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In earlier antiquity, no doubt, the multiple and not necessarily consistent aspects of the Greek character found little difficulty in embracing spiritually,…
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It is perhaps not surprising, amid the general leveling of individual aspirations in the growing megalopolis that it was the "Odyssey", not…
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The basic story of "The Iliad" seems not even very servicable, for it has few parallels anywhere.
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To reveal death all at once would be to see it absolute, and not as the veiled end of the temporal process;…
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Achilles' absolute, like every heroic absolute, finds its telos or fulfillment, not in dislocating the world as it is, but in self-destruction.
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To the semidivine hero, the mere fact of ruling over more men does not constitute greatness, and as for glory from Zeus,…
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Odysseus sees reality as the situation or problem before him; Achilles sees it as something in himself, and the problem is to…
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The Wrath of Achilles had probably been an epic subject for generations when Homer found it, and the germ of its meaning,…
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Personal integrity in Achilles achieves the form and authority of immanent divinity, with its inviolable, lonely singleness, half repellent because of its…
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The fact that Achilles is the one to take the initiative (in the Chryse affair) is in itself significant: he feels responsiblity…
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Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.
— Horace
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The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia; he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out of weakness.
— Christa Wolf
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I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon,
— Heinrich Schliemann
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When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary…
— James Joyce
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The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the…
— Aleister Crowley
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The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.
— James Lee Burke
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Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the…
— Homer
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After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who…
— Umberto Eco
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SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they…
— Ambrose Bierce
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To the semidivine hero, the mere fact of ruling over more men does not constitute greatness, and as for glory from Zeus,…
— Cedric H Whitman
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