 | Hans Jonas - Philosophy - 1984 - 267 pages
...the famous Chorus from Sophocles' Antigone. Many the wonders but nothing more wondrous than man. This thing crosses the sea in the winter's storm, making...roaring waves. And she, the greatest of gods, the Earth — deathless she is, and unwearied — he wears her away as the ploughs go up and down from year to... | |
 | Alison M. Jaggar, Susan Bordo - Philosophy - 1989 - 392 pages
...than by the Chorus in Sophocles' Antigone: Many the wonders but nothing more wondrous than man. This thing crosses the sea in the winter's storm, making...roaring waves. And she, the greatest of gods, the Earth — deathless she is, and unwearies — he wears her away as the ploughs go up and down from year to... | |
 | Arlene W. Saxonhouse - History - 1995 - 276 pages
...wondrous things [deina}, but none walks the earth more wondrous [deinoteron] than man [anthropou]. This thing crosses the sea in the winter's storm, making...wild beast tribes and the salty brood of the sea, 36. Eg, 243; 323; 408; 690; 1091; 1097. Nussbaum (1986:52) suggests the French "formidable" as a more... | |
 | Ada Demb, F.-Friedrich Neubauer - Business & Economics - 1992 - 225 pages
...the famous chorus from Sophocles' Antigone: Many the wonders but nothing more wondrous than man. This thing crosses the sea in the winter's storm making...roaring waves. And she, the greatest of gods, the Earth — deathless she is, and unwearied — he wears her away as the ploughs go up and down from year to... | |
 | David Luban - Law - 1997 - 424 pages
...attitude is the famous chorus of Antigone: Many the wonders but nothing walks stranger than man. . . . And she, the greatest of gods, the earth — ageless...and down from year to year and his mules turn up the soil.140 In the Olympian creation myth, Gaia, the Earth, is the mother of all things. Thus agricultural... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Livingstone - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 428 pages
...sometimes referred to as 'the ode to man'. 'Many the wonders, but nothing walks stranger than man. This thing crosses the sea in the winter's storm, making his path through the roaring waves. ... He controls with craft the beasts of the open air, walkers on hills. The horse with his shaggy... | |
 | J. Peter Euben - Philosophy - 1997 - 287 pages
...languages of politics. Many the wonders [deina] but none is more wondrous [deinoteron] than man. He crosses the sea in the winter's storm making his path through the roaring waves. It is the Earth, the oldest of gods ageless and unwearied that he wears away as the ploughs go up and... | |
 | Ina Praetorius - Philosophy - 1998 - 190 pages
...violation of nature for one's own security: Many the wonders but nothing more wondrous than man This thing crosses the sea in the winter's storm, making...roaring waves. And she, the greatest of gods, the Earthdeathless she is, and unwearied— he wears her away as the ploughs go up and down from year to... | |
 | Peter J. Steinberger - Political Science - 2000 - 642 pages
...a mighty debt of thanks. ti'reon enters the palace, ¡he Guard ¡eaves by the way he came.) CHORUS: Many the wonders but nothing walks stranger than man....ageless she is, and unwearied — he wears her away 340 as the ploughs go up and down from year to year and his mules turn up the soil. Gay nations of... | |
 | Catherine M. Roach - Philosophy - 2003 - 241 pages
...takingl. A famous chorus from Sophocles' play Antigone (c. 441 BCl celebrates man's conquest of nature: And she, the greatest of gods, the Earth — ageless...from year to year and his mules turn up the soil. This example highlights the ancient identification of the female and the plowed earth. The identification... | |
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Many the wonders but nothing walks stranger than man. This thing crosses the sea in the winter's storm, making his path through the roaring waves. And she, the greatest of gods, the earth — ageless she is, and unwearied — he wears her away as the... 
