Argos : ancient Greek city in Peloponnesus, at the foot of the Mycenaean & classical acropolis called Larissa, in southern part of the Argive plain, three miles from the sea, it was the principal centre of the worship of Hera. For centuries it struggled with Sparta, rivalling Athens & Corinth. It was the kingdom of Diomedes, who acknowledged Agamemnon’s leadership in the Trojan War. But in Homer Argos is the empire of Agamemnon & practically a synonym for Greece.
... as our counsellor cam'st thou elected from Argos, Nor as a lover to Troy hast thou hastened with amorous footing Hurting thy heart with her frowardness. Hatred and rapine sent thee, Greed of the Ilian gold and lust of the Phrygian women, Voice of Achaian aggression! Doom am I truly; let Gnossus Witness it, Salamis speak of my fatal arrival and Argos Silent remember her wounds." But the Argive... the doors that guarded the domes of the splendour of Priam. Page 336 "Wardens charged with the night, ye who stand in Laomedon's gateway, Waken the Ilian kings. Talthybius, herald of Argos, Parleying stands at the portals of Troy in the grey of the dawning." High and insistent the call. In the dimness and hush of his chamber Charioted far in his dreams amid visions of glory and terror... unknown in the silence eternal, Whether of evil or good it is they who shall choose who are masters Calm, unopposed; they are gods and they work out their iron caprices. Troy is their stage and Argos their background; we are their puppets. Always our voices are prompted to speech for an end that we know not, Always we think that we drive, but are driven. Action and impulse, Yearning and thought ...
... not baulk this dangerous priest. PERSEUS Ah, dare not! Yes, there are fathers too who love their lives And not their children: earth has known of such. There was a father like this once in Argos! IOLAUS Blame not the King too much. CYDONE Turn him to stone, To stone! IOLAUS Hush, hush, Cydone! Page 397 CYDONE Stone, hard stone! IOLAUS I'll whip thee... for thy lord this vagabond, Wander with him as beggars land and sea? Despite thyself I'll save thee from that fate Unworthy of thy beauty and thy sweetness, And make thee Queen in Tyre. Minion of Argos, Learn, ere thou grasp at other's goods, to ask The owner, not the owned. PERSEUS I did not ask her. PHINEUS Then by what right, presumptuous, hast thou her? Or wherefore lies she thus ...
... lacking and from them he soars again and again to climaxes. Perhaps a typical passage showing the small variations of his poetic level is the one in which he prepares the coming of the herald from Argos to Troy in the first daylight. After a memorable line which says that when a mighty moment loaded with a catastrophic future arrives, Only its face and its feet are seen, not the burden it ... silence eternal, Whether of evil or good it is they who shall choose who are masters Calm, unopposed; they are gods and they work out their iron caprices, Troy is their stage and Argos their background; we are their puppets. Always our voices are prompted to speech for an end that we know not, Always we think that we drive but are driven. Action and impulse. ...
... of Aphrodite. According to one legend, Aphrodite floated to Cythera on a seashell after her birth in the sea. Page 113 Danaans: The men of Argos (descendants of Danaus). Danaus: Legendary king of Argos with fifty daughters, regarded as ancestor of the Argives or Danaans. Dardanus: Son of Zeus and Electra, the daughter of Atlas; ancestor of both the younger... Mount Etna, an active volcano in northeast Sicily, beneath which the giant Enceladus was said to be buried. Agamemnon: eldest son of Atreus and brother of Menelas King of Mycenae and Argos. Agamemnon was the commander in chief of the Greek forces against Troy. On his return to Greece, he was murdered by his wife Clymnestra and her paramour Aegisthus; his death was avenged by his ... the Romans, however, tending to see him as a mere instigator of strife. He was the son of Zeus and Hera, and sided with the Trojans against the Greeks. Argives: name used for the Greeks of Argos, also extended to refer to all the Greeks under the leadership of Agamemnon- Artemis: Greek goddess, daughter of Zeus and Latona and the twin sister of Apollo. She was described in mythology ...
... the summons Beat round the doors that guarded the domes of the splendour of Priam. "Wardens charged with the night, ye who stand in Laomedon's gateway, Waken the Ilian kings. Talthybius, herald of Argos, Parleying stands at the portals of Troy in the grey of the dawning." High and insistent the call. In the dimness and hush of his chamber Charioted far in his dreams amid visions of glory and terror... unknown in the silence eternal, Whether of evil or good it is they who shall choose who are masters Calm, unopposed; they are gods and they work out their iron caprices. Troy is their stage and Argos their background; we are their puppets. Always our voices are prompted to speech for an end that we know not, Always we think that we drive, but are driven. Action and impulse, Yearning and thought ...
