Troy : situated a few miles south of the entrance to the Hellespont (Dardanelles) on a mound commanding the triangular plateau between the rivers Scamander & Simois. In 2nd millennium BC it was the strongest power on the coast of Asia Minor & its location gave it control over trade between the Aegean & the Black Sea; the Trojan War (c. 200 BC) may have actually been fought by the Greeks mainly to destroy this control. Excavations have discovered on the site of Troy a series of towns one above the other dating back to the third millennium BC. The city of Priam, named after Troy & also known as Ilium or Ilion, was built on the ruins of ancient cities & was surrounded by a massive wall erected by Poseidon & Apollo for Laomedon. The Trojans, according to the Greeks, traced their descent through Dardanus to Zeus & considered their city to be inviolable because of the presence of the Palladium (q.v.).
... promptings. Else could the heart of Troy have recoiled from the loom of the shadow Cast by Achilles' spear or shrunk at the sound of his car-wheels? Now he has graven an oath austere in his spirit unpliant Victor at last to constrain in his stride the walls of Apollo Burning Troy ere he sleeps. 'Tis the vow of a high-crested nature; Shall it break ramparted Troy? Yea, the soul of a man too is mighty... traitor. Troy shall triumph! Hear, O ye peoples, the word of Apollo. Hear it and tremble, O Greece, in thy youth and the dawn of thy future; Rather forget while thou canst, but the gods in their hour shall remind thee. Tremble, O nations of Asia, false to the greatness within you. Troy shall surge back on your realms with the sword and the yoke of the victor. Page 375 Troy shall triumph... than life and strengths that God's hour could not limit! These men seized upon Troy as the tool of their giant visions, Dreaming of Africa's suns and bright Hesperian orchards, Carthage our mart and our feet on the sunset hills of the Latins. Ilion's hinds in the dream ploughed Libya, sowed Italy's cornfields, Troy stretched to Gades; even the gods and the Fates had grown Trojan. So are the natures ...
... Laomedon: A legendary king of Troy, grandson of Tros and father of Priam. He employed Apollo and Poseidon to build the walls of Troy, but cheated them of their payment, as a result of which Poseidon sent a sea monster to ravage the land. Heracles killed the monster, but he too was refused the reward Laomedon had promised him, whereupon Heracles attacked Troy and slew Laomedon and all his sons... creature like a merman, the uper half of his body being human, the lower half fishlike. Troad: A territory in the northwest corner of Asia Minor surrounding Troy, its capital city. Trojans: The people of Troy. Troy: Ancient city in northwest Asia Minor, which was situated a few miles south of the Aegean entrance to the Hellespont (Dardanelles) on a mound commanding the triangular... Menelaus, Tyndareus' successor by their marriage, but was carried off to Troy by Paris. She was the most beautiful of women. As she had many suitors, Tyndareus had each of them take an oath swearing to come to the aid of the man chosen as her husband. It was this oath that brought many Greek princes and their armies to Troy to support Menelaus' cause. Helios: The sun-god. He is conceived ...
... stretched out on his bier. She screamed and her scream rang out through all Troy: "Come, look down, you men of Troy, you Trojan women! Behold Hector now — if you ever once rejoiced to see him striding home, home alive from battle! He was the greatest joy Page 43 of Troy and all our people!" Her cries plunged Troy into uncontrollable grief and not a man or woman was left inside the walls... While mother and son agreed among the clustered ships, trading between each other many winged words, Father Zeus sped Iris down to sacred Troy: "Quick on your way now, Iris, shear the wind! Leave our Olympian stronghold — take a message to greathearted Priam down in Troy: he must go to Achaea's ships and ransom his dear son, bearing gifts to Achilles, gifts to melt his rage. But let him go alone, no other... No one — but at least he hears you're still alive and his old heart rejoices, hopes rising, day by day, to see his beloved son come sailing home from Troy. But I — dear god, my life so cursed by fate... I fathered hero sons in the wide realm of Troy and now not a single one is left, I tell you. Fifty sons I had when the sons of Achaea came, nineteen born to me Page 36 from a single mother's ...
... cleansed and anointed body back to Troy. from Will Durant — The Life of Greece Before the siege of Troy Troy's strong walls were reputedly built with the help of the gods Poseidon and Apollo. The Trojans were further favored by the gift of the Palladium, an image of Pallas-Athene which fell to them from heaven. By the time Priam and Hecuba ruled, Troy was a prosperous center of civilization... The Siege of Troy -06_Appendices.htm Appendices Summary of the Iliad At the opening of the poem, the Greeks have already besieged Troy for nine years in vain; they are despondent, homesick, and decimated with disease. They had been delayed at Aulis by sickness and a windless sea; and Agamemnon had embittered Clytemnestra, and prepared his own fate, by... of so fair a face. Memnon, the Egyptian, arrived to assist Troy, but he too was felled by Achilles. Finally it was the hero's time to die. The god Poseidon guided an arrow of Paris to the one vulnerable spot in Achilles' body: the heel by which his mother held him when he dipped him into the immortalizing water of the river Styx. Still Troy did not yield. Achilles' son, Pyrrus, entered the fray, and ...
