many other
occasions rescues Leto from insult or danger.”</span></i></div>
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<li style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Demeter’s boundless love for her daughter,
Persephone seems at first glance to represent an idealized version of maternal
devotion-yet a closer reading suggests it may be her overinvestment in her
child that makes Persephone’s adduction by Hades a necessary </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">denouement.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As proven by Gaia’s involvement in the abduction as mentioned in the
Homeric Hymn to Demeter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">All and all a good short read if you are well read and know discretion. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11216523923707900157noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post-10050393469187909352018-09-03T20:30:00.004-08:002018-09-07T12:06:47.388-08:00VftSW: PVFD<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Years ago
I was a member of the Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department. I remember
some big fires downtown where everyone in the department was on the fireline
for days. Here the community jumped out to help move hoses when asked and
then stepped back from the scene until their help was asked for again.
(The new police chief from down south was shocked that there was no need for
crowd control.) <br />
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I remember stopping at the fire hall during those events to change out of
my soaked bunker gear into something drier. On the tables were enormous
bowls of finger food and civilians feverishly refilling air tanks so we could
stay on scene.<br />
<br />
I remember working with Search and Rescue. I was hiking home from Hammer
Slough. At that moment many people in the department and many in the
community were doing the same. My bibs and boots were covered in that
slick brown mud. My wife met me at the front door with the biggest
beaming smile. She’d heard the news: we’d found the toddler.<br />
<br />
And I worked with the Emergency Medical Technicians in so many capacities over
the years: flying them out to patients too close to death to move, hoisting
them over our heads to get them into the back seat of the helicopter with their
patient and send them into town; holding the fire hose on the EMTs while they
stabilized a patient in a wrecked car reeking of electrical fire; of them
working on a fellow firefighter who had collapsed during one of those big
downtown fires. But, the EMTs weren’t on their own the doctors and nurses in
the community along with a dentist, as I recall, came to help those nights too.<br />
<br />
We had, still have and are part of a great emergency services team. I
couldn’t be prouder or feel luckier to live here and be part of it.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11216523923707900157noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post-60722675911660393192018-09-01T15:25:00.002-08:002018-09-07T12:07:20.184-08:00TFBT: Quotes for August <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"For the gods are stronger than men." iliad 21.264<br />
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"The twin sons of Thracian Boreas came darting from the sky." Argonautica of AR<br />
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"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<br />
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"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<br />
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"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."<br />
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Peleus in the Argonautica “For it is not I who will flinch, since the bitterest pain will be but death.”<br />
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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,”</div>
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MLWest see a correlation between <i>The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women </i>and the parade of women Odysseus sees in Hades. (Page 33)</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="m_-8839545088545857299m_-9137289580789928330m_258630520507336078text m_-8839545088545857299m_-9137289580789928330m_258630520507336078Luke-17-15" id="m_-8839545088545857299m_-9137289580789928330m_258630520507336078en-NIV-25667" style="box-sizing: border-box;">One of them, (the ten lepers) when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God<span class="m_-8839545088545857299m_-9137289580789928330m_258630520507336078crossreference" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;"></span> in a loud voice.</span> <span class="m_-8839545088545857299m_-9137289580789928330m_258630520507336078text m_-8839545088545857299m_-9137289580789928330m_258630520507336078Luke-17-16" id="m_-8839545088545857299m_-9137289580789928330m_258630520507336078en-NIV-25668" style="box-sizing: border-box;">He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him—and he was a Samaritan. </span></span><span class="m_-8839545088545857299m_-9137289580789928330m_258630520507336078text m_-8839545088545857299m_-9137289580789928330m_258630520507336078Luke-17-17" id="m_-8839545088545857299m_-9137289580789928330m_258630520507336078en-NIV-25669" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box;">Jesus asked, <span class="m_-8839545088545857299m_-9137289580789928330m_258630520507336078woj" style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?</span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span class="m_-8839545088545857299m_-9137289580789928330m_258630520507336078text m_-8839545088545857299m_-9137289580789928330m_258630520507336078Luke-17-18" id="m_-8839545088545857299m_-9137289580789928330m_258630520507336078en-NIV-25670" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box;">Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?”</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span class="m_-8839545088545857299m_-9137289580789928330m_258630520507336078text m_-8839545088545857299m_-9137289580789928330m_258630520507336078Luke-17-19" id="m_-8839545088545857299m_-9137289580789928330m_258630520507336078en-NIV-25671" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box;">Then he said to him, <span class="m_-8839545088545857299m_-9137289580789928330m_258630520507336078woj" style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Rise and go; your faith has made you well.” Luke 17:15-19. In my life it is more like one in six. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I am re-reading M.L. West’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This must be a really good book because I just finished it and started
