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Heracles' heroic world and Deianeira's warmth and tenderness are mutually exclusive. Sophocles seeks not to vindicate the one against the other, but to dramatize the tragedy of their irreconcilability and their mutual destructiveness.
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Theseus: What is the crime for which you must pay by death?
Phaedra: My life.
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Praise me not too much,
Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks
Who know me.
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Lothaire Konstantin Daciano, Sovereign of Dacia, the Realm of Blood and Mist.
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CHAPTER TWO In Which Inventors Have Powerful Dimples Imogene
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The myth is not my own; I have it from my mother. Euripides
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hydra of revolution,
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Philo of Alexandria,
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primicerius? He was young, it was
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These daughters of Zeus and Themis were: Eirene: The personification of peace Eunomia: The personification of law and order Dike: The personification of justice
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Exodia Obliterate!
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How miraculous it was, noted Diogenes, that whenever one felt that sort of urge, one could readily masturbate. But conversely how disheartening that one could not simply rub one's stomach when hungry.
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Highly secretive, L'Occhio di Dio is an elite group of assassins with only one goal - the total destruction of all Prodigium.
"Well, that's nice," I murmured to myself.
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From Spiritual Directions of Diadochus of Photiki
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lagophthalmos - a
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I should also mention, with the vestigial pang of a once flat-chested girl, Desdemona's voluptuous figure.
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So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love.
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Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead.
Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief
Shore his old thread in twain.
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Our Euripides the human,
With his droppings of warm tears,
and his touchings of things common
Till they rose to meet the spheres.
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I assume he is the one unfortunate enough to be called Ptolemus.
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[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day
to you, thief of fire, I speak.
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Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, written
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What fools these mortals be. (Acheron)
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(whose initials were probably OCTAVIAN).
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Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. "Thy words," said he, "Aristodemus, smell of the apron.
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Prince Achilles! Aristos Achaion! As
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Genghises. Large, angry Genghises.
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Thrasyllus the Cynic begged a drachm of Antigonus. "That," said he, "is too little for a king to give." "Why, then," said the other, "give me a talent." "And that," said he, "is too much for a Cynic (or, for a dog) to receive.
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Polybius more than 150 years earlier,
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Kronos took the child in his arms and saw right away that Demeter was another goddess. She glowed with an aura even more powerful than Hestia's. She was trouble with a capital tau.
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Lyra and Caelum: the two replicas with names plucked straight from the stars.
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Are we all ready? (Deimos) (Letting out a blood-chilling war cry, he and the rest of the Dolophoni ran through the caverns.) I hate their dramatics ... and their decibel level. (M'Adoc)
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Carpe diem."

(Odes: I.11)
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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things, ...
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To pile Pelion upon Olympus.
[Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]
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Food of Acheron. (Grave.)
[Lat., Pabulum Acheruntis.]
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Hello, Goddess."- Roman Arceneaux
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There are some things that sorry can't fix. - Acheron Parthenopaeus
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I will keep an eye on Diatribe, with her big talk and heroic gestures, to see with what force she will bring down my Achilles, when hitherto she has never managed to hit a common soldier, not even a Thersites, but she has shot her miserable self to pieces with her own weapons.
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The famous Apollonius being very early at Vespasian's gate, and finding him stirring, from thence conjectured that he was worthy to govern an empire, and said to his companion, This man surely will be emperor; he is so early.
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This was how Dinocrates, recommended only by his good looks and dignified carriage, came to be so famous. But as for me, Emperor, nature has not given me stature, age has marred my face, and my strength is impaired by ill health.
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Yep, she was a disastrophe. Pathetic.
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LYSISTRATA May gentle Love and the sweet Cyprian Queen shower seductive charms on our bosoms and all our person. If only we may stir so amorous a feeling among the men that they stand firm as sticks, we shall indeed deserve the name of peace-makers among the Greeks.
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La heradera del dia destruida.
(The heiress of the destroyed day.)
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The rare derpicus man is know to live near the himalayas, in a cave made purely of dead weevils. His native tounge is unknown, but what I've translated contains a grat amount of the words, "pootis, derp, poop, and nnnnyyyyaaaaannnn!
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Precipitous creature,' Kruppe muttered, reaching for the mug of wine the man had left behind. 'Ah, look at this,' he said, frowning up at Crokus, 'nigh two-thirds full. A potential waste!' Kruppe drank it down in one swift gulp, then sighed. 'Said potential averted, Dessembrae be praised.
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With reason did the Athenians adjudge Diagoras guilty of atheism, in that he not only divulged the Orphic doctrine, and published the mysteries of Eleusis and of the Cabiri, and chopped up the wooden statue of Hercules to boil his turnips, but openly declared that there were no gods at all.
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Democritus's work on the void was revolutionary.
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Raveand Rhamnusia, Goddes of Dispyte,' said Lymond acidly. 'I am trying to get you home, vide the shiten shepherd and the clene shepe, with your woolly chops spotless. The only drawback to date is that the bloody sheep is going to have to carry the shepherd, so far as I can see.