... commanded at Troy by his son Achilles Mysians: Trojan allies living east of Troy. Niobe: a Phyrigian woman whose six daughters and six sons were killed by Artemis and Apollo. Paris: the son of Priam and Hecuba, said to be the handsomest of mortal men. At birth he was left on the mountainside because a prophecy forecast that he would bring about the destruction of Troy ... Myrmidons, father of Achilles by the goddess, Thetis. Pergamus: the citadel of Troy. Phyrigia: region in Asia Minor east of Troy. Polyctor: the false name given by Hermes as his father when in disguise he meets Priam on the way to the Greek camp. Priam: king of Troy, father of Hector and Paris. Thetis: sea-goddess, daughter of Nereus, married to... and Dorpfeld excavated nine cities on a hill about three miles from the sea. Of these nine cities, Troy VI was destroyed by fire at about the time of the traditional date of the Trojan War (1194-1184 be). It is likely that this is the Troy to which Homer refers. Trojan: the people of Troy. They claimed descent from a legendary hero, Ilus, who founded their city. Myths tell us that two gods ...
... for her sake would gladly spare Troy. There are hawks and doves both in Troy and in the Greek camp, and even Olympus is divided on the issue. Like the debate in Hell described in the second Book of Paradise Lost, the speeches in the Trojan Assembly, as also those of the Greek chieftains, present forcefully divergent attitudes that have a universal currency. In Troy, the elder statesman Antenor and... enter Troy the same night and set fire to it. All this is prefigured in Cassandra's prophecies and Briseis' visions and Aeneas' dream. Thus his prophetic sister to Paris about Achilles: * See also Sethna, Sri Aurobindo - The Poet, pp. 319ff. Page 643 Yes, he shall fall and his slayer too shall perish and Troy with his slayer.. Thou shalt return for thy hour while Troy yet... days ending with the death of Hector at the hands of Achilles, llion covers the events of a single day, the last day of the doomed city of Troy. The Posthomerica of Quintus of Smyrna mentions how, after Hector's death, among those that rushed to help Troy was Penthesilea the Queen of the Amazons. Later writers have spun heroic romances round the figures of Achilles and Penthesilea, and in Heinrich ...
... the Achaeans have been sieging the city of Troy for more than nine years. The declared motive of the war had been the abduction of Helen, beautiful wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta, by Paris, prince of Troy. To avenge this deception the whole of the Achaean forces, under the commandership of Agamemnon, Menelaus' brother and king of Mycenae, had left for Troy. We are told in one of Aeschilus's play ... we have today date from the 10th century AD. Homer may have been the first historian of ancient Greece. Archaeologists assume that a war against Troy actually occurred, although the remains they have found of that particular Troy are trifling compared to Homer's description of Priam’s great city. The city did burn in 1184 BC which is the accepted date of its destruction. Soon... them to form the foundations of his artistic creation. These blocks included various myths about the gods and about heroes of old (the fathers of the heroes of the Trojan War), myths about the war with Troy and its various participants, from long before the start of the war until Page 39 the last of the heroes had returned home. He furthermore, set passages describing scenes of sacrifice ...
... on its way to Troy. The most powerful tribe that led the Greek army was that of Achaeans. Because of their leadership, all the Greeks engaged in the Siege of Troy came to be called Achaeans. The Siege of Troy proved Page 18 to be unyielding, and continued for nine years during which Achilles played a leading role. Achilles captured quite a number of the cities around Troy, and according... city of Troy stood on Mt. Ida. This mountain forms part of Phrygia. On a hill three miles from the sea, Schliemann and Dorpfeld, in their excavations found 9 cities, superimposed each upon its predecessor, as if Troy1 had nine lives. According to Schliemann, the ruins of the second city belong to Homer's Troy; current opinion identifies the sixth city with Homer's 1 Troy also known... known as Troas, Ilios, Ilion, Ilium. Page 16 Troy and we are assured that that city had perished by fire, shortly after 1200 BC. Greek historians traditionally assigned the Siege of Troy to 1194-1184 BC. Geographically, Troy had a strategic position near the entrance to Hellespont and the rich lands about the Black Sea. The plain was moderately fertile, and precious metals lay in the ...
... bear any title, and it is left incomplete, although the end of the story of Troy is sufficiently indicated. The story of one single day, ending in the doom and ruin of Troy at the hands of Greeks appears to be the plan of the poem. At dawn, the proposal of Achilles is conveyed through his messenger to the leaders of Troy, including Deiphobus, Aeneas, Paris, Penthesilia and Priam; the proposal is... meaning of the Siege of Troy and the fall of Troy. In Sri Aurobindo's vision of history one is required to look into the greater purposes which struggle to Page 32 realize themselves through a complex working out of forces by mutual shocks under the eye of supervening determination and action. In that context, the question that can be raised is: Why should Troy have fallen? Nature... the hands of Achilles. Sri Aurobindo's Ilion covers the events of a single day, the last day of the doomed city of Troy. In Homer's Iliad, the action begins with the wrath of Achilles with Agamemnon. In Sri Aurobindo's Ilion, the action begins with the proposal of Achilles to Troy conveyed at the dawn by a messenger, "carrying Fate in his helpless hands and the doom of an empire." Eight books are ...