all over again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In case you are
wondering about the title; Hesiod composed a sequel to the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Theogony.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Catalogue of Women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>There is no intact copy of this five
volume work by Hesiod.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are many
fragments, which West has tried to arrange in the correct order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“Menelaus
is born; Helen is born (unexpectedly<sup>1</sup> ); everyone needed for the
Trojan War is born…Menelaus got Helen, and she bore Hermione…The moment
Hermione’s birth has been registered, there is an abrupt switch to the
gods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were riven with dissension
because of Zeus’ great plan to stir up a war, destroy large numbers of men and
remove the sons of the gods to live apart in the paradise conditions they had
enjoyed in the beginning.”</span></i></div>
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Helen, which would ignite the war, were separated by six plus year. I always
assumed this was because; Homer/Zeus was waiting for Achilles to be old enough
to enter the war or the sudden and coincidental death of Menelaus’ grandfather
was the first chance Homer/Zeus had to arrange a romance. But this fragment
(204.94ff) suggests that Hermione’s birth suddenly triggered Zeus’ Plan. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Why did Hermione’s birth stir up dissension?<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">What follows are his comments about Book 5.201 (Fragment
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“What
follows is astonishing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So far as we can
understand it, it describes not the abduction of Helen and the consequent
outbreak of the war, but a fundamental change in the condition of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Man was no longer to enjoy the easy abundance
of hitherto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was to be forced to sail
about the seas, to adopt a trading economy, Apollo observed with pleasure as
people busied themselves to keep their children from starvation…Gales blew from
the north, bending the forest and bringing down their leaves and fruits, making
the seas crash on the shore with terrifying force, wearing down human strength and
devastates the growing crops.” </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></div>
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for the discussion of Hermione’s Birth in Gonzalez’s article.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, I think we can rely on West’s summary
here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mythologically speaking we can
blame the Theban and Trojan War for the “historical” Bronze Age Collapse and
Hellenic Dark Ages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But is Hesiod
introducing a mini ice-age here?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I will have to revisit an excellent lecture; </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRcu-ysocX4"><span style="color: blue;">1177 BC: The Year
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says Hermione’s birth was “unexpected” whereas West tosses the word “abrupt”
into the telling of the tale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/40890984?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents"><span style="color: blue;">"Catalogue
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Over at the <a href="https://kosmossociety.chs.harvard.edu/">Kosmos Society</a> we’ve been studying the <i>Argonautica</i></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> by
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Why Orpheus first in the catalogue of the Argonauts?
Any significance to who comes next in the catalogue? West suggests that most
epic catalogues spiral out from the initial location of the tale. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li>·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Canthus eager for the quest, whom
Canethus son of Abas sent”,</span></i></li>
<li>·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Phalerus of the ashen spear. Alcon
his father sent him forth;”,</span></i></li>
<li>·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“146-150) Moreover Aetolian Leda sent
from Sparta strong Polydeuces and Castor”,</span></i></li>
<li>·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Ancaeus followed them as the third,
whom his father Lycurgus sent,”</span></i></li>
<li>·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Laocoon the brother of Oeneus,
Oeneus sent to guard his son: thus Meleagrus,”</span></i></li>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Theseus,
who surpassed all the sons of Erechtheus, an unseen bond kept beneath the land
of Taenarus, for he had “followed that path with Peirithous; assuredly both
would have lightened for all the fulfilment of their toil.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> I
wondered what this line was all about, but our discussion of Heracles cameo it
makes sense. AR is explaining why Theseus was not on the boat. He was still
stuck on that bench in Hades waiting for Heracles to rescue him. If he had been
on the boat than the epic would have been him instead of Jason, so AR had to
write him out of the story. With Theseus in Hades Castor and Polydeuces could
rescue Helen in Athens and then join the expedition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“185-189)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Yea,
and two other sons of Poseidon came; one Erginus, who left the citadel of
glorious Miletus, the other proud Ancaeus, who left Parthenia, the seat of
Imbrasion Hera” </i>Per Maicar; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parthenia is an old name for Samos . Joan V.
