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Re: Re: Bravo...well written and I love the rich language here too. that Cyclops
and I love reading your work.....I am a true fan.
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Kabu
on August 15, 2012 at 8:26 AM
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Re: Bravo...well written and I love the rich language here too. that Cyclops
Thanks, Kabu. Homer really enriches the stories of his bad boy, Ulysses. Boning up for the Cyclops episode, I e-mailed a rabbi scholar who gave me this fascinating tidbit: the word for "Noman" in Greek is "me-tis" (pronounced may-tees) which, taken as a single word, means "no one", but - get this! -as one word means "cunning!"
The closer you look at the stories, the better they get! I love working with them!
posted by
2902
on August 14, 2012 at 7:22 PM
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Re: Odysseus should have silently left
Karma? The worst! For one thing, his voice gave the Cyclops something to aim at, and I think the Odyssey says the splash almost carried his ship back to the Cyclops' shore! For another, gods in those days weren't necessarily omniscient, so Ulysses might have gotten off scot-free as "Noman". But he gave all that information about himself - name, kingdom, destination -which probably made it easier for Poseidon to track and punish him. The Ulysses Homer paints has a honking huge ego that sometimes gets the better of him.He couldn't resist "signing his artwork."
posted by
2902
on August 14, 2012 at 7:08 PM
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Bravo...well written and I love the rich language here too. that Cyclops
surely got his deserts. I can see that spear piercing that one ghastly eye and I applaud.....from a great distance mind you!!!!!1
posted by
Kabu
on August 14, 2012 at 2:23 PM
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Odysseus should have silently left
rubbing it in is bad karma.
posted by
cpklapper
on August 14, 2012 at 11:17 AM
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Odysseus should have silently left
rubbing it in is bad karma.
posted by
cpklapper
on August 14, 2012 at 11:14 AM
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Annicita
Glad you like it. You're about an hour or so plane ride from where all this is supposed to have happened.
posted by
2902
on August 14, 2012 at 9:15 AM
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Re: Re:Lion, thank you for the good words. Ulysses is such a rich and
oops - fascinating character that I keep discovering angles even as I'm writing and referring back to Edith Hamilton's Mythology!
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2902
on August 14, 2012 at 9:12 AM
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Re:Lion, thank you for the good words. Ulysses is such a rich and
posted by
2902
on August 14, 2012 at 9:08 AM
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Re: Re:You really saw a MOVIE about this stuff , you who claim not to have
oops - gone to the flicks in years? And, druid that you are, you got no training in theogony? You can be excused for the recipe. I tried it once and count myself lucky to be here to talk about it.
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2902
on August 14, 2012 at 9:07 AM
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Re:You really saw a MOVIE about this stuff , you who claim not to have
posted by
2902
on August 14, 2012 at 8:53 AM
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Very good Bob and I have actually heard of some of these characters so I know that you are not making it up, I seem to remember a film about this this as well. We were 
not taught theogany or how to make a steak and kidney pudding.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 14, 2012 at 6:52 AM
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great read....
posted by
Annicita
on August 14, 2012 at 6:03 AM
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I love that you are able to preserve the story to perfection, inject real emotion and still keep the poetic form - that's akin to juggling kittens in it's complexity and I salute you
posted by
lionreign
on August 14, 2012 at 3:08 AM
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