... god and the fruitful pain of the iron. Last the eternal gaze was fixed on Troy and the armies Marching swift to the shock. It beheld the might of Achilles Helmed and armed, knew all the craft in the brain of Odysseus, Saw Deiphobus stern in his car and the fates of Aeneas, Greece of her heroes empty, Troy enringed by her slayers, Pans a setting star and the beauty of Penthesilea... unvarying purpose. Troy shall fall at last and the ancient ages shall perish. You who are lovers of Ilion turn from the moans of her people, Chase from your hearts their prayers, blow back from your nostrils the incense. Let not one nation resist by its glory the good of the ages. Twilight thickens over man and he moves to his winter of darkness. Troy that displaced with her... the kings and the masters. Too much pity has been and yielding of Heaven to mortals. I will go down with my chariot drawn by my thunder-maned coursers Into the battle and thrust down Troy with my hand to the silence, Even though she cling round the snowy knees of our child Aphrodite Page 92 Or with Apollo's sun take refuge from Night and her shadows. I will not ...
... in his Collected 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 d... as economical. Troy occupied a very important position in the region and was the door to the riches of the Orient. It commanded most trade between East and West and levied heavy taxes on all ships crossing the Hellespont. Therefore, it is only understandable that, in their need for expansion, it became the target of the Greek peoples. In Sri Aurobindo's poem, the fall of Troy takes an added... reason are contraries are to the overmind intelligence complementaries. Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine In Sri Aurobindo’s own words, his work on Ilion (then entitled The Fall of Troy, an Epic) was started in Alipur jail¹ in 1909 and later resumed in Pondichery where he took refuge in April 1910. The whole work, a long poem written in hexameters,² and left unfinished, was ...
... satisfied, but we should not miss in our love of them the fact that Ilion develops in a new way part of the story of Troy after the death of Hector and the coming of the Eastern Queen Penthesilea to the city's succour. Ili on deals with the events on the last day of the siege of Troy. The nature of these events and the many-sided play they involve of physical circumstance, human character, psychological... themselves at large in its disclosures. Next we may glance at the nearness to something elemental which makes everything come with a ring of greatness. Talthy- bius, the messenger of Achilles to Troy, is briefly conjured up as he rides in his chariot to the just-stirring city: Old and unarmed in the car was the driver; grey was he, shrunken. Worn with his decades. To Pergama cinctured... Death? I have faced it. Fire? I have watched it climb in my vision Over the timeless domes and over the rooftops of Priam, But I have looked beyond and have seen the smile of Apollo... Troy has arisen before, but from ashes, not shame, not surrender ! 2 — or it is the young lover and warrior setting aside both caution and self-censure and evoking happy confident heroism in what ...
... it is not sufficiently Aurobindonian. The third movement of the apocalypse gives us the occult reason why the siege of Troy lasted all those ten long years. Long for the human participants, not for "heaven's strengths" dividing themselves between Greece and Troy. No issue seemed forthcoming for the human fighters, since the divine forces were working out their own play: All went backwards... magnitude his imagery can attain is best laid bare when he tells us of Deiphobus as seen by the Immortals after they had stopped their play with Troy and withdrawn from the battle, the issue already decided by them, the heroes "slain in their minds, Troy burned, Greece left to her glory and downfall". The protagonists on both sides felt a respite from the burden of the Gods, a relief from the tireless... 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 carries ...
... 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, Scenes of a vivider world,—though blurred... content with their work in the plan of the transience, Beautiful, deathless, august, the Olympians turned from the carnage, Leaving the battle already decided, leaving the heroes Slain in their minds, Troy burned, Greece left to her glory and downfall. Into their heavens they rose up mighty like eagles ascending Fanning the world with their wings. As the great to their luminous mansions Turn from the... The Herald But to the guardian towers that watched over Pergama's gateway Out of the waking city Deiphobus swiftly arriving Called, and swinging back the huge gates slowly, reluctant, Flung Troy wide to the entering Argive. Ilion's portals Parted admitting her destiny, then with a sullen and iron Cry they closed. Mute, staring, grey like a wolf descended Old Talthybius, propping his steps ...
... glimpse of the supra-terrestrial." 77 Deiphobus appears "brilliant" to the men of Troy, but to Page 316 the gods he is a dead man in a doomed city; the appearance belies the reality; the petty terrestrial drama is the echo of a voice hushed already. In one tremendous simile Deiphobus and Troy are presented both in Time and in Eternity. Behind man and his pigmy insignificance... God-glory tingle, Lustre of Paradise, light of the earth-ways marry and mingle. 75 The Ilion is an epic after the manner of Homer, continuing the story of the siege of Troy from the point where The Iliad ends; but of the 5,000 lines pf the epic that Sri Aurobindo left behind him, only the first 381 lines were cast in the final form and published in his lifetime. The... itself goes phantom-like fleeting Void and null and dark through the uncaring infinite vastness, So now he seemed to the sight that sees all things from the Real. 76 Troy is already a doomed city; when Deiphobus hastens through the streets he is "a gleaming husk but empty", a corpse, although he doesn't know it; he is like the light of a star "long extinguished". Mr ...