... Poems and Plays in 1942. Inspired of Homer’s Iliad, Ilion covers the events Page 61 of one day, the day when the fate of Troy was sealed. It starts at dawn with Talthybius, herald of Argos, arriving at Troy with a proposition of truce sent by Achilles to the Troyan chieftains; a proposition to join forces thus offering the possibility of an harmonious and less destructive process for... Mother Earth they called the Great Goddess or the Mother Goddess by many names, (Gaea, Rhea, Demeter). Most of the female divinities in Greek mythology were originally Great Mother Goddesses; Hera in Argos, Artemis in Crete, Aphrodite in Cyprus. Their role changed when they were incorporated into the male-dominated religion of Zeus. Aphrodite was also known as Ishtar Page 68 in Babylon, ...
... Achelous: river in Phyrigia (Asia Minor), east of Troy. Aegean: sea between Greece and Asia Minor. Agamemnon: eldest son of Atreus and brother of Menelaus, King of Mycenae and Argos, Agamemnon was the commander in chief of the Greek forces against Troy. On his return to Greece, he was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her paramour Aegisthus; his death was avenged by his children... Achaeans or Greeks. Alcimus: alternative name for Alcimedon, a Myrmidon commander. Andromache: wife of Trojan Prince Hector. Antiphonus: Trojan, son of Priam. Argos: another name for mainland Greece. Automedon: Charioteer of Achilles; he drove the immortal horses Balius and Xanthus given Peleus by Poseidon. Barrow: a large sepulchral ...
... swimmer sees all Italy from the top of a wave prospexsi Italiam summa sublimis ab unda. I dare say— Sternitur infelix alieno volnere caelumque aspicit et dulcis moriens reminiscitur Argos as well as Page 388 tendebantque manus ripae ulterioris amore. belong to the same category. To an ordinary Roman Catholic mind like Belloc's, which is not conscious of ...
... of the burning Torches delightful shall break into Troy with the swords of the bridal. I like a bridegroom will seize on your city and clasp and defend her Safe from the envy of Argos, from Lacedaemonian hatred, Safe from the hunger of Crete and the Locrian's violent rapine. But if you turn from my voice and you hearken only to Ares Crying for battle within you deluded ...
... unknown in the silence eternal, Whether of evil or good it is they who shall choose who are masters Calm, unopposed; they are gods and they work out their iron caprices. Troy is their stage and Argos their background; we are their puppets. Always our voices are prompted to speech for an end that we know not, Always we think that we drive, but are driven. Action and impulse, Yearning and thought ...
... that are natural to Greek and Latin, even when they are talking of the commonest things, is difficult in English. Professor Campbell has somewhere drawn our attention to Homer's phrase about the dog Argos which, old and uncared for, is lying at the doorstep when Ulysses returns home after his long wanderings. Homer says of the dog: "enipleios kynoraisteon." The first word has four syllables, the second ...
... turn and temper. The latter is no defect in itself; what the poet has to be on guard against is the bathetic or the prosaic. Professor Campbell has observed that Homer could speak of Ulysses' dog Argos as being full of lice without sacrificing all that Arnold claimed for him — rapidity, simplicity, nobility — because the phrase in Greek had a rich rhythm and dignity side by side with its fluent ...
... I fear the man, I'd die of shame to rob him — just think of the trouble I might suffer later. But I'd escort you with all the kindness in my heart, all the way till I reached the shining hills of Argos bound in a scudding ship or pacing you on foot — and no marauder on earth, scorning your escort, would dare attack you then." And the god of luck, leaping onto the chariot right behind the team ...
... but withdraws his vote in terrified retreat when Hera, his spouse, directs her speech upon him. She suggests that if Zeus will agree to the destruction of Troy she will allow him to raze Mycenae, Argos, and Sparta to the ground. The war is renewed; many a man falls pierced by arrow, lance, or sword, and "darkness enfolds his eyes." (V) The gods join in the merry slicing game; Ares, the awful god of ...
... Stunned by that flash of limitless unity I felt as though upon my being stole The weight of one mute moment's lethargy Heavier than the dead centuries that fall On the Argo's plunge across the pristine sea.... What flickering earth-lure has tongue to call The spirit grown wide with this magnificence? Each longing here attains the rapturous All— Here ...
... two members only, but compounds of three members are found, as tris-kako-daimōn , thrice-evil-fated and Aristophanes even perpetrates such forms as glischr-antilog- exepitriptos and sphragid-onuch-argo-komētēs . I have dwelt on these points because they leap to the eye in the perfection otherwise complete of an admirable essay which, I hope, is only the first sketch of a more important treatise ...
... Stunned by that flash of limitless unity I felt as though upon my being stole The weight of one mute moment's lethargy Heavier than the dead centuries that fall On the Argo's plunge across the pristine sea.... What flickering earth-lure has tongue to call The spirit grown wide with this magnificence? Each longing here atains the rapturous All— Page 194 ...
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