it was vividly chthonic (from the Greek word for earth, chthō n, which according to the mythological view gave birth to these monsters). During the period of the primitive communal system, the mythological religious conceptions of the ancient Greeks were dominated by totemistic, fetishistic. ...
For seven nights, for seven days in torture, overwhelmed in agony, I stretched my arms to heaven and called Lucina [Eileithyia] and the Nixi (Gods of Birth). I called and called. She came, indeed, but bribed beforehand, ready to donate my life to spiteful Juno [Hera]. On that altar...
Word Origin:Derived from πάσχω (paschō), meaning "to suffer" or "to experience." Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries:While there is no direct Hebrew equivalent for "pathéma," the concept of suffering is present in words like עָנִי (ani, Strong's H6040) meaning "a...
"[Lyssa, daimona of madness, stalks Herakles (Heracles) :] ‘The thunderbolt with blast of agony shall be like the headlong rush I will make into the breast of Herakles; through his roof will I burst my way and swoop upon his house,after first slaying his children; nor shall their mur...
…way, the most famous of Greek tragedies,Oedipus the Kingby Sophocles, can be seen as a formalistic representation of human sacrifice. Oedipus becomes a dramatic embodiment of guilt; his blinding and agony are necessary for the good of all Thebes, because it was by killing his father and ...
The bus chugs past the empty warehouses and car parks, past the closed cafes, past the closed ticket booths. The man next to me asks if the bus ticket is free and I stutter some words that might not make sense, so I say sorry to him. To myself, for every word I haven’t yet ...
Polymestor crawls out from the tent, blinded and in agony, and reduced to the level of an animal. He curses Hecuba and the Trojan woman, threatening savage and bloody retribution. Agamemnon is summoned to judge Polymestor and Hecuba. Polymestor feigns many excuses for the murder of Polydorus...
–Geronda ["geronda" is the Greek word for Elder- Ed], the final diagnosis has been made. Your tumor is cancerous and it’s aggressive. –Bring me a handkerchief so that I may dance to the song: “I bid farewell to you, O poor world!” I have never danced in my life, but...
characters to a series of torture for mere entertainment, this paper contends that although Wharton’s works do not seek transcendence in an unmixed optimism, they are not tableaux of gratuitous pain, but exalted and contagious in their mixed fire of agony and ecstasy as disclosed by the ...
(figuratively) anguish:--agony. 75 agwnizomaiagonizomaiag-o-nid'-zom-ahee from agwn - agon 73; to struggle, literally (to compete for a prize), figuratively (to contend with an adversary), or genitive case (to endeavor to accomplish something):--fight, labor fervently, strive. 76 Adam...