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...om the Odyssey that the author used are from the renowned translation from Greek to Italian done by Rosa Calzecchi Onesti, Published by Einaudi. I h... ...ranslated these passages, instead of utilizing a renowned translation from Greek to English, because there seems to be no translation from Greek int... ... live on bread alone but on bread and…. Beauty”. A.M. PART ONE The Greek gods nourished themselves with nectar and ambrosia and I am firmly ... ...ater, the Trojan prince Paris kidnaps Helen and takes her off to Troy, the Greek princes honor their vow and put together a great army. They then go... ...d the beauty his heart desires so badly, from the ravages of death? The Greek princes make a vow; they make a pact to defend beauty even at the c... ... point out that both the sorceress Circe and the nymph Calypso, two of the goddesses that fell in love with Ulysses, promise to make him immortal if ...

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...uch ancient concepts and deities in his works. I admittedly am no scholar of Greek mythology, but I am fascinated enough to be caught up in his brilli... ...esplendence without a final destination. 26 Birth She is the fairest of all Goddesses, an angel in the image of God. Where the commandments are engra... ... Wielded by Eros’s trusty bow, will hold me therefore dear to her heart.” In Greek mythology Eros is the God of Love. Eros according to legend was res... ...or the embraces of Heaven and Earth and Man and Woman. Once pierced by Eros (Greek) Cupid (Roman) their arrows of love in its most majestic powerful f... ...the moment her world changed. 113 Lyric Quotes R “She is the fairest of all Goddesses, an angel in the image of God.” R “Her eyes are the for loving ...

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...praises, acted out his exploits. The other arts were also linked to gods and goddesses as well. The art of Science flourished because people believed ... ...nity of escape. For the tempest-tossed seaman, he endured shipwreck. For the Greeks, he appealed to their belief in an unknown God. For the Hebrews, h...

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...istorical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully illustrated by the author-artist....

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...e private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. E... ...ction of five historical novels written in the form of journals by the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos, Christ, Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, an... ...e most distant to the most recent they are: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Fo... ...slator’s permission. The poems appeared in Sappho, Lyrics in the Original Greek, with translations by Willis Barnstone, Anchor Books, Doubleday, 196... ...er the heavenly dew forever flourishes the narcissus, the crown of great goddesses...” 85 Mytilene have not seen Phaon for days ... ...He understood my rebellion, the rankling perturbations of my life. “I’m a Greek,” he said. “I realize your alienation. I’m new here. I have much to ...

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...In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetr...

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...SAPPHO’S JOURNAL: In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her ... ... "A historical novel that recounts the life, thought, and times of the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos, based on a study of ancient Greece and Sap... ...he most distant to the most recent they are: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakes- peare; and Abraham Lincoln. F... ...slator’s permission. The poems appeared in Sappho, Lyrics in the Original Greek, with translations by Willis Barnstone, Anchor Books, Doubleday, 196... ...er the heavenly dew forever flourishes the narcissus, the crown of great goddesses...” 81 Mytilene have not seen Phaon for days ...

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...om the Odyssey that the author used are from the renowned translation from Greek to Italian done by Rosa Calzecchi Onesti, Published by Einaudi. I h... ...ranslated these passages, instead of utilizing a renowned translation from Greek to English, because there seems to be no translation from Greek int... ...is is why Ulysses refuses to accept the 12 immortality that the sovreign goddesses Circe and Calypso offer him if he consents to marry them. g.... ...ce, with so much conviction. As far as I know, no expert in mythology, Greek or World literature can find someone else who has turned something ... ...ts human forces and human creativity. While almost all the gods from the Greek Olympus are present in the Iliad, only a few are found in the Odyss... ...gical vision is not in line with the beliefs that were prevalent among the Greeks of his time, even though he uses the gods they venerated in his po... ...ORTALITY Both the enchantress Circe and the nymph Calypso, two of the goddesses that fall in love with Ulysses, promise they will make him immo... ...s and he earns the right to stay up on Olympus with the celestial gods and goddesses. Even so, Homer shows us Hercules as another shadow among the ... ...e America to return to Greece. The reason is because they are not really goddesses, they’re only mortal women, and their divinity is only a creati...