... particularly interesting by being "eclectic" — that is, by combining qualities which often fall apart. In the first stanza the theme — "Helen, thy beauty" — comes redolent of the legendary Helen of Troy over whom a nine-year war was fought as we learn from Homer. It comes also with an echo of Marlowe's great lines on that Helen: Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burned the... to plough the seas for eleven years before reaching his native Ithaca. An Odyssean travail of the poet's being is what Poe's Helen puts an end to by her beauty. Poe's Helen is evidently not Helen of Troy, who was no cause of ultimate rest to Odysseus, yet the new Helen carries an aura of her, as it were, and becomes an ideal woman in whom legends of perfect loveliness are alive and by whom the trouble... to chords resolving the pressure of the phrase "weary way-worn wanderer". In the second stanza another key-note is given to the theme. The remembrance of Helen, of the Greek warriors who besieged Troy for her sake, and of Odysseus who was one of them — this remembrance becomes the gateway to a sense of the temper, both in life and art, of the ancient world. The Woman addressed is seen as the embodiment ...
... previous birth. And then didn't Hector abduct Helen and caused the destruction of Troy? How dreadful! I must first get the facts right for you have rolled people into each other with an almost divine vigour. It was Paris if you please who made the disreputable false step which led to the destruction of Troy. To put the blame on the shoulders of poor Hector who was not only a fervent patriot... Ramakrishna. 2. Trojan warrior, son of Priam and Hecuba, brother of Paris and Cassandra (who was loved by Apollo). Hector was killed by Achilles, who dragged his body three times round the walls of Troy. Page 339 telling Mother that the latter was one of his previous incarnations—consequently one of mine too. She told me that they had, both, some distinct resemblance to my humble ...
... Marmara, separating European from Asian Turkey. Ancient name: Hellespont. 2 Troy was an ancient city in northwestern Anatolia that holds an enduring place in both literature and archaeology. The legend of the Trojan War is the most notable theme from ancient Greek literature and forms the basis of Homer's Iliad. Ancient Troy commanded a strategic point at the southern entrance to the Dardanelles (H... distributed among them most of what he possessed in Macedonia. These were his preparations and this was the adventurous spirit in which he crossed the Hellespont.1 Once arrived in Asia, he went up to Troy,2 sacrificed to Athena 3 and poured libations 4 to the heroes of the Greek army.... Meanwhile Darius' generals 5 had gathered a large army and posted it at the crossing of the river Granicus, so ...
... being what she is? Was there another Troy for her to burn? This, too, can stand on aesthetic grounds a safe comparison with anything in the old genre , even the deepest music possible there: Who dreamed that Beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new wonder may betide, Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam... for immediately we perceive the impulse behind the summer-charm as one which would most naturally tend to run against rules — here the rule of the iambic metre! The poem entitled No Second Troy differs from The Folly in that its emotional element is more implicit than the latter's and the intellectual rises to the front. The emotion is not lost, it constantly supplies fuel to the intellectual ...
... thundered, while down below Poseidon Caused the limitless earth to rumble and quake From plain to sheer mountain peaks. Well-watered Ida Was shaken from bottom to top, as were the city Of Troy and ships of Achaea. Hades, god Of ghosts in the world under ground, was filled with panic And sprang from his throne with a scream, lest Poseidon, shaker Of earth, should split the ground... of Peleus. Assuming the form And voice of Priam's son Lycaon, Apollo, Son of Zeus, spoke thus to the counselor of Trojans: "Aeneas, where now are the brags you made to the princes Of Troy when you, over wine, declared yourself ready To fight man to man with Peleus' son Achilles?" To which Aeneas: "Lycaon, why would you tell me This way to fight face to face, against my... Achilles. For we two, Pallas Athena and I, have sworn Very numerous oaths in the presence of all the immortals That we would never keep from the Trojans the hard day Of doom, not even when Troy shall burn with furious Fire lit by the warlike sons of Achaeans." When Poseidon heard this, he went alone through the fight Mid a tumult of hurtling spears till he came to Aeneas And ...
... Iliad begins with the tenth year of the siege of Troy and concludes with the death and funeral rites of Hector. The subsequent history of the Trojan War may be pieced together from references in other poems of olden times. The Wooden Horse episode is narrated by Aeneas to Dido in the Aeneid. The interval between Hector's death and the burning of Troy was filled with the achievements Page 53... Books of Ilion now available it is difficult to say how Sri Aurobindo had planned to plot his epic. The editor's prefatory note says that the poem "deals with events on the last day of the siege of Troy". In these nine Books the centre of the action is the issue between Penthesilea and Achilles and the issue is not concluded in Book FX, which is itself extant only as a fragment. In the first Book of ...
... Aphorism - 40 40—There are four very great events in history, the siege Page 62 of Troy, the life and crucifixion of Christ, the exile of Krishna in Brindavan and the colloquy with Arjuna on the field of Kurukshetra. The siege of Troy created Hellas, the exile in Brindavan 1 created devotional religion (for before there was only meditation and worship), Christ ...
