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" right high indeed is his city; but stateless the man who dares to dwell with dishonor. Not by my fire, never to share my thoughts, who does these things. "
The Science Matrix: The Journey, Travails, Triumphs
by Frederick Seitz - 1998 - 146 pages
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The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the ...

Hans Jonas - Philosophy - 1984 - 267 pages
...drive him one time or another to well or ill. When he honors the laws of the land and the gods' sworn right high indeed is his city; but stateless the man who dares to do what is shameful. 1. Man and Nature [Lines 335-370] This awestruck homage to man's powers tells...
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Reading Greek Tragedy

Simon Goldhill - Drama - 1986 - 322 pages
...gods' sworn right high indeed is his city; but cityless the man who dares to dwell with dishonour. Not by my fire, never to share my thoughts, who does these things. The upholding of the laws and the justice of the gods constitutes the man 'with high city'. The phrase...
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Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians

Justina Gregory - Drama - 1997 - 228 pages
...drive him one time or another to well or ill. When he honors the laws of the land and the gods' sworn right high indeed is his city; but stateless the man...Not by my fire, never to share my thoughts, who does those things. 22 Apollo opens the Alcestis by apostrophizing the palace of Admetus and recounting the...
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Critical Theory and Performance

Janelle G. Reinelt, Joseph R. Roach - Drama - 1992 - 468 pages
...drive him one time or another to well or ill. When he honors the laws of the land and the gods' sworn right high indeed is his city; but stateless the man...never to share my thoughts, who does these things. (170-71) Lacan, who translates directly from the Greek, also cites the French translation of Robert...
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The Corporate Board: Confronting the Paradoxes

Ada Demb, F.-Friedrich Neubauer - Business & Economics - 1992 - 225 pages
...drive him one time or another to well or ill. When he honors the laws of the land and the gods' sworn right high indeed is his city; but stateless the man who dares to do what is shameful. The Time Lag and the Knowledge Gap. Our ability to predict the impact of our actions...
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Legal Modernism

David Luban - Law - 1997 - 424 pages
...but nothing walks stranger than man. . . . When he honors the laws of the land and the gods' sworn right high indeed is his city; but stateless the man...never to share my thoughts, who does these things." 105 It is the moment of supreme irony in the drama. We hear it through Creon's ears as a denunciation...
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In Search of the Classic: Reconsidering the Greco-Roman Tradition, Homer to ...

Steven Shankman - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 360 pages
...right high indeed Is his city; but stateless (ö¿rtoXtçj the man who dares do that which is not good. Not by my fire, never to share my thoughts, who does these things. 8 (332—75) “Many the wonders E&ival, but nothing is stranger br more wonderful, brtvótrQov] than...
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Time, Conflict, and Human Values

Julius Thomas Fraser - Philosophy - 1999 - 330 pages
...drive him one time or another to well or ill. When he honors the laws of the land and the gods' sworn right high indeed is his city; but stateless the man...dishonor. Not by my fire, never to share my thoughts. •2 With the help of evolutionary biology and psychology, this chapter offers a sketch of the strange...
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The Man Without Content

Giorgio Agamben - Philosophy - 1999 - 148 pages
...to happiness as easily as to ruin, and concludes with a wish that recalls the Platonic ban on poets: "Not by my fire, / never to share my thoughts, who does these things." 4 Edgar Wind has observed that the reason why Plato's statement is so surprising to us is that art...
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Heidegger's Polemos: From Being to Politics

Gregory Fried - Philosophy - 2008 - 318 pages
...drive him one time or another to well or ill. When he honors the laws of the land and the gods' sworn right high indeed is his city; but stateless the man who dares dwell with dishonor. Not by my fire, never to share my thoughts, who does these things. 6 Heidegger...
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