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...Philospho e Medico). So Scholler-like did he undertake what Latine prose; Greeke, Latine, Italian or French Poesie should crosse my way (which as Bu... ..., Astronomy, Musike, and all the Mathematikes yet holde their name of the Greekes: and the Greekes drew their baptizing water from the conduit-pipes... ...o, Aristotle and many; or of purpose, as all since havemade most know the Greeke, and almost the Latinr, even translated their whole treatises? Why ... ...ineth, neither Homers verse can be well exprest in Latine, nor Virgils in Greeke, nor Petrarch in either. Suppose Homertooke nothing out of any, for ... ...Antonius in Tullie, the one seemed to contemne, the other not to know the Greeks, whereas the one so spake Greeke as he seemed to know no other tong... ... And the same authority which Numa gave his lawes under the title of this Goddesses patronage, Zoroaster, Law-giver to the Bactrians and Persians, g... ... caste upon the God of acquaintance, of amitie and goodwill; and upon the Goddesses, protectresses of humanity and justice, the vice of ingratitude,... ...lpa flagravit quotidiana. -- Catul. Eleg. iv. 138. Ev'n Juno, chiefe of Goddesses, oft-time, Hath growne hot at her husbands daily crime. When jea... ...to you, or what shall I not write to you in these times? May the gods and goddesses loose me worse then I dayly feele myselfe to perish, if I can te...

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...lical quotations in this book are translations of the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts by the author, as also are quotations from Plato. TABLE OF CON... ...53 onwards. THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION vi close friend through my studies of Greek. Might Jung, with his statements about the hopelessness of ever achie... ...e scanty, understanding of the nature of human life. Translations from the Greek and Hebrew are my own, except in a few instances specifically noted i... ...+ Palestinian + Arab + Mesopotamian Cultures Hebrew Hebrew + Zoroastrian + Greek + Gnostic Judaism Christian Christian + Arab Christianity Islam Figur... ...o the work of an individual, Zarathustra, about 600 BC, often known by the Greek spelling of his name as Zoroaster. Zoroaster’s religious system swept... ...ecognized spirit beings (i.e., orendas imaged as spirit beings) or gods or goddesses appeared, might contain matters of importance to the whole commun...

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...ardless of size. By using the theoretical abstract straight line of ancient Greek geometry and abstract mathematics which does not exist in the ac... ...between equals was created, when Paris of Troy fell in love with Helen of the Greeks, and both the Trojans and the Greeks were almost completely des... ...t: is also in a state of weightlessness. Apollo is the Sun God of the Ancient Greeks. The Apollo rocket is the son of the Sun God. Once the sperm ... ...r since it was invented. It goes back to the practice of alchemy, and to the Greeks, all the way back to Egypt: 7,000 years ago. When Egyptian alc... ... schizophrenia, a state of mental insanity that had become normal for wealthy Greeks in Greece at that time. He was trying to rationalize and uphold... .... All of the undead wraiths, goblins, spirits, angels, devils, demons, gods, goddesses, etc: are evil and must be killed. If they are not complete... ... tens of thousands of years every living person knew there were many gods and goddesses and spirits. When all civilized humanity had been worshippi... ...ivilized humanity had been worshipping tens of thousands of different gods and goddesses for untold thousands of year. When you arrive in the re... ...d to propitiate and appease and sacrifice to so many ghouls called ‘gods’ or ‘goddesses’, that these undead things could easily find an excuse for c...

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...nother 400 years. He couldn‘t have written it down because he died before Greek writing was developed. While it may have been written in another lan... ... While it may have been written in another language, it wasn‘t written in Greek for another 400 years. So we might question whether everything in th... ...lace. Was it more of a conglomeration of 300 years of warfare between the Greeks of the west and those who lived in what we now call Turkey? Did Achi... ... there is uniformity in nature. Science cannot give certainty. The ancient Greek "scientists" could look at the sky and realize that the sun moves ar... ... ideas of Mithraism were infused into the developing early Christian sect. Greek thought was also influential in the development of Christianity thro... ... Zeus or Jupiter were the heads of the gods. Aphrodite and Venus were the goddesses of love. For the monotheists their God is usually all knowing an... ...re or the god of nature. Then other aspects of the One may become gods or goddesses, such as gods of the harvest, hunt, or war. ―The native Ame...

