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felixinclusis:
matteoberton: A discarded test cover for a...
October 28, 2016
c86:
Taken from The Wooden Horse: The Legend of the Fall of...
c86:
Taken from The Wooden Horse: The Legend of the Fall of Troy and the Wanderings of Odysseus
After Homer and other sources
Retold by Franz Fühmann, 1968
Linocuts by Eberhard and Elfriede Binder
via Book Graphics
October 27, 2016
"And there, all in their order, are the sources and ends of gloomy earth and misty Tartarus and the..."
And there, all in their order, are the sources and ends of gloomy earth and misty Tartarus and the unfruitful sea and starry heaven, loathsome and dank, which even the gods abhor.
It is a great gulf, and if once a man were within the gates, he would not reach the floor until a whole year had reached its end, but cruel blast upon blast would carry him this way and that. And this marvel is awful even to the deathless gods.
(ll. 744-757) There stands the awful home of murky Night wrapped in dark clouds. In front of it the son of Iapetus stands immovably upholding the wide heaven upon his head and unwearying hands, where Night and Day draw near and greet one another as they pass the great threshold of bronze: and while the one is about to go down into the house, the other comes out at the door.
And the house never holds them both within; but always one is without the house passing over the earth, while the other stays at home and waits until the time for her journeying come; and the one holds all-seeing light for them on earth, but the other holds in her arms Sleep the brother of Death, even evil Night, wrapped in a vaporous cloud.
(ll. 758-766) And there the children of dark Night have their dwellings, Sleep and Death, awful gods. The glowing Sun never looks upon them with his beams, neither as he goes up into heaven, nor as he comes down from heaven. And the former of them roams peacefully over the earth and the sea’s broad back and is kindly to men; but the other has a heart of iron, and his spirit within him is pitiless as bronze: whomsoever of men he has once seized he holds fast: and he is hateful even to the deathless gods.
(ll. 767-774) There, in front, stand the echoing halls of the god of the lower-world, strong Hades, and of awful Persephone. A fearful hound guards the house in front, pitiless, and he has a cruel trick. On those who go in he fawns with his tail and both is ears, but suffers them not to go out back again, but keeps watch and devours whomsoever he catches going out of the gates of strong Hades and awful Persephone.
(ll. 775-806) And there dwells the goddess loathed by the deathless gods, terrible Styx, eldest daughter of back-flowing Ocean. She lives apart from the gods in her glorious house vaulted over with great rocks and propped up to heaven all round with silver pillars. Rarely does the daughter of Thaumas, swift- footed Iris, come to her with a message over the sea’s wide back.
”- Hesiod, The Theogony, description of Tartarus, Greek mythology’s version of Hell (via theancientworld) (via asphodelonref)
October 26, 2016
nf-photo:
Tenderness does not have the shape of gorgeous roses....
Tenderness does not have the shape of gorgeous roses. It’s more modest.
© 2016 Nozomu F.
October 25, 2016
October 24, 2016
persephoneandthepomegranates:
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I finally decided...
I finally decided to get paper copies and stop reading off of my phone. Plus they smell like new books