... foreigners too can sympathise and weep over what has happened in Troy and get touched by human misfortune," then the line will lose all its value and we would only have to admire the strong turn and recherché suggestiveness of its expression. Virgil certainly did not mean it like that; he starts indeed by stressing the generality of the fame of Troy and the interest in her misfortune but then he passes from ...
... most historic achievements seem almost pale and ineffective. 41) There are four very great events in history, the siege of Troy, the life and crucifixion of Christ, the exile of Krishna in Brindavun and the colloquy with Arjuna on the field of Kurukshetra. The siege of Troy created Hellas, the exile in Brindavun created devotional religion, (for before there was only meditation and worship,) Christ ...
... The Siege of Troy -03_Preface.htm Illumination, Heroism and Harmony Preface The task of preparing teaching-learning material for value oriented education is enormous. There is, first, the idea that value oriented education should be exploratory rather than prescriptive, and that the teaching learning material should provide to the learners a growing... When illumination and heroism join and engender relations of mutuality and unity, each is perfected by the other and creativity is endless. In Homer's description of the events of the siege of Troy, we are presented with a vast field of war where men are tested to reveal the depth of their courage, strength and heroism. In this process, human nature is honed by gigantic forces both human and divine ...
... bright archangel in vision flies 562 At last I find a meaning of soul's birth 608 At the way's end when the shore raised up . . . 579 Awake, awake, O sleeping men of Troy 189 Because Thou art All-beauty and All-bliss 623 Because thy flame is spent, shall mine grow less 179 Behold, by Maya's fantasy of will 639 Bride of the... his heel 16 Rishi who trance-held on the mountains old 220 Rose, I have loved thy beauty, as I love 180 Rose of God, vermilion stain . . . 564 Rushing from Troy like a cloud on the plains . . . 274 Seer deep-hearted, divine king of the secrecies 677 She in her garden, near the high grey wall 187 Silence is all, say the sages ...
... Ibid., p. 236. 11 Collected Poem, SABCL, Vol. 5, p. 392. Page 248 down to the present day. Troy will turn down the offer; Achilles will join the fray, reduce the city to rack and ruin; Aeneas, the man of destiny, will set sail from Troy to found Latium and the Latin race and thus lay the foundations of the Roman Empire and the modem European civilisation. All ...
... sole function of the artist. All supreme artists have declared loveliness to be a reality and a reality distinct from the vulgar and squashy. Homer did it when he made Helen come to the battlements of Troy and walk before the elders who had just been bitterly bewailing the loss of so much life for a mere woman. As soon as they caught sight of the daughter of Leda, they forgot their lamentation and slapped... the dykes of our content The crumpling flood will force a rent or in MacNeice's The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy. These are instances of a cleverness that is not cold and barren, a speech that reflects an amalgamation of different modes of experiencing and therefore employs common and even colloquial terms ...
... Melopoeia is Virgil. According to Arnold Bennett, the most marvellously rhythmed line in all poetic literature is Aeneas's gesture of helplessness when Queen Dido of Carthage asks him for the story of Troy: Infandum, regina, jubes renovare dolorem. The ring of profound pathos in these Latin vocables is as good as impossible to transfer into English. The nearest I can attempt is: Queen... speaks of dallying "with the sweet-lipped rain" or hearing the blue waves that are "like a shaken robe" or gives us, in the very first hexameters he ever wrote, a picture of Paris under the walls of Troy— Round him the arrows, Round him the spears of the Argives sang like voices of maidens Trilling the anthem of bridal bliss, the chant hymeneal; Round him the warriors fell like ...
... Greek god Hephaestus had also an abnormal leg, but Sri Aurobindo in his Ilion brings out his godhead all the same when he describes how from the conference of the deities before the final battle at Troy he descended to take his particular secret station among the fighters: Down upon earth he came with his lame omnipotent motion. To return to my not so omnipotent movements, let me wind up by... intimate strings of the human heart. Some of the typical Homeric effects you will find again and again in Sri Aurobindo's Ilion which is not a translation but a new vision of the last day of the siege of Troy, long after Homer has Page 376 finished with his story. Sri Aurobindo is more complex, more rich, more spiritual than Homer, yet he has always Homer's ocean-rumour, Homer's eye on clear-cut ...
... prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action; that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one. On your view the heroes who died at Troy would be poor creatures, especially the son of Thetis.²² He, if you remember, made so light of danger in comparison with incurring dishonour that when his goddess mother warned him, eager as he was... searching people's minds, to find out who is really wise among them, and who only thinks that he is. What would one not give, gentlemen, to be able to question the leader of that great host against Troy, or Odysseus, or Sisyphus,49 or the thousands of other men and women whom one could mention, to talk and mix and argue with whom would be unimaginable happiness? At any rate I presume that they do not ...
... harmony. * * * Page 9 Page 10 There are four very great events in history, the siege of Troy, the life and crucifixion of Christ, the exile of Krishna in Brindavan and the colloquy with Arjuna on the field of Kurukshetra. The siege of Troy created Hellas, the exile in Brindavan created devotional religion, (for before there was only meditation and worship), Christ ...
... prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action; that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly like a good man or a bad one. On your view the heroes who died at Troy would be poor creatures, especially the son of Thetis. 22 He, if you remember, made so light of danger in comparison with incurring dishonour that when his goddess mother warned him, eager as he was... searching people's minds, to find out who is really wise among them, and who only thinks that he is. What would one not give, gentlemen, to be able to question the leader of that great host against Troy, or Odysseus, or Sisyphus, 49 or the thousands of other men and women whom one could mention, to talk and mix and argue with whom would be unimaginable happiness? At any rate I presume that they do ...
... (5) The main problem was to organise the strength of India in order to repel the threatened aggression." We may remind ourselves of Talthybius's mission to Troy in Sri Aurobindo's epic poem Ilion : Achilles made an offer by which Troy would be saved and the honour of the Greeks would be preserved, a harmonising offer, but it was rejected. Similarly, Duraiswamy went with India's soul in his "frail" ...
... Nereid, or sea nymph, Thetis. He was the bravest handsomest, and greatest warrior of the army of Agamemnon in the Trojan War. During the first nine years of the war, Achilles ravaged the country around Troy and took 12 cities. In the 10th year a quarrel with Agamemnon occurred when Achilles insisted that Agamemnon restore Chryseis, his prize of war, to her father, a priest of Apollo, so as to appease the... further service, and consequently the Greeks floundered so badly that at last Achilles allowed Patroclus to impersonate him lending him his chariot and armour. Hector (the eldest son of King Priam of Troy) slew Patroclus, and Achilles, having finally reconciled with Agamemnon, obtained new armour from the god Hephaestus and slew Hector After dragging Hector's body behind his chariot, Achilles gave it ...
... of Book IX to this purpose: Sad task! yet argument Not less but more heroic than the wrath Of stern Achilles on his foe pursued Thrice fugitive about Troy wall; or rage Of Turnus for Lavinia disespoused; Or Neptune's ire, or Juno's, that so long Perplexed the Greek, and Cytherea's son:... Not sedulous by nature... 'covered' the triple worlds of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise; Milton's, likewise, sweeps across Hell, Chaos, Earth and Heaven. In these two epics, the scene of action is wider than the environs of Troy, and vaster than the Mediterranean or the great globe itself. We have to reckon with new dimensions and unknown modes of being. While there is thus an immense, an incalculable, extension in space ...
... Short Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1901) Collected Poems The Three Cries of Deiphobus Awake, awake, O sleeping men of Troy, That sleep and know not in the grasp of Hell I perish in the treacherous lonely night To foes betrayed, environed and undone. O Trojans, will ye sleep until the doom Have slipped its leash and bark upon your ...
... existence) with the "Aryan" Mahabharata? Could this self-inflicted puzzle be the reason why S. R. Rao's rediscovery of ancient Dwaraka has not attracted the degree of attention which that of ancient Troy by Schliemann did? Such has also been the fate of V. S. Wakankar's rediscovery in the 1980s of the bed of the Vedic river Saraswati, confirmed by satellite photography. This great river, now ...
... realms of being, our own and the world's, and he does this even when he is dealing with actual things. Homer with all his epic vigour of outward presentation does not show us the heroes and deeds before Troy in their actuality as they really were to the normal vision of men, but much rather as they were or might Page 248 have been to the vision of the gods. Shakespeare's greatness lies not in ...
... its essential power and the magnitude of the genius expended may be the same whatever the frame of the sight, whether it be Homer chanting of the heroes in god-moved battle Page 224 before Troy and of Odysseus wandering among the wonders of remote and magic isles with his heart always turned to his lost and far-off human hearth, Shakespeare riding in his surge of the manifold colour and music ...
... they forge there sitting 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 ...
... or her own province on the summits and what is the necessity of putting them in rivalry with each other? It is a sort of Judgment of Paris you want to impose on me? Well, but what became of Paris and Troy? You want me to give the crown or the apple to Music and enrage the Goddesses of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Embroidery, all the Nine Muses, so that they will kick at our publications and exhibitions ...
... which Arnold Bennett considered the most rhythmical in all poetic literature - the phrase Virgil put in the mouth of Aeneas when that hero voiced his helplessness before Dido's request for the story of Troy: Infandum. regina, jubes renovare dolorem. Day Lewis converts this mournful magic into: O queen, the griefs you bid me reopen are inexpressible - a beginning good enough but a rather ...
... skirted — things like that outrageous distortion of Homer by Chapman in his translation of the Iliad: And such a stormy day shall come, in mind and soul I know, Page 184 When sacred Troy shall shed her towers for tears of over-throw. The second line is what is called a conceit — something which, as Sri Aurobindo puts it, does not convey any true vision or emotion but is meant to ...
... intense guiding word from the Muse: Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write! An almost complete hexameter too can be monosyllabic. Take from Sri Aurobindo's Ilion the verse about Troy and the aged messenger from Achilles — Filled with her deeds and her dreams her gods looked out on the Argive — or the other in which the Amazon Queen Penthesilia recalls her younger days ...
... merely the action and stir of battle." 30 Yet again: "Homer with all his epic vigour of outward presentation does not show us the heroes and their deeds before Troy in their actuality as they really were to the normal vision of men, but much rather as they were or might have been to the vision of the gods." 31 This vision ...