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... an old man in ancient garb. At the age of four she could not recognize the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus sculpted into the cloud or a cloud shaped o... ...him into a better person if she isolated him. With the exception of creative goddesses like herself, a mind was a photocopy machine and a file cabinet... ...n demeaning mental and physical prostitution before becoming one of the rare goddesses of men whose novel ideas were a commodity. The dream became one... ...city filled with drug addicts, drug lords and perhaps one or two intoxicated goddesses like herself. Tonight with Hilda, shaking her booty in the pub'... ...ble -- a relationship is relating and we do it with the perfection that only goddesses can do in such matters." She knew that her positive summary was... ...his time. You have a body and garments that I would ascribe as being Ancient Greek and godessesque. So, what is it?" "So haughty and so cold. And I...

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... specimens, return the earth to a biblical paradise ruled by demigods and goddesses. Nelson's obsession with Greek mythology was the core of his secr... ...biblical paradise ruled by demigods and goddesses. Nelson's obsession with Greek mythology was the core of his secret society. Science and technology...

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...“I just wish I knew how dressing like a sheep-herding strumpet fits in with Greek myth,” she muttered to the darkness. ***** Daniel wished h... ... poetic spells to run away with themselves. Morgan worried her choice of a Greek myth as her theme might tempt her to do that tonight. She’d made ... ...o notice the wrinkles creasing her cheek and brow. Statues should not age; goddesses should not acquiesce to change. “I was not the one to replace...

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...s [Note: I trust I am justified in employing this as an equivalent for the Greek leschai.] of the old men, and delighted all by the charms of his poet... ... as must be indispensably sup- posed for long manuscripts, among the early Greeks, was thus one of the points in Wolf’s case against the primitive int... ...pe wrecked, seems to prove beyond a doubt, that the pronun- ciation of the Greek language had undergone a considerable change. Now it is certainly dif... ...al. “At what period,” continues Grote, “these poems, or in- deed any other Greek poems, first began to be written, must be matter of conjecture, thoug... ... brings to our view the alterations brought about by two centuries, in the Greek language, the coined money, the habits of writing and reading, the de... ...around his head. Say, virgins, seated round the throne divine, All-knowing goddesses! immortal nine! 60 Since earth’s wide regions, heaven’s umneasur’... ...field suspend; War soon shall kindle, and great Ilion bend; Since vengeful goddesses confederate join To raze her walls, though built by hands divine.... ...he bright abodes, And speaks the mandate of the sire of gods. “What frenzy goddesses! what rage can move Celestial minds to tempt the wrath of Jove? D... ...lestial stalls; The chariot propp’d against the crystal walls, The pensive goddesses, abash’d, controll’d, Mix with the gods, and fill their seats of ...

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...cus, they say, was ever esteemed a man of the greatest sanctity of all the Greeks; and Cychreus, the Salaminian, was honored at Athens with divine wor... ...ow husbandry; and from this coin came the expression so frequent among the Greeks, of a thing being worth ten or a hundred oxen. After this he joined ... ...nstituted the games, in emulation of Hercules, being ambitious that as the Greeks, by that hero’s appoint- ment, celebrated the Olympian games to the ... ...ons nor fortunate in their events, which yet were never represented in the Greek plays. For he is said to have carried off Anaxo, a T roezenian, and, ... ...r of vouchers was first published, in its chief particu- lars, amongst the Greeks by Diocles of Peparethus, whom Fabius Pictor also follows in most po... ...ose of the island of Andros, he told them that he had brought with him two goddesses, Per- suasion and Force; and they answered him that they had also... ...Per- suasion and Force; and they answered him that they had also two great goddesses, which prohibited them from giving him any money, Poverty and Imp... ...n of Cimon, exhibited against Alcibiades, for his impious mock- ery of the goddesses, Ceres and Proserpine. The people were highly exasperated and inc... ...ias, of the township of the Scambonidae, has committed a crime against the goddesses Ceres and Proserpine, by representing in derision the holy myster...