O’Brien in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Transformation of Hera</i>
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fatal, no venture will be unachieved, while Idas follows, even though a god
should oppose thee. Such a helpmeet am I that thou bringest from Arene.”(ll.
472-475) He spake, and holding a brimming goblet in both hands drank off the
unmixed sweet wine; and his lips and dark cheeks were drenched with it; and all
the heroes clamoured together and Idmon spoke out openly: (ll. 480-484) “Vain
wretch, thou art devising destruction for thyself before the time. Does the
pure wine cause thy bold heart to swell in thy breast to thy ruin, and has it
set thee on to dishonour the gods?</i>” This is Idas, strongest man in the
world after Heracles. If I recall correctly he would have beat Apollo to a pulp
if Zeus hadn’t intervened. He has a bit of an attitude and I am sure his
fiancée and future sister-in-law didn’t mind being abducted by the sons of Leda<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wise interpreter of divine Nereus”</i> was once mortal. As was Leucothea who
rose from the sea to speak to Odysseus in his epic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that day all the gods looked down from heaven upon the ship and the might of
the heroes, half-divine, the bravest of men then sailing the sea;”</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
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of Electryon were fighting; Taphian raider”.</span></li>
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maidens of Lesbos? He bedded Echidna! He was the one that convinced the others
to leave this golden age existence?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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command of Orpheus the youths trod a measure dancing in full armour, and
clashed with their swords on their shields, so that the ill-omened cry might be
lost in the air the wail which the people were still sending up in grief for
their king.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Like the corresponding Curetes dancing
about the crying Baby Zeus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a fierce quarrel fell upon them, and violent tumult, for that they had sailed
and left behind the bravest of their comrades. And Aeson’s son, bewildered by
their hapless plight, said never a word, good or bad; but sat with his heavy
load of grief, eating out his heart.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Some leader! Didn’t notice
three of his men were missing? Heracles would be hard-to miss. And how come all
the seers and helmsman had to make all the decisions?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My friend Helen says this is a new kind of
hero, a Hellenistic hero in a democratic city. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of Aeson, be not wroth with me, if in my folly I have erred, for grief wrought
upon me to utter a word arrogant and intolerable. But let me give my fault to
the winds and let our hearts be joined as before.”</i> Now that’s how you
apologize!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to be a monstrous son of baleful Typhoeus”.</i> None of Typhon’s children were
theomorphic. All were hybrids or animals. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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gods into the fabulous island bearing the same name in order to rescue her from
the pursuit of Phasis, the river god.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> (Dictionary of Greek and
Roman Biography and Mythology)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aea is
also the name of the capital of Colchis. This is the distant and mysterious
land where King Aeetes and his daughter Medea lived. It is near here that
Aeetes’ father Helios rested each morning on his couch before the sun-god and
his sister Eos, the Dawn launch into the sky. In “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The East Face of Helicon”</i> M.LWest (1997) argues Aea was tied to the
Akkadian dawn goddess Aya. “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It seems
impossible to separate this Aea from the name of the Babylonian goddess Aya,
who is the Sun-god’s wife and the goddess of sexual love”</i> (p. 407). (Thanks
to Jason Colavito for this insight.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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said, and starting forth they came to the mighty palace of Cypris, which her
husband, the halt-footed god, had built for her when first he brought her from
Zeus to be his wife</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, sometime
between the arrival of the Argo at Colchis and the final year of the Trojan
War, Hephaestus caught his wife and Ares in the net got the marriage annulled
and married a Grace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of many wiles.”</i> Doesn’t disaster always follow when someone is described
this way? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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were playing for golden dice, as boys in one house are wont to do.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When
young Patroclus kills the son of Amphidamas over a dice game, Menoetius whisked
the boy off to Peleus in Phthia to be educated with his cousin Achilles. (Hom.
