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“There is strange tyranny in the god who sent Against your house this cruel punishment.”

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Book:The Bacchae and Other Plays

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The Bacchae and Other Plays

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Euripides

Euripides, a renowned Greek tragic playwright, is one of the three great tragic poets of ancient Greece, alongside Aeschylus and Sophocles. His life and achievements are not well-documented. more

“Speaking so he stirred up Athene, who was eager before this, and she went in a flash of speed down the pinnacles of Olympus. As when the son of devious-devising Kronos casts down a star, portent to sailors or widespread armies of peoples glittering and thickly the sparks of fire break from it, in such likeness Pallas Athene swept flashing earthward”

Greek Mythology Greek Tragedy Greek Play

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“Was bleibt? Nichts als die Qual, die Qual überlebt zu haben”

Poetry Greek Mythology Lyrik

Author:Erich Fried

“I wish I could live here in this meadow. It's gorgeous." "Yeah, it is," Hercules agreed. "That's Persephone's handiwork," he explained. "She's the god of vegetation." "Demeter's daughter, right?" Meg said. "I heard Demeter talking when I was on Olympus. Something about not knowing where the girl had run off to." Hercules nodded. "Yeah, Demeter keeps appealing to my father to find her. No one has seen her in months, and harvest will be coming before long." He touched one of the hyacinths with his finger. "Every flower has its season.”

Seasons Goddess Greek Mythology Persephone Demeter

Book:Go the Distance

Source: Go the Distance

“We humans endure the gifts the gods give us, even when we are grieving over what has to be.”

Greek Mythology Greek Goddesses

Book:HOMERIC HYMN TO DEMETER

Source: HOMERIC HYMN TO DEMETER

“One by one she would cut through the orbits of Janus, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion... worlds bearing the names of gods and goddesses who had vanished only yesterday, as time was counted here.”

Time Astronomy Greek Mythology Scale

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“The wall was an eyesore in its newness, grayness, lack of grace. That much blank space might not set a regular person's blood racing, but to an artist, it's like opening up a new sketchpad, the kind with heavy textured paper. Impossible to leave it empty.”

Comedy Painting Expression Greek Mythology Mystery Thriller Artists Life

Book:Dead Ex

Source: Dead Ex

“When you were the god of spring, helping the Earth come alive every year came with the god description. Her mother, Demeter, may have handled some of the harvests and the soil's fertility, but making the world bloom fell to Persephone. Every spring equinox she'd wander into the orchards and the meadows and put her personal touch on all that came alive. She made the yellow grass turn green with envy. She coaxed every poppy and asphodel bud to awaken from their slumber and shower the landscape in color. She made sure the olive groves flourished, and the figs ripened with honey-like nectar so that the smell of them baking wafted up to Mount Olympus.”

Spring Goddess Greek Mythology Persephone

Book:Go the Distance

Source: Go the Distance

“I dragged on my ruined life in darkness and grief, wrathful in my heart...”

Grief Greek Mythology Virgil The Aeneid

Book:The Aeneid

Source: The Aeneid

“Then, like ravening wolves in a black mist, when the belly's lawless rage has driven them blindly forth, and their whelps at home await them with thirsty jaws, through swords, through foes we pass to certain death, and hold our way to the city's heart; black night hovers around with sheltering shade.”

Greek Mythology Trojan War Virgil The Aeneid

Book:The Aeneid

Source: The Aeneid

“Plan harm for another and harm yourself most, The evil we hatch always comes home to roost.”

Greek Greek Mythology Greek Literature Hesiod

Book:Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns: Including Theogony and Works and Days

Source: Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns: Including Theogony and Works and Days

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