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What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
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THE SHOULDER OF ATHOS, THE BALDRIC OF PORTHOS AND THE HANDKERCHIEF OF ARAMIS
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Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.
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The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to a ballad, from a ballad to an ode, from an ode to a cantata, and from a cantata to a dithyramb. A husband who begins with the dithyramb is a fool.
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Of what am I guilty," once exclaimed Antisthenes, "that I should be praised?
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ANTIGONUS If it prove She's otherwise, I'll keep my stables where I lodge my wife; I'll go in couples with her; Than when I feel and see her no further trust her; For every inch of woman in the world, Ay, every dram of woman's flesh, is false, If she be.
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In the year 540 B.C. or thereabouts, on the island of Samos, there came to power a tyrant named Polycrates. He seems to have started as a caterer and then gone on to international piracy.
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In that prehistoric time, before the Internet, before information floated in the ozone, I was a soccer novice who had never heard of Socrates until somebody pointed him out - swarthy, shaggy, tall, slender, mysterious.
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Socrates (770-399 B.C.[E.]) is possibly the most enigmatic figure in the entire history of philosophy. He never wrote a single line. Yet he is one of the philosophers who has had the greatest influence on European thought, not least because of the dramatic manner of his death.
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Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.
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In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and hope. And Odysseus finds him in an act emblematic of the best and most responsible kind of agriculture: an old man caring for a young tree. (pg. 123, The Body and the Earth)
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There is a God, and his name is Aristophanes.
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Since my high school years, I have been interested in history, especially in Roman history, a topic on which I have read rather extensively. The Latin that goes with this kind of interest proved useful when I had to generate a few terms and names for cell biology.
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I think Illium can take care of himself."
"Not if he keeps flirting with you."
A fine, almost elegant tendril of heat, champagne and sunshine, decadence in the light.
"Raphael's not the sharing kind.
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Silenus or Nymphs and
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At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
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The only Aniimal with 2 ii's!
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Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit.
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Illium was a stunning sight against the lightening sky, his wings sweeping through the air with a grace that made him seem a half-forgotten dream. When he landed in the courtyard, his wings flaring out for an instant, he was at once very much a man, physical and sexual, and an unattainable fantasy.
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Imitations of Horace. Of two evils I have chose the least.
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Istam terra de fossam premat,
gravisque terrus impio capiti incubet!
(As for her, let her be buried deep in earth,
and heavy may the soil lie on her unholy head.)
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Alex looks around at Heph, at Diodotus, at handsome Telekles and round-faced Phrixos,
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Icarus did not survive his fall. We can only hope Daedalus fares better.
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Dubium sapientiae initium. (Doubt is the origin of wisdom.)
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I know what the Greeks do not know, incertitude.
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The history of Rome presents various men of greater genius than Scipio Aemilianus, but none equalling him in moral purity, in the utter absence of political selfishness, in generous love of his country, and none, perhaps, to whom destiny has assigned a more tragic part.
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Omnia exeunt in mysterium. (All things end in mystery).
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Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?
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Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.
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The word "dis-aster," in fact, means "bad star."
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And I think I am about to mistake you for a volume of Ptolemy." He drew her face closer to his. "Make that Ovid," he said. His lips brushed lightly against hers. "Make that Ars Amatoria.
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One rational voice is dumb: over a grave
The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved.
Sad is Eros, builder of cities,
And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.
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I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent
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I do idiosyncratic dramedies.
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In Euripedes's The Bacchae...Dionysus dispenses food, drink and comfort, and inspires communal energy, song and dance; he is rapture and rage, illumination and blindness.
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ODYSSEUS I cannot recommend a rigid spirit.
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Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.
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So far has Athens left the rest of mankind behind in thought and expression that her pupils have become the teachers of the world, and she has made the name of Hellas distinctive no longer of race but of intellect, and the title of Hellene a badge of education rather than of common descent.
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Acheron. When it absolutely, positively must be destroyed overnight.
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Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.
(Mountains are in labour, a ridiculous mouse will be born)
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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The will was of Zeus, the hand of Hephaestus.
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Come, my Lady Dangerous, your Daimons await. (Valerius)
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PERCY JACKSON AND THE GREEK HEROES
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A hopeless exile from his native home, From death alone exempt - but cease to mourn; Let all combine to achieve his wish'd return; Neptune atoned, his wrath shall now refrain, Or thwart the synod of the gods in vain.
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ceasing. 1 THESSALONIANS
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Ex Scientia, Tridens
(From knowledge, seapower)
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ZEUS SUX and TYPHOEUS WUZ HERE.
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voluptuous sluggard,
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Entrusting her memory to the wind, to the embrace of the silent sentinel trees and to the care of the faithful stars, her namesake, pure and everlasting, the uncontained universe contained in her: Cassiopeia.