Il. 23.85) In Norse mythology after the Fire Giants destroy what is left from
the universe, from the boiling sea arises Balder’s estate with Hod, a handful
of gods and the innocents who had hidden in his forested lands. The game of
dice, with which the gods played in their youth while they were yet free from
care, is found again among the flowers on the new earth. Some other quotes;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li>·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">“Mars
rolls his iron dice, and if they turn up snake eyes he sends a pair of nations
to war.” Steven Pinker <a href="http://t.co/29oNJ39how">http://t.co/29oNJ39how</a>.</span></li>
<li>·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Advice
from Hades, “Don’t bet your future on the roll of the dice.” <a href="http://t.co/6VYeV0AAjr">http://t.co/6VYeV0AAjr</a>. </span></li>
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his wedded wife, the youngest daughter of Tethys and Oceanus.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Is
the fact that she is the last of the 3000 daughters an indicator that the age
of the gods is over and the veil will be pulled between men and gods soon? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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[they found] going from chamber to chamber in search of her sister, for Hera
detained her within that day.”</i> That time of the month?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lyssa’s reluctance make Heracles slaying children at Hera’s command.
(Euripides, Heracles 815) Aphrodite and hence her children and the elder Eros
are outside the dispensation at Mecone. Maybe the goddesses really do need to
beg this favor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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most of all with the son of Chalciope”</i>. This is his grandson and second in
line to the throne<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Medea calling on Hecate. How come all of Hecate’s
stories are someone else’s; Jason and Medea, Zeus gathering allies, Hesiod’s
praise, HH to Demeter. She never gets to be the star of her own myth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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son of Aeson, art minded to yoke Aeetes’ oxen, and art eager for the toil,”</i>
Yoking and plowing was the bride price for Admetus’ wife. This is the ritual
act that ignited the Theban wars. In Ancient Greek aren’t toil and battle the
same word? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Once
he had heard a baleful prophecy from his father Helios, that he must avoid the
secret treachery and schemes of his own offspring and their crafty mischief.
Wherefore he was sending them, as they desired, to the Achaean land at the
bidding of their father—a long journey. Nor had he ever so slight a fear of his
daughters, that they would form some hateful scheme, nor of his son Apsyrtus;
but this curse was being fulfilled in the children of Chalciope.” </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Oops!
Misinterpreted that prophecy!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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advice of my wise friend <a href="http://mayas-corner.blogspot.com/">Maya.</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maya once said, “Bill, just because we are
having a Book Club, doesn’t mean you have to read the book and just because we
are reading a book, doesn’t mean you have to like it.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks Maya. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hesiod is credited with writing a poem about mortal women who slept with immortal gods. They are the ancestresses of the royal families of Ancient Greece. Alas the “Catalogue of Women” is lost and only fragments remain. West has done a brilliant and convincing job of aligning the fragments, extrapolating what was missing and reconstructing Hesiod’s lost masterpiece; its nature, structure and origins. This is a wonderful and well written book! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In untangling the fragments of cascading genealogical material he began to see clusters of stories and insights. We are familiar with two such clusters of myths; (4) The Trojan Cycle and (3) The Theban Wars. He postulates two more (an Aetolian-Elean-Pylian cycle”1) An Iolkos cycle and (2) </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">an Aetolian-Elean-Pylian cycle. Each with their own style and motivation. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What I present here I hope is enough to entice you get a copy of the book yourself to better understand the concept of the 4 Cycles. I also include some random notes I hope you will find interesting</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“<i><b>An Iolkos cycle, </b>comprising the sory of Pelias, Jason, th Argo’s voayae, the Funral Games for Pelias, the sack of Iolkos by Peleus and the deeds of Achilles<br /><br /><b>An Aetolian-Elean-Pylian cycle,</b> telling of Oineus’ slaughter of the sons of Prothaon, the Calydonian Boar Hunt, the war of the Kourets and Aetolians, the story of Meleagros, Heracles meeting with Meleagros I Hades and his subsequnt marriage to Deianeira, the sack of Oichalia and the war of the Pylians and Epeio.<br /><br /><b>A Theban Cycle, c</b>entring on the quarrel of Oedipus’ sons and the attacks on Thebes by the Seven and the Epigonoi.<br /><br /><b>A Troy Cycle</b>, telling of the abduction of Helen, the gathering of a great army at Aulis the war at Troy, the murder of Agemon and Orestes’ revenge and other stories of the heroes homecomig. “</i></span></blockquote>
