TFBT: Quotes and Links, Part XI

  “For while this council-hall is filling, it is good to be silent,” The Eumenides 570
 

For safety officers everywhere; "Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence,”Isaiah 65:6"

Foolish man, anger amidst woes is not suitable. http://t.co/3Ph6UqbmuD

Five rubles for every tail handed in. They handed out 2.5 million rubles before they discovered a factory ... making tails out of wolfskins. Dumas

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Mahatma Gandhi

 Filos to Nagy; I learned...different translation you had for "lethe", which is to be "disconnected" as opposed to "forget." CB22.1x

“Father of men and gods (or)...son of Cronus. The first is the Olympian.  The other has worrying “ despotic “ features;  " Philippe Rousseau

Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night. https://t.co/tJ5JygexBE

Eurotas...flowed as a tributary into Helen's immortal myth. http://t.co/7I09ax28

Euripides Bacchae 881 and 901 "beautiful is near and dear forever."

Erwin Rohde wrote that the Python at Delphi was an earth spirit, who was conquered by Apollo, and buried under the Omphalos,

"Erinyes; We drive murderers from their homes.

Athena; And where is the end of exile for a killer?

Erinyes;  Where happiness is not a custom."

Eos' epithet "early-born" indicates her father Hyperion was first out of the womb, so she was early born among the 2nd generation Titans?

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise:..Psa 100:4  

"Elpenor’s death occurs at a moment moving from sleep to wafefulness.    Stamatia Dova,  Greek Heroes in and out of Hades."

Elpenor as uninitiated, the companion who is not meant to become "disthanes" (twice-died). Stamatia Dova,  Greek Heroes in and out of Hades

"Eleusis...the great and unutterable mysteries,   STUDIES IN ORPHISM: by F. S. Da ow, A. M., Ph.D. (Harv.)

"Electra; What shall we get mom for Mothers Day?

Orestes; Well sis, she needs a new axe"

"Electra; Mom, what should I get dad for Father's Day?

Clytemnestra; Agamemnon will need a new bathrobe."

Earth will cry out forbidding me to touch her,the sea and the river-springs will refuse me a crossing,  http://t.co/yIeo6gCGRo

Don't let the fear of losing what you have and lose what God has intended for you. https://t.co/l4OpUSoIgd

“Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing people showed hospitality to angels without knowing it.” Hebrews 13:2

Don’t wait! Build ye houses & dwell in them & plant gardens & eat the fruit of them; Take ye wives & beget sons & daughters  Jer 29:5-6

Doesn't Haides mean son of Ha?

Nanna means grandmother in Arabic.  Love that word.

Do Olympian gods bath?  Or just goddesses?

Dissolute queens&bloodthirsty kings have always been the most lavish patrons of the saints. Adventures in Czarist Russia” Alexandre Dumas

Dio Chrysostomus found it absurd that, after Helen’s abduction by Paris, neither the Dioskouroi nor Menelaus...gave chase (Or. 11.60,69,72).

Didn't know Hephaestus' daughter wed Nilus https://t.co/BHeCmmCgss

TFBT: Quotes and LInes Part X

Hippolytus; "No god who is miraculous by night pleases me."   I guess he didn't like Santa Claus either.  Another mistake!

High up on our left rose the perpendicular walls of the misty hill, fringed with tufted pine,

HH to Apollo 114 "They went their way, like shy wild-doves in their going."

Hesiod’s claim that “men and gods are born from the same place” according to West, is that they started on the same terms” (West 1978:178)

Hesiod established (the) theomorphic standard of appearance... human beings are anthropomorphic because they resemble the gods. J S-Clay

Heroicus4.9 Change your dress! I heard this ... but did nothing; afterwards...I understood that he was commanding me to change my way life. 

Heroicus 3.2 Lead the way; I will follow even beyond the interior of Thrace.

Here's looking at you, kid. https://t.co/tJ5JygexBE

Here's a bad idea; Athens to Sparta "For it has always been the law that the weaker should be subject to the stronger.”  Thucydides.

