Minos : a just king of Crete, son of Zeus & Europa. Idomeneus was his grandson.
... Mild was his rule like the blessing of rain upon fields in the summer. Gladly the harried coasts reposed confessing the Phrygian, Caria, Lycia's kings and the Paphlagon, strength of the Mysian; Minos' Crete recovered the sceptre of old Rhadamanthus. Ilus and Tros had strength in the fight like a far-striding Titan's: Troy triumphant following the urge of their souls to the vastness, Helmeted... wolves to their prey, not the king of a humanised nation, Not to such head of the cold-drifting mist and the gloom-vigilled Chaos, Crude to our culture and light and void of our noble fulfilments Minos shall bend his knee nor Crete, a barbarian's vassal, Stain her old glories. Oh, but he boasts of a goddess for mother Born in the senseless seas mid the erring wastes of the Ocean, White and swift... and there rose up impatient Tall from the spears of the north the hero king Prothoënor, Prince in Cadmeian Thebes who with Leitus led on his thousands. "Loudly thou vauntest thy freedom Ionian Minos recalling, Lord of thy southern isles who gildst with tribute Mycenae. We have not bowed our neck to Pelops' line, at Argos' Iron heel have not crouched, nor clasped like thy time-wearied nations ...
... anything even emotionally important, leave aside anything intellectually significant. Thus they would relish the line from Racine which used to enchant Marcel Proust: La fille de Minos et de Pasiphae. (The daughter of Minos and Pasiphae, (I think they would equally savour a line I might make about the sister of a Parsi student of mine: The daughter of Minoo and Shirinbai'.) Similarly they... almost all we have. But if we are after such an effect in "pure poetry" we should go beyond even the little touch our understanding receives from the phrases we have quoted. To say "The daughter of Minos and Pasiphae" is surely to declare at least a fact with some directness, though we can make no judgment from it, much less draw any precept. Milton's joustings too convey a fact, however minimally and ...
... Lavonya and Tillottama... It is possible to be intoxicated with such Melopoeia, just as Marcel Proust could never tire of that enchantment from Racine: La fille de Minos et de Pasiphaë. (The daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë.) But we do not have here the finest that poetry can offer in this genre, lacking as it does what Rossetti called "fundamental brain-work". We need a deeper ...
... blessing could there be than this, gentlemen? If on arrival in the other world, beyond the reach of our so-called justice, one will find there the true judges who are said to preside in those courts, Minos and Rhadamanthys and Aeacus42 and Triptolimus43 and Page 79 all those other half divinities who were upright in their earthly life, would that be an unrewarding journey? Put it in this... were practiced in various parts of Greece, especially at Eleusis in Attica. 41 The Great King: The king of Persia, regarded as a type of worldly prosperity. 42 Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Aeacus were by tradition mortal sons of Zeus (the gods' king), and became judges in the underworld as a reward for their earthly justice and piety. 43 Triptolemus ...
... blessing could there be than this, gentlemen? If on arrival in the other world, beyond the reach of our so-called justice, one will find there the true judges who are said to preside in those courts, Minos and Rhadamanthys and Aeacus 42 and Triptolimus 43 and all those other half divinities who were upright in their earthly life, would that be an Page 87 unrewarding journey? Put it in this... "mystery cults" which were practised in various parts of Greece, especially at Eleusis in Attica. The Great King: The king of Persia, regarded as a type of worldly prosperity. Minos, Rhadamanthys, andAeacus were by tradition mortal sons of Zeus (the gods' king), and became judges in the underworld as a reward for their earthly justice and piety. Triptolemus was the ...
... Proust's and which is also dear to Bremond: Page 331 La fille de Minos et de Pasiphae And yet, according to Bremond, it casts a spell by its rhythm and turns us mysteriously inward to the soul. If — prosody permitting — we changed the position of the words and wrote: La fille de Pasiphae et de Minos, we would have an ugly coughing phrase because of two separately sounded e's ...
... neither painting nor image—nor sculpure. It is childish as a piece of carpentry." It is such works that create suspicion about all modern works of art. Picasso has also tried, besides Cubism, symbolism. "Mino Tauro Machi" and "Guirnica" both are symbolic paintings. He has himself said that the latter was created in order to express the tragedy, Page 34 cruelty and inhuman elements of ...
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