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<br />“<i>the Aetolian and Elean kings were traced back to Aethlios”</i> (page 141 and 174)<br /><br />There seems that the sons of Demodike (daughter of Agenor) represent the peoples of the Pylian Cycle. The boys are Evenus, Molos, Pylos and Thestios. West refers to Molos’ grandsons (the Siamese twins that Nestor battled in his youth) as “monstrous” and equates them with the giant Aloadi. (pages 62, 63<br /><br />“<i>We know that the Theban cycle was established before the Iliad and before Hesiod.</i>” (page 154) West’s argument here is based on votive offerings.</span><b>Random Notes</b><br />
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"<i>One recurring pattern which may have struck the reader is that of an archetype-figure who has three sons standing for major divisions in the populations.</i>” (page 27)<br />
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"<i>The moment (</i>Menelaus and Helen's daughter)<i> Hermoine’s birth has been there registered there is an abrupt switch to the gods.They are riven with dissension because of Zeus’ great plan to stir up a war, destroy large numbers of men and to remove the sons of gods to live apart in the paradise conditions they had enjoyed in the beginning. What follows is astounding as far as we can follow it, it describes not the abduction of Helen and the conseqent outbreak of war, but a fundamental change in the conditions of life. Man was no longer to enjoy the easy abundance of hitherto. He was to be forced to sail about the sea, to adopt a trade economy </i>(page 119 on fragment 5.201)<br />
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"<i>Besides begetting children in the customary way, Deucalion created a tribe of men by throwing stones Zeus put in his way. These were the Leleges.</i>" 52<br />
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"<i>Hellen's wife is...a nymph of Mount Othrys.</i>" (page 57) I find this interesting because this peak was the fortress of the Titans during the ten year Titanomachy<br />
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West is great at explaining every hero’s eponymic name or which town she or he founded.<br />
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Speaking of Hesiod “<i>This is not to say that he (Hesiod) was never aware of chronological difficutlites. In Fragment 141.20 he may have said that Zeus allowed Sarpedon to live for three gnerations. Just what is needd to reconcile his pesence at troy with that of Minos’ grandson Idomeneus, since Minos and Sarpedon have been presented as brothers. “</i> (page 122)<br />
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“<i>The </i>(Iliadic?) <i>Catalogue of Ships …starts from Boeotia where the expedition assembled and proceeds at first in a spiral, Phocis, Locris, Euboiea, Attica, Salamis Peloponnese, Kephallena Aetolia, then Crete, Rhodes, etc., then norther Greece. The (</i>Hesiodic<i> ) Catalogue of (Helen’s) Suitors to judge by the incomplete remains, began from the the Peloponnese where Tyndareos lived and again sprialled clockwise to the west, (</i>the same as Il 2.631ff)<i> and north and down to Athens. In Homer Aias follows Menestheus immediately, but here two engries intervened, Salamis was followed by the larger islands, Euboea and Crete.” (</i>page 117) <i>“J.Schwartz indeed suggests that the cataloge</i>daughter of Kleisthenes)” (page 133)<br />
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“<i>The Graikoi are perhaps to be located in the west, around or beyond (the River) Pindus. It was presumably their prominence in Epirus at one time that led to their name being estabisihed in Latin for “Greeks” generally."</i> (page 54)<br />
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“<i>Why are Nelus and Pilias made twins, when they live at opposite ends of Greece, belonn gto different saga cyles and never hanything to do with one another? The explanation must have something to with the fact the Poseidon made love to their mother in the water of th Enipeus (River). There is an Enipeus right beside Salmone in Pisatis and another in Thesssaly (but close to Iolkos.</i>)” (page 142)<br />
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“<i>A vagrant cow led Kadmos to the site of Thebes and a vagrant bull led Europed quiete astray.</i>” 146<br />
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“<i>Most of the descendants of Lacedaion, son of Zeus and the mountain nymph Taygete had nothing to do with the Trojan War. “ </i>(page 156)<br />
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“<i>There is some reason to think that this patient porter of the earth and sky (Atlas) was once a Peloponnesian mountain god. “</i><br />
“<i>it is significant that the patronymic Aeacides, which occurs over two dozen times in the Homeric poems, always refers to Peleus or Achilles, never to Aias.</i>” (page 162)<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11216523923707900157noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post-25716206951685472882018-07-03T19:10:00.000-08:002018-07-03T19:21:46.962-08:00TFBT: The Glory of Your Time-hallowed Honor<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"<i>Oceanus addresses the chained Titan Prometheus “Now the whole earth cries aloud in lamentation . . . lament the greatness of the glory of your time-hallowed honor, the honor that was yours and your brothers’</i>.” (Aeschylus, <i>Prometheus Bound </i>407-410) </div>