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...te were moved with pity, and granted a pardon. The same story is told of a Greek lady, called Euphrasia, who thus nourished her father; and in Scotlan... ...d, that even the heathens saw and knew the glory of self-devotion; and the Greeks had two early instances so very beautiful that, though they cannot i... ...hem from the fable that has adhered to them; and, at any rate, the ancient Greeks believed them, and gathered strength and nobleness from dwelling on ... ... tragedies, and the noble poetry in which they were recounted by the great Greek dramatists has been preserved to our time. Alcestis was the wife of A... ... choice, and gives the veiled Alcestis back to him as the new bride. Later Greeks tried to explain the story by saying that Alcestis nursed her husban... ... Anstice. This beautiful grove was sacred to the Eumenides, or aveng- ing goddesses, and it was therefore a sanctuary where no foot might tread; but ...

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... little, and, secondly, only tell a little of what they know. As for those Greeks and Romans whom you have read of in “sheepskin,” were you to know re... ...ns of Europe. The Emperor Nicolas (a moral character, though following the Greek super- stition, and adored for his mildness and benevolence of dispos... ...ver the bricks and mortar rose pediments of statues, legs of urns, legs of goddesses, legs and bodies of goddesses, legs, bodies, and busts of goddess... ...sses, legs, bodies, and busts of goddesses. Finally, on the 13th December, goddesses complete. On the 14th they were painted marble-color; and the bas...

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...y for the Encour- agement of Murder; but, according to their own delicate [Greek: euphaemismos], it is styled—The Society of Con- noisseurs in Murder.... ...ose of “Fire—fire!” upon which all of us, master and disciples, Plato and [Greek: hoi peri ton Platona], rushed out, eager for the spectacle. The fire... ... Fifth Book, I think it is, of his Metaphysics) de- scribes what he calls [Greek: kleptaen teleion], i.e., a perfect thief; and, as to Mr. Howship, in... ... it morally. But suppose it 14 over and done, and that you can say of it,[Greek: T etelesai], or (in that adamantine molossus of Medea) [Greek: eirza... ...te most justly, and possibly with a view to my case, placed virtue in the [Greek: to meson] or middle point between two extremes. A golden mean is cer... ...ozart is known to have done, or Michael Angelo—you can die grandly, and as goddesses would die were goddesses mortal. If any distant world (which may ...

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... as must be indispensably sup posed for long manuscripts, among the early Greeks, was thus one of the points in Wolf’s case against the primitive int... ...p wrecked, seems to prove beyond a doubt, that the pronun ciation of the Greek language had undergone a considerable change. Now it is certainly dif... ...nal. “At what period,” continues Grote, “these poems, or indeed any other Greek poems, first began to be written, must be matter of conjecture, thoug... ... brings to our view the alterations brought about by two centuries, in the Greek language, the coined money, the habits of writing and reading, the de... ...r they thus afford us an insight into the anti historical character of the Greeks, enabling us to trace the subsequent forward march of the nation, an... ...ngth of age survey, By breed increase not, nor by death decay. T wo sister goddesses possess the plain, The constant guardian of the woolly train; Lam...

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...a banished man and a stranger at the head of a body of barbar- ians. Among Greek commanders, Eumenes of Cardia may be best compared with him; they wer... ...e greatest part of the Libyan tribes under his subjection, with an army of Greeks, raised out of the colonies of the Olbians and Myceneans placed here... .... 35 Plutarch’s Lives But when Craterus and Antipater, having subdued the Greeks, advanced into Asia, with intentions to quell the power of Perdiccas... ...ne had made versatile, he at last put his men in array, and encouraged the Greeks and barbarians; as for the phalanx and the Argyraspids, they encoura... ... man of them might ever come to Macedon, or so much as within sight of the Greek sea. 50 V olume Two COMP COMP COMP COMP COMPARISON OF SER ARISON OF ... ...they required, and for- swore the fact. And indeed he so little valued the goddesses, that he stayed but till the very festival of Proserpine, by whom...