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3 days after my Vilnius talk on Achilles' Iliadic shield, it's the 170th anniversary of Melville's uber-Homeric novel Moby-Dick. The ultra-Achillean Captain Ahab's golden doubloon, nailed to his mast, is a direct response to the shield in the Iliad. But Gregory Peck was miscast!

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2021-11-14

Single combat was no novel concept for Alexander the Great's generals. Homeric precedents inspired them since childhood. 'Noble’ duels between figures like Hector and Achilles, Hector and Ajax or Diomedes and Aeneas motivated commanders to slay leading enemies by their own hand.

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2021-11-12

( || hector! he's my Favorite (tm) of the homeric universe and he'd be another huge rewrite. i think the fate version is fine. i would write my hector to be more in-line with the homeric version (more reckless, the idea of glory/arete, etc.)

also i would put more of the +

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2021-11-05

The most famous to the greatest of the world has ever known is the Homeric Hymn to This prayer-hymn, which tells the central story of the goddess Demeter...https://t.co/FdhvEJ4f5d

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2021-10-29

The most famous to the greatest of the world has ever known is the Homeric Hymn to This prayer-hymn, which tells the central story of the goddess Demeter...https://t.co/FdhvEJ4f5d

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2021-10-18

The most famous to the greatest of the world has ever known is the Homeric Hymn to This prayer-hymn, which tells the central story of the goddess Demeter...https://t.co/FdhvEJ4f5d

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2021-10-14

4)Design sheets for Homeric, Olivia and Elizabeth

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2021-10-04

Idiots who say, "Homeric religion is TRAGIC bro, they saw themselves as playthings of alien forces bro" don't understand that nothing changed but philosophic elaboration until "Neo"Platonic religion. Difference is reacting to it like the guy on the left vs the guy on the right.

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2021-09-25

The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor

A famous sailor named Sinbad tells the stories of his Homeric travels to a poor porter. The tales include shipwrecks, ferocious beasts, the Old Man of the Sea, and other dangers.

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2021-08-31

Aidoneus,the Ruler of Many,among the deathless gods, own brother born of the same stock: for honor,he has that third share which he received when division was made at the first,and is appointed lord those among whom he dwells.
Homeric Hymn to Demeter paracit.

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2021-06-23

Mathematics, Psychedelics, Cybernetics.

Exploring the Mandelbrot Set is like a journey through a forest landscape, a process of discovery of new forms and species, an infinite Homeric odyssey for the 21st century. [Visualization by ]

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2021-04-28

A Homeric Hymn to Hermes describes the birth of Apollo & his theft of that god's sacred cattle. 🐄 Hermes, a god "of many shifts", is associated with cunning & thievery, but he's also a bringer of dreams, invented the lyre, as well as racing & wrestling.

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2021-01-26

Tsukki as Helen from Homeric epic fic
-i havn’t been able to participate the week but wanted to draw Tsukki for his day. Still I had no time to draw him for real so i quickly draw him from the sketch I had.

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2020-09-26

"I begin to sing of Demeter, the holy goddess with the beautiful hair. And her daughter Persephone too. The one with the delicate ankles, whom Hades seized." (Homeric Hymn to Demeter)

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2020-09-21

My of Dionysos from April and August. Literary influences: the Homeric Hymns to Dionysos and Euripides' Bacchae.

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2020-09-10

Hermes went to the abodes of the deathless gods, carrying his son. Then all the immortals were glad in heart and Bakkheios Dionysos in especial; and they called the boy Pan [all] because he delighted all their hearts. - Homeric Hymn

Pan
Chamo San

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2020-03-28

Similarities between Homeric Epics and Gilgamesh Epic:
- Gilgamesh and Enkidu fight the giant Humbaba
- Odysseus and his companions fight the giant Cyclops

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2020-02-02

Next stop: Pherai, for a deep dive into the particulars of Late Classical Thessalian politics. Also the site of the Homerically cited Hyperian Fountain, which is now defunct, but was vibrantly captured in this 1821 illustration by Dodwell

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2020-01-24

Hermes went to the abodes of the deathless gods, carrying his son. Then all the immortals were glad in heart and Bakkheios Dionysos in especial; and they called the boy Pan [all] because he delighted all their hearts. -Homeric Hymn

Pan
Chamo San

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2019-11-23

Off to talk Homeric females to Classical Civilisation students at La Sainte Union School in Hampstead. Greek island idylls just the thing for a cold November day.

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2019-11-13