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What was so great about the Iapetides? Hesiod lists, stout-hearted Atlas, glorious Menoetius, sly Prometheus and scatter-brained Epimetheus. The last brother’s epithet is not great, glorious or honoring. Let’s see what we know about them; <o:p></o:p></div>
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Atsma figures a primordial cosmology with the four named brothers above on the cardinal points, Cronus in the center and Oceanus circling outside this world. My own assumption that the replacement of Iapetus by Atlas next to the mountains named for him, corresponds to Prometheus bound to the Causcas’ in a position just made for the fallen Hyperion. Astma says “<i>Koios' alternate name, Polos (of the northern pole</i>), <i>suggests he was the Titan of the pillar of the north.”</i> Which of the Iapetides in the following generation took his roll I cannot say.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I recently was reading my Loeb edition of the Homeric
Hymns by M.L. West.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Specifically, the HH
to Demeter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These books are great
resources. The Ancient Greek is on the left, English on the right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, I try reading a few lines of the Greek
and then check my attempt by looking to the right at the English.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It surprises me how much more Greek I know
than I thought I know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyway, I glanced
at the phrase; “μακρὸν Ὄλυμπον”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I thought I knew what it meant. Glanced at West’s
translation “long Olympus”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Long</i>?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there it is at the </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=makro%5Cn&la=greek&can=makro%5Cn0&prior=kai\&d=Perseus:text:1999.01.0137:hymn=2&i=1"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Greek
Word Study Tool</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">; <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">μακρός
/ </span>long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Something like “blessed
Olympus” would seem more appropriate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>LSJ lists in addition some of the more common English words used for
translations; high, vast, remote…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So that should be the end of it right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the phrase “blessed Olympus” really
seemed familiar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I searched for it in
the </span><a href="https://kosmossociety.chs.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Sourcebook_Ancient_Greek_Hero_20171218.pdf"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ancient
Greek Hero in 24 Hours Source Book<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">and
in the massive collection of on-line texts at </span><a href="http://www.theoi.com/"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">www.theoi.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
Nothing!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Obviously, I am confusing the
Ancient Greek word μακρὸν with μακάρων / blessed, happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So that should be the end of it right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I am still thinking I read “blessed
Olympus”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So after searching Gutenberg.org, Google Books and
Google Scholar I found several examples where “μακρὸν Ὄλυμπον” was indeed
translated at “blessed Olympus”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
follows is those examples with bibliography to follow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First in Greek from </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collections"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Perseus</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
and then, the “blessed Olympus” text.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<b>Iliad 5.395-399. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><u><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=tlh%3D&la=greek&can=tlh%3D2&prior=a)/lgos" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">τλῆ</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=d%27&la=greek&can=d%2713&prior=tlh=" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">δ᾽</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Ἀΐδης <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=e%29n&la=greek&can=e%29n2&prior=*)ai/+dhs" target="_blank">ἐν</a> <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=toi%3Dsi&la=greek&can=toi%3Dsi0&prior=e)n" target="_blank">τοῖσι</a> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=pelw%2Frios&la=greek&can=pelw%2Frios0&prior=toi=si" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">πελώριος</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=w%29ku%5Cn&la=greek&can=w%29ku%5Cn0&prior=pelw/rios" target="_blank">ὠκὺν</a> <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=o%29i%2Bsto%2Fn&la=greek&can=o%29i%2Bsto%2Fn0&prior=w)ku%5Cn" target="_blank">ὀϊστόν</a>,<br />
