not I was the cause of this act, but Zeus and my portion and the Erinys who walks in darkness: they it was who in the assembly put wild ate in my understanding, on that day when I arbitrarily took Achilles The Greeks and the Irrational - Page 3by Eric R. Dodds - 2023 - 336 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| C. Fred Alford - Drama - 1992 - 236 pages
...compensated himself for the loss of his mistress by robbing Achilles of his. "Not I," he states afterwards, "was the cause of this act, but Zeus and my portion,...him. So what could I do? Deity will always have its way" (19.86ff). Impatient modern readers, as Dodds points out in The Greeks and the Irrational, generally... | |
| Keith Oatley - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 548 pages
...and the Erinyes who walk in darkness: they it was who in the assembly put fierce ate in my phrenes, on that day when I arbitrarily took Achilles' prize from him. So what could I do? The gods will always have their way. (Book 19, line 86, based on Dodds's 1951 translation, p. 3) Ate... | |
| William Holland Drury Jr. - Nature - 2023 - 258 pages
...communication with supernatural beings. Agamemnon explains why he stole the slave girl from Achilles: "Not I was the cause of this act, but Zeus, and my portion, and the Erinyes who walk in darkness: they it was in the assembly put wild ate upon me on that day when I arbitrarily... | |
| Rollo May - Psychology - 1999 - 292 pages
...this act, but Zeus and the furies who walk in darkness: they it was who . . . put wild ate [madness] in my understanding, on that day when I arbitrarily...him. So what could I do? Deity will always have its way. In other words destiny — Zeus and his "wild ate" — will brook no denial. Is Agamemnon saying... | |
| Robert L. Martensen - Medical - 2004 - 278 pages
...Oxford University Press, 1953). 3. Euripides. Medea, XXXX 1078-1080. 4. Agamemnon in Homer's Iliad: "Not I was the cause of this act, but Zeus and my...him. So what could I do? Deity will always have its way," in ER Dodds. The Greeks and the Irrational. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973),... | |
| Carl S. Ehrlich, Marsha C. White - History - 2006 - 380 pages
...understanding so that he sought to compensate for the loss of his own mistress by depriving Achilles of his: "Not I was the cause of this act, but Zeus and my...darkness; they it was who in the assembly put wild infatuation in my understanding, on that day when I arbitrarily took Achilles' prize from him. So what... | |
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