Big Day For The EoG Fandom

Big Day For The EoG Fandom

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7 months ago

everyone loves Predynastic Egyptian Terracotta Bowl with Human Feet. shout-out to a real one

Everyone Loves Predynastic Egyptian Terracotta Bowl With Human Feet. Shout-out To A Real One
7 months ago

In the club

8 months ago
Skull Of St. Thomas Aquinas Being Transported To Fossanova Abbey. Photograph By Daniel Ibanez, 2024

Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey. Photograph by Daniel Ibanez, 2024

7 months ago

me before making yet another unintelligible post about my current hyperfixations

Me Before Making Yet Another Unintelligible Post About My Current Hyperfixations
1 year ago
"Wretchedly perish, then," said Cicero,

wretchedly perish then said cicero wednesday

1 year ago

ranking sophocles plays in order of how real ghosts are in them

1 year ago
Revisiting Crassus, Clodius, And The Bona Dea Scandal! But This Time With A New Composition And A Limited
Revisiting Crassus, Clodius, And The Bona Dea Scandal! But This Time With A New Composition And A Limited

revisiting crassus, clodius, and the bona dea scandal! but this time with a new composition and a limited color palette

originally when I drew the first version of this idea, it was back when I thought that crassus would be a week long fixation at most (lmao), and instead he just. took up permanent residence in my mind. it seemed like a fun thing to go back to an earlier idea and see what changed now that I've spent a lot more time with everyone involved in this era!

also the way these two interlocked politically. I am. biting into it.

Revisiting Crassus, Clodius, And The Bona Dea Scandal! But This Time With A New Composition And A Limited

The Defeat of Rome: Crassus, Carrhae and the Invasion of the East, Gareth C. Sampson

Revisiting Crassus, Clodius, And The Bona Dea Scandal! But This Time With A New Composition And A Limited

Crassus: the First Tycoon, Peter Stothard

Revisiting Crassus, Clodius, And The Bona Dea Scandal! But This Time With A New Composition And A Limited

Crassus: A Political Biography, B. A. Marshall

Revisiting Crassus, Clodius, And The Bona Dea Scandal! But This Time With A New Composition And A Limited
Revisiting Crassus, Clodius, And The Bona Dea Scandal! But This Time With A New Composition And A Limited

Crassus, Clodius, and Curio in the Year 59 B.C., Robert J Rowland, Jr.

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7 months ago
Achilles is thus the one Homeric hero who does not accept the common language, and feels that it does not correspond to reality. But what is characteristic of the Iliad, and makes it unique as a tragedy, is that this otherness of Achilles is nowhere stated in clear and precise terms. Achilles can only say, "There was, after all, no grace in it," or ask questions that cannot really be answered: "But why should the Argives be fighting against the Trojans?" or make demands that can never be satisfied: ".. . until he pays back all my heart-rending grief.''l2 Homer in fact, has no language, no terms, in which to express this kind of basic disillusionment with society and the external world. The reason lies in the nature of epic verse. The poet does not make a language of his own; he draws from a common store of poetic diction. This store is a product of bards and a reflection of society: for epic song had a clear social function.'3 Neither Homer, then, in his own person as narrator, nor the characters he drama- tizes, can speak any language other than the one which reflects the assumptions of heroic society, those assumptions so beautifully and so serenely enunciated by Sarpedon in book 12. Achilles has no language with which to express his disillusion- ment. Yet he expresses it, and in a remarkable way. He does it by misusing the language he disposes of. He asks questions that cannot be answered and makes demands that cannot be met. He uses conventional expressions where we least expect him to, as when
he speaks to Patroclus in book 16 of a hope of being offered material gifts by the Greeks, when we know that he has been offered these gifts and that they are meaningless to him; or as when he says that he has won great glory by slaying Hector, when we know that he is really fighting to avenge his comrade, and that he sees no value in the glory that society can confer.'4 All this is done with wonderful subtlety: most readers feel it when they read the Iliad; few under- stand how the poet is doing it. It is not a sign of artistic weakness: Homer profits by not availing himself of the intellectual terminol - ogy of the 5th century. Achilles' tragedy, his final isolation, is that he can in no sense, including that of language (unlike, say, Hamlet), leave the society which has become alien to him. And Homer uses the epic speech a long poetic tradition gave him to transcend the limits of that speech.

adam parry, the language of achilles


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7 months ago
I Think About This Roman Statue Of Odysseus Escaping Polyphemus' Cave Beneath A Ram Often

i think about this roman statue of odysseus escaping polyphemus' cave beneath a ram often


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