</span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=eu%29%3Dte%2F&la=greek&can=eu%29%3Dte%2F0&prior=o)i+sto/n" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">εὖτέ</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=min&la=greek&can=min4&prior=eu)=te/" target="_blank">μιν</a> <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=wu%29to%5Cs&la=greek&can=wu%29to%5Cs0&prior=min" target="_blank">ωὐτὸς</a> <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=a%29nh%5Cr&la=greek&can=a%29nh%5Cr0&prior=wu)to%5Cs" target="_blank">ἀνὴρ</a> <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=ui%28o%5Cs&la=greek&can=ui%28o%5Cs1&prior=a)nh%5Cr" target="_blank">υἱὸς</a> <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=*dio%5Cs&la=greek&can=*dio%5Cs0&prior=ui(o%5Cs" target="_blank">Διὸς</a> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=ai%29gio%2Fxoio&la=greek&can=ai%29gio%2Fxoio0&prior=*dio%5Cs" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">αἰγιόχοιο</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
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</span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=au%29ta%5Cr&la=greek&can=au%29ta%5Cr0&prior=e)/dwken" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">αὐτὰρ</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=o%28%5C&la=greek&can=o%28%5C1&prior=au)ta%5Cr" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ὃ</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=bh%3D&la=greek&can=bh%3D0&prior=o(%5C" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">βῆ</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=pro%5Cs&la=greek&can=pro%5Cs0&prior=bh=" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">πρὸς</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=dw%3Dma&la=greek&can=dw%3Dma0&prior=pro%5Cs" target="_blank">δῶμα</a> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=*dio%5Cs&la=greek&can=*dio%5Cs1&prior=dw=ma" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Διὸς</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=kai%5C&la=greek&can=kai%5C4&prior=*dio%5Cs" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">καὶ</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=makro%5Cn&la=greek&can=makro%5Cn0&prior=kai%5C" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">μακρὸν</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=*%29%2Folumpon&la=greek&can=*%29%2Folumpon1&prior=makro%5Cn" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ὄλυμπον</span></b></a></span></u><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> (Perseus)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“He went to the palace of
Zeus, on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">blessed Olympus</b>, with a
grieving heart.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Blakely, 2015)</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=*%28%2Fhrh&la=greek&can=*%28%2Fhrh0&prior=a)/lloi" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ἥρη</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=t%27&la=greek&can=t%270&prior=*(/hrh" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">τ᾽</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=h%29de%5C&la=greek&can=h%29de%5C0&prior=t%27" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ἠδὲ</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=*poseida%2Fwn&la=greek&can=*poseida%2Fwn0&prior=h)de%5C" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ποσειδάων</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=kai%5C&la=greek&can=kai%5C1&prior=*poseida/wn" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">καὶ</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=*palla%5Cs&la=greek&can=*palla%5Cs0&prior=kai%5C" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Παλλὰς</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=*%29aqh%2Fnh&la=greek&can=*%29aqh%2Fnh0&prior=*palla%5Cs" target="_blank">Ἀθήνη</a>:<br />
</span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=a%29lla%5C&la=greek&can=a%29lla%5C1&prior=*)aqh/nh" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ἀλλὰ</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=su%5C&la=greek&can=su%5C1&prior=a)lla%5C" target="_blank">σὺ</a> <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=to%2Fn&la=greek&can=to%2Fn0&prior=su%5C" target="_blank">τόν</a> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=g%27&la=greek&can=g%270&prior=to/n" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">γ᾽</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=e%29lqou%3Dsa&la=greek&can=e%29lqou%3Dsa0&prior=g%27" target="_blank">ἐλθοῦσα</a> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=qea%5C&la=greek&can=qea%5C0&prior=e)lqou=sa" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">θεὰ</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=u%28pelu%2Fsao&la=greek&can=u%28pelu%2Fsao0&prior=qea%5C" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ὑπελύσαο</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=desmw%3Dn&la=greek&can=desmw%3Dn0&prior=u(pelu/sao" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">δεσμῶν</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">,<br />
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bind him in chains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But you O Goddess,
interposing, freed him from his bonds by quickly calling to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">blessed Olympus</b>, him of the hundred
hand.” (A Graduate of the University of Oxford, 1821)</span></div>
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lofty and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">blessed Olympus</b>; - Him who
gods Briareos call” (<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Richard F.