Heracles cults are spread througout almost the entire Greek world - Crete is the only notable exception.  http://t.co/usQgsjp1

Heracles contained the potential to shatter the limits of Greek Religion.  http://t.co/usQgsjp1

Heracleidae; a patronymic from Heracles, applied...to those descendants of the hero who... invaded and took possession of Peloponnesus. https://t.co/Od6VOekSpH

Hera’s prediction of the marriage of Achilles and Medea in the Elysian Fields, the traditional abode of the blessed https://t.co/dMyiA05kze

Hera kindled in...the demi-gods a sweet all conquering passion to sail aboard the Argoto win a cure for death itself in renown. Pythian 4

Hephaistos, the violent obstetrician http://t.co/usQgsjp1

Hephaestus, the crippled magician. https://t.co/zViA5WKolG

Hephaestus refused to listen to any other of the gods save Dionysus...making him drunk Dionysos brought him to heaven. Pausanias,1.20.3

Helen was carried off by Paris when she was sacrificing to the Thyiades & Leucothea.  LYCOPHRON, ALEXANDRA  102 ftnote 5, transl. A. W. Mair

Helen speak of Achilles, "as the new Mortal, shedding his glory, limped slowly across the sand." http://t.co/1WQJuX7x

“Helen seduced Odysseus at Troy! by bathing and oiling him and his telling her all the Greeks plans.” Homeric Moment by Eva Brann

Helen is conceived through Zeus’ union with Leda at the boundary where the slow river/ meets the tide.    http://t.co/ynulb3UN

Helen can assert hers and Paris’ transgressions and...grievous consequences exit to satisfy the needs of the poetic medium. Tobias A. Myers

Hektor is the only Trojan in the Iliad who is described as "equal to Zeus in wisdom" 8.8  http://t.co/95EKuNFW2N

Heard a cannery worker on the street say, "They're working me like a Hebrew Slave."

Hear me, bright children of Earth and Heaven, that I may say what my heart within me bids."  Hesiod, Theogony 644

He who sows destruction reaps destruction. Euripides The Daughters of Troy

He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.  John 5:35

He speaks to the point unfailingly w/gentle respect. He stands out among those assembled. As he walks thru the city they look on him as a god

He said and nodded with this shadowy brows, waved on the immortal head the ambrosial locks and all Olympus trembled at the nod.  Iliad 1.527

HD describes Helen upon an Egyptian shore where... The sea at the lowest tide and the Nile flowing over the sand. http://t.co/ynulb3UN

Halo?  Zeus seated on topmost (Mt.) Gargaros with a fragrant cloud encircling his head as with a diadem." Iliad 15: 153

Hall’s; The Return of Ulysses and sonnet by Millay identifying Chaos rather than Proteus as the writers antagonist. https://t.co/tIRjUsp8Bw

Google Ngram Viewer The three great Athenian Tragedians http://t.co/4zHPrlNT via @orwant

Gods are not anthropomorphic.  Men are theomorphic.

Gleanings on Jorgensen’s Law: http://t.co/ohvleISu

Give me a man short and squarely set upon his legs, a man full of heart, not to be shaken from the place he plants his feet. Archilochus

Giovannini 1969:67, areas not included in the travels of Pythian Apollo correspond to the areas not included in the Catalogue of Ships

George M. Calhoun, every meal was a sacrifice and an act of worship, and every sacrifice a meal.

Garden gnomes descended from priapai?!  https://t.co/wdrMWwvIIU

Gaia's line(age)remains separate from Chaos’ “ intercourse between 2 fundamentally opposite cosmic entities impossible” http://t.co/vm67pRDe

TFBT: Quotes and Links Part IX

 

Iliad 1:199 “Achilles turned in amazement, and by the fire that flashed from her eyes at once knew that she was Athena” How did he know?

"Iliad 1.157 Achilles describes Phthia along with both mountain and sounding sea, the traditional metaphor for himself.   

Took a bias test today.  Ends up I am too Machevillan to fall into that trap 

Iliad 1.131-2 “Do not thus, mighty though you are, godlike Achilles, do not hide things in your mind 

If your lunch date says call if you aren't going to make, they are going to call and say they can't make it.

If your lunch date says call and remind me, don't bother.

If ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words? John 5:47

If to err is human and to forgive divine, choose one’s husband foolishly,  forgive endlessly and approach (sainthood) http://t.co/07XT2WdD

If they say they have trust issues, it means you can't trust them.

If tele-conference is a conference over the phone; a tele-worker works over the phone, isn't "tele-machus" a warrior who phones it in?

If it is my (Ares) fate to be struck by Zeus’ thunderbolt and to lie together with the corpses in the dust. Iliad XV 117-118

Identify innovators, avoid these individuals when forming the...team. If they embrace your idea, it will surely die.  http://t.co/aXIlSKYLMR

I’m a non-serious academic. I make no apologies for this | Dean Burnett https://t.co/ZR6mgTvfkT

 “He has cast aside his state of anger and has chosen being dear  instead.” Iliad XVI 282
 

  Polydeuces chose the life of Castor, who had perished in battle. (Nemean 10.59)

Gold, the all-conquerer, Overcomes walls and chains. Paulus Silentiarius"

His coming was like the night. Iliad 1.47"

Sailing on the wine-dark sea to men speaking other languages [=foreign],” Od. 1.183

Stop! Abandon your anger, which causes pain for your heart.        Iliad IX 260"

“Weeping much” for Homer, it is heroic to cry.  http://t.co/ZwfgUML8D7

  "Who art thou, mighty one, among mortal men?  Iliad 6.123

From whose (Nestor's) lips the streams of words ran sweeter than honey."

"" Even as are the generations of leaves, such are those also of men."" Iliad 6.146"

"I would rather stand three times with a shield in battle than give birth once.” Euripides, Medea 251

I would not renew the pain in the recital. http://t.co/3Ph6UqbmuD

“I was beginning to be the executioner of my present felicity, and the tormentor of my heart.” http://t.co/cwp0uukP0u

I speak as it is borne in upon me from the sky, Odyssey 1:202

I should remember this one more often; Proverbs 21:23, “Whoever guards his mouth and tongue  Keeps his soul from troubles."

I say again that the greatest good of man is daily to converse about virtue. Plato Apology of Socrates 18a,

I prefer her to Clytemnestra, my wedded wife, since she is not inferior to her, either in form, stature, mind, or in handiwork. (Iliad 1.113)

I love the irony that the Iliadic phrase "beyond destiny" is transliterated; "hyper-moron".

I learned in Homeric Vocabulary class that the Greek "Theta" does not equal the Old English "Thorn", I have many  "th" sounds to unlearn

I know the number of the grains of sand & the measure of the sea. I understand...and I hear the one who does not speak. Herodotus 1.47.3

“I have withdrawn the veil from your eyes, that you know gods and men apart.”   Iliad 5.127

I found power in the mysteries, exaltation in...the Muses, am versed in reasoning...but Fate is stronger than anything I know.  Euripides

"I feigned a fainting fit or...swooned; I fell striking my head...with a...prayer for annihilation.”  Casanova http://t.co/HhAeEAPafn"

“I feel like dancing. It's foolishness...but when the world sees the light. They'll dance...like we're dancing now.” http://t.co/D7T4w6Iy

“I drew aside the curtain... I saw a family of hares performing a fantastic dance by moon light in a field beside the track.”  Alexandre Dumas

I couldn't say whether I feigned a fainting fit or...truly swooned; all I know is that I fell...striking my head against the wall" Casanova

I am familiar w/the fault-finding character...of those who dominate the study of epic poetry in my time.  Pausanias, 9.30.3

I am about to do a new thing: now it springs forth, do you not percieve it?  Isaiah 43:19

“I (Achilles) love somebody (Patroclus), because he's myself.” That's the closeness. And that's what is expressed by "psukhe."  Nagy; CB22.1x

Hydromachy pervades the action of the Iliad. Jonathan Fenno

Hopkins (2006) unsafe behavior's the last link in a causal chain (don't) aim programs at front-liners aim safety programs at managers

Honor is of this world; glory...belongs to the hereafter http://t.co/KeYzecO4X2

Homer prayed (to) see (Achilles) as soon as Homer looked at the hero, he was blinded by the gleam of the armor https://t.co/GCNyud5Yp0

Homer never actually invokes the Muses; it is either an unnamed muse or an unnamed goddess.