... first part is padded rhetoric and the second a violent and extravagant conceit empty of all true or high feeling: And such a stormy day shall come, in mind and soul I know, When sacred Troy shall shed her towers for tears of overthrow. Even when a verse is free from such startling falsities, there is often a jerkiness flawing it. An exceedingly fine phrase is another rendering ...
... Odysseus, in the passage beginning Rather far would I sail in my ships past southern Cythera, is made to anticipate the wanderings through which he went for twenty years after the fall of Troy before returning home to Ithaca. The passage has a very dramatic effect, as of prophecy, for all who remember the subject of Homer's Odyssey. The line, put into the mouth of Briseis, in The ...
... thought, heart void of hunger's bond 647 Mine be the veilless word, 250 Moon of my soul, 468 Moon shadowed by earth-love 644 Moon-quarried tower before which marble Troy 702 Most heart-consuming, most intensely cold, 348 My dawn's first glimpse, the last glimpse of my night 293 My dream is spoken 153 My feet are sore. ...
... were needed, yet after a lapse of so many decades everything was fresh, spontaneous and recalled in vivid detail!’ 6 Sri Aurobindo’s unfinished epic, Ilion, about the last day of the siege of Troy, is a monument of classical knowledge. There is his drama, Perseus the Deliverer. There is Heraclitus , an essay on the pre-Socratic philosopher, which reads fluently even after seventy years and ...
... time he had been Augustus. The Mother, on one Pranam-occasion, saw two figures behind Dilip. When she described them to Sri Aurobindo he identified them as Horace and Hector. In the age of the siege of Troy Sri Aurobindo is taken to have been Paris, the Mother Helen and Nolini the husband of Helen, King Menelaus of Sparta from whom Trojan Paris seduced away Helen. On one occasion when I remarked to the ...
... Virgil, the start of the Aeneid. This is how he puts it: Page 133 I wel now singen, yif I kan, The armes, and also the man That first cam, thrugh his destinee, Fugityf of Troy countree. Have we here the least sensitiveness to the tone of the Virgilian overture? – Arma virumque cano, Trojae qui primus ab oris Italiam, fato profugus, Laviniaque venit Litora ...
... pursue. For thus we moderns drink of love's fierce joy: We launch no ships: we yield—the Moment's thralls— And disappear. With foxtrot and with waltz We trace upon our lives the tale of Troy. Page 8 ...
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... distributed among them most of what he possessed in Macedonia. These were his preparations and this was the adventurous spirit in which he crossed the Hellespont. Once arrived in Asia, he went up to Troy, sacrificed to Athena and poured Page 104 libations to the heroes of the Greek army. He anointed with oil the column which marks the grave of Achilles, ran a race by it naked with his companions ...
... for Alexander; when he crossed the Hellespont he was, in his interpretation, retracing the steps of Achilles; when he conquered Hither Asia he was completing the work that his ancestor had begun at Troy. Through all his campaigns he carried with him a copy of the Iliad annotated by Aristotle; often he placed it under his pillow at night beside his dagger, as if to symbolize the instrument and the goal ...
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... moments of ever-changing fire. 3. The Iliad and the Odyssey: Great epic poems composed by Homer. The Iliad is the earliest written work of ancient Greece. It tells us the story of the siege of Troy. Scholars believe that Homer composed it as a young man in the middle of the 8th century BC. The Odyssey: It is believed that if the Iliad was a product of Homer's _____________ * Dropsy: ...
... or her own province on the summits and what is the necessity of putting them in rivalry with the others? It is a sort of Judgment of Paris you want to impose on me? Well, but what became of Paris and Troy? You want me to give the crown or apple to Music and enrage the Goddesses of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Embroidery, all the Nine Muses? Your test of precedence - universal appeal - is all ...
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... The Siege of Troy -02_Acknowledgements.htm Acknowledgements This monograph is part of a series on Value-oriented Education centered on three values: Illumination, Heroism and Harmony. The research, preparation and publication of the monographs that form part of this series are the result of the cooperation of the following members of the research team of the ...
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... meeting the naive and chaste Nausicaa. When he narrates his adventures, and more particularly when he Page 392 hears Demodocus tell the story of the wooden horse and the sack of Troy, he feels almost as Bernal feels in Conquistador when he recapitulates the conquest of Mexico. What price glory! Isn't the mere warrior a destroyer more than a creator? George de F. Lord concludes ...
... most beautiful woman in the world. Bewitched, beside himself, he cried out: Is this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilion?¹ It was the Helen of Troy. At the extreme end of the journey Satan was slowly dragging him on towards the brink from where, once down, there is no return. In the very midst of all superhuman ecstasy he felt, he was being burnt ...
... 32n Srotas, 330 St. Augustine, 290, 338 Stone Age, 155 SunahsheIta, 318 Surra, 221, 327 TAGORE,97 Tantras, the, 182-3, 326 Tertullian, 290n – De Carne Christi, 290n Troy, 399 UNITED STATES, THE, 362 Upanishads, the, 188, 221, 246, 272-3, 27.5, 284, 297, 310-11, 320, 334, 340,371,377,379, 388-9,400 – Katha, 284n., 298n – Kena, 272 Urvasie, 390-1 ...