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ground off his horses”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(David Gravolet, 2016)</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=h%29w%5Cs&la=greek&can=h%29w%5Cs0&prior=xalkoxitw/nwn" target="morph"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ἠὼς</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=me%2Fn&la=greek&can=me%2Fn0&prior=h)w\s" target="morph"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">μέν</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=r%28a&la=greek&can=r%28a1&prior=me/n" target="morph"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ῥα</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=qea%5C&la=greek&can=qea%5C0&prior=r(a" target="morph"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">θεὰ</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=prosebh%2Fseto&la=greek&can=prosebh%2Fseto0&prior=qea\" target="morph"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">προσεβήσετο</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=makro%5Cn&la=greek&can=makro%5Cn0&prior=prosebh/seto" target="morph"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">μακρὸν</span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=*%29%2Folumpon&la=greek&can=*%29%2Folumpon0&prior=makro\n" target="morph"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ὄλυμπον</span></b></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
</span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=*zhni%5C&la=greek&can=*zhni%5C0&prior=*)/olumpon" target="morph"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ζηνὶ</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=fo%2Fws&la=greek&can=fo%2Fws0&prior=*zhni\" target="morph"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">φόως</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=e%29re%2Fousa&la=greek&can=e%29re%2Fousa0&prior=fo/ws" target="morph"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ἐρέουσα</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=kai%5C&la=greek&can=kai%5C1&prior=e)re/ousa" target="morph"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">καὶ</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=a%29%2Fllois&la=greek&can=a%29%2Fllois0&prior=kai\" target="morph"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ἄλλοις</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=a%29qana%2Ftoisin&la=greek&can=a%29qana%2Ftoisin0&prior=a)/llois" target="morph"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ἀθανάτοισιν</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">:
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approached <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">blessed Olympus</b>
disclosing light to Zeus and the other immortals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Blakely, 2015)</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Perseus Digital Library</span></span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">, Gregory R. Crane, Editor in Chief,
Tufts University.</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></div>
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<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=oqpvCQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Ralph+E.+Blakely,+Homer&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiW_Nbi6fnbAhWwzlkKHZqjBRsQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=Ralph%20E.%20Blakely%2C%20Homer&f=false"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Iliad</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">,
Homer, Translated by Ralph Blakely</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">, New York 2015<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amazon says of Blakely that he “is proficient
in six languages (German, Spanish, French, Italian, Latin and Greek). He has
been an organist-choirmaster and a private investor, and currently serves on
the board of directors at the Carolina Art Association/Gibbes Museum of Art.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently he is a longtime downtown
Charleston resident</span></div>
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<a href="https://dgdissemination.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/ihexampdf2.pdf"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Iliad Handout Lines 1453 to 1530</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Translated and Annotated by David Gravolet 2016<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gravolet
appears to have written myriad study guides over the years and just graduated
from a Jesuit High School with a perfect ACT score.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008428472"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Iliad Alpha</span></i></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">, done into English hexameters, by Richard F. Biedermann
... [and other] members of class one of the graduating class of 1901 of the De
Witt Clinton high school. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ed. by Frances Elizabeth
Holmant Flint.</span></div>
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<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x000676782;view=1up;seq=71;skin=mobile"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Iliad of Homer</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
translated in English Prose as literally as the different idioms of the Greek
and English languages will allow; with Explanatory Notes by a Graduate of the University
of Oxford.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Printed for Munda and Slatter
and G &W. B. Whitaker, Ave-Maria-Lane, London 1821,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Women could not attend lectures or taken
examinations at Oxford until the late 1870s so it doubtful that is a pseudonym
for a woman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In his commentaries on </span><a href="http://johnstoniatexts.x10host.com/homer/homertranslations.htm"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">published
translations of the Iliad Johnston</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> suggests Henry Francis
Cary (1772-1844) as the author and then promptly dismisses the notion. </span></div>
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possible sources to check out for Blessed Olympus</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007699905">https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007699905</a></span></div>
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