Nikos Kazantzakis, from “Report to Greco”, tr. by P. A. Bien
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George Seferis, from Collected Poems; "Memory I" (tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard)
[Text ID: I whispered: memory hurts wherever you touch it,]
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Im reading the iliad for this first time and im going to die priam is out here like "who is that short, hairy man" and helens like "thats odysseus" and hes just like "damn thats right he was at my house"
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in honor of the absolute insanity that was the lloyd vs antigone poll over at @most-tragic-character-tournament
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the iliad as those bird memes (sorry for weird formatting at the end)
achilles:
patroclus:
helen:
diomedes:
hector:
odysseus:
andromache:
calchas:
paris:
bonus! clytemnestra:
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FIGHT!
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Alrighty class, just before we begin Book 22, I want to remind you it was not ‘based’ or ‘goated’ of Achilles to desecrate Hector’s corpse by dragging it through the dirt on the back of his chariot. The only ‘slay’ he ‘served’ was literally slaughtering half the Trojan army.
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George Seferis, from Collected Poems 1924-1955; "Stratis Thalassinos Among the Agapanthi"
Text ID: The first thing God made is love / then comes blood / and the thirst for blood
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Andromeda
Artist : Arthur Rackham
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Odysseus Elytis, tr. by Athan Anagnostopoulos, from Maria Nephele: A Poem in Two Voices; "The Poet's Song"
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“Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”
― Homer, The Iliad
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George Seferis, from Collected Poems; "Last Stop" (tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard)
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I relate to odysseus because i, too, take ten years to complete something that should be done in 8 months as well as weep every single night
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I was reading Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan last night and this quote really stood out to me:
“Thing can turn out differently, Apollo. That’s the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it’s going to be.” -Rachel Elizabeth Dare, page 346
I really felt that I related to this quote, and I’m not the kind of person that annotates books but I just wanted to come on here and share this quote with you all.
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ELEKTRA by Sophokles, tr. by Anne Carson
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