Homer, Odyssey 10. 1 ff (trans. Shewring) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) : "[Odysseus tells the tale of his wanderings :] We came to the Aiolian (Aeolian) island (nesos Aiolios); here lived Aiolos (Aeolus) Hippotades (son of Hippotas); the deathless gods counted him their friend. ...
Analyzes the figure of Odysseus in the Odyssey. Argues that the protagonist develops as a human being over the course of the poem, eventually becoming “a hero with a special moral authority.” Yet the new, more “philosophical” Odysseus never fully replaces the “older, wilier” character....
Below you can listen toDavid Creese, a classicist from the University of Newcastle, playing “an ancient Greek song taken from stone inscriptions constructed on an eight-string ‘canon’ (a zither-like instrument) with movable b...
ARTEMIS was the Olympian goddess of hunting, the wilderness and wild animals. She was also a goddess of childbirth, and the protectress of the girl child up to the age of marriage--her twin brother Apollon was similarly the protector of the boy child. Together the two gods were also bring...
Some Translations The Choephoroe of Aeschylus, translated into English rhyming verse by Gilbert Murray; Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Ewmenides, rendered into English verse by G. M. Cookson; The Birds of Aristophanes, as arranged for performance in the original Greek at Cambridge, translated...
Through many generations the memory of the heroic age and the feats performed by their ancestors in their lost homeland was preserved and handed down to the following ages, only later to be codified by Homer in the Iliad and the Odyssey. Felice Vinci offers a key to open many doors that ...
THE NEW MAP OF LIFE: TRANSFORMING THE COURSE OF LONG LIVES THROUGH IMPACT-DRIVEN RESEARCH The global rise in life expectancy and the emergence of societies that are more age-diverse than ever before in human history call for a re-design of the l... Shavit Yochai,Carstensen Laura - Innovatio...
description of the present and the most recent past, and thus have rather the character of contemporary records; the latter cover the whole history of the world as known to the Middle Ages. The former are therefore the more valuable for political history; the latter for the history of ...
Of all the other sisters of the sea he gave me to a mortal, to Peleus, Aiakos' (Aeacus') son, and I had to endure mortal marriage though much against my will. And now he, broken by mournful old age, lies away in his halls. Yet I have other troubles. For since he has given ...
of these early studies. They would be regarded as completed when he attained the age of eighteen, and took rank among the "ephebi" or "eirenes" of his native city. Under ordinary circumstances a Greek of this age began at once his duties as a citizen, and found the excitement of ...