... Brutus (Aeneas' grandson) delivered the displaced Trojans from their captivity in Greece, and took them to Page 153 the far-off island, named after him Britain, to establish a new Troy there. Sri Aurobindo's play was meant to present the struggle between the descendants of Brutus and the invading Hans under Humber. When he is drunk with success, Humber thinks that he is greater than ...
... which preceded the war and of the men who made it and their motives, we may safely say that this also is an essential part of the epic. The Iliad deals only with an episode of the legendary siege of Troy, it covers an action of [ ] days in a conflict lasting ten years, & its subject is not the Trojan War but the Wrath of Achilles. Homer was under no obligation therefore to deal with the political causes ...
... Short Poems Published in 1909 and 1910 Collected Poems An Image Know more > Rushing from Troy like a cloud on the plains the Trojans thundered, Just as a storm comes thundering, thick with the dust of kingdoms, Edged with the devious dance of the lightning, so all Troas Loud with the roar of the chariots, loud with the vaunt and the war-cry ...
... Ilion . Sri Aurobindo began work on this epic in quantitative hexameters in 1908 or 1909. The earliest surviving manuscript lines of the poem — then entitled "The Fall of Troy: An Epic" — were dated by the author as follows: "Commenced in jail, 1909, resumed and completed in Pondicherry, April and May 1910." Between then and 1914, he worked steadily on this ...
... The Secret Splendour Helena—Two Visions Moon-quarried tower before which marble Troy Was a tiny transience, well worth throwing away— Whiteness ineffable, drawing towards timeless joy Man's arms through passioning night and longing day. Did Menelaus enfold your secret light? Did Paris plumb your radiant mystery? They knew ...
... external force: In cities cut like gems of conscious stone. 17 We are reminded of a story from Greek mythology in which Apollo plays on his lyre and his divine music creates the city of Troy. It is, therefore, that architecture that is sometimes called "frozen music". If rhythm can create a city, however allegorical it might be, then we can say that there is an awareness concealed in ...
... an Page 235 odd thing, the Rose! It must be at the same time red and yellow and white, a folded bud and a crowd of petals and a fading fragrance. It must be something that Helen of Troy received from Paris — Homer's Paris, of course, and not Mallarme's — Paris the man to whom she was madly drawn and not Paris the city from which she might have run away frightened as if it had been ...
... fountainous motion her white hands and arms That wavered, then went downward, casting out Denial. And boldly individual like that famous Homeric comparison of the elders on the walls of Troy to thin-legged squeaky grass-hoppers is the image: And as a spider by the finest thread Hangs from the rafters, so the sky-born hung By but the frailest thread of memory from The ...
... his hero Aeneas and the faithful friend Achates, after suffering shipwreck, arrive on the African shore and wander up to a temple and chance upon a frieze of engravings in which scenes of the tale of Troy are depicted. Aeneas is greatly moved by this discovery and raises a moan in which not a single English translator of Virgil from Dryden down to our day has introduced the "tears of things". When we ...
... still unable to rid our minds of the overpowering influence of the dismissal by western scholars of our own ancient records: The Puranas? They believe in the historicity of Homer and excavate Troy, but will not allow that same probability to the Puranas simply because they speak of a civilized antiquity in a colonized country when the western man was living in caves, and that is unacceptable ...
... conception: it can be full of surprises, the most unfamiliar similes and metaphors may be at play, yet the vision is harmoniously integrated at the core. The elders sitting and talking on the battlements of Troy Homer compares to grasshoppers because of their thin legs and screechy voices. Though one receives a sort of shock, it is a shock wholly assimilable into the poetic passion of the narrative; it is not ...
... headdress for women copulation. (sexuality) कुरूः priest (कृ to do) action boiled rice. (कृ to do?) कूरः, -रं substance or cook कुरूविस्त a weight of gold (700 Troy grains) कुरूटः a kind of pot-herb कुरूटिन् horse कुरूंटः red amaranth कुरूंडः colour or substance कुरूंटी wooden doll, puppet substance wife of a teacher ...
... certitude on behalf of the theory of rebirth. The external evidence yet available is in the last degree rudimentary. Pythagoras was one of the greatest of sages, but his assertion that he fought at Troy under the name of the Antenorid and was slain by the younger son of Atreus is an assertion only and his identification of the Trojan shield will convince no one who is not already convinced; the modern ...
... beaten & shorn of his glory by the forces of winter and because his brilliant career set in the western ocean and he passed there a long night of captivity. With the same light confidence the siege of Troy is turned by the scholars into a sun myth because the name of the Greek Helena, sister of the two Greek Aswins, Castor & Pollux, is philologically identical with the Vedic Sarama and that of her abductor ...
... the idea and the diction; these are exceedingly fine and powerful—but not noble. There is no nobility at all in the third: And such a stormy day shall come, in mind and soul I know, When sacred Troy shall shed her towers, for tears of overthrow. Page 171 The first line of the couplet is rhetorical and padded, the second is a violent, indeed an extravagant conceit which does not convey ...
... poetry a triple face. An object is Page 43 seen to be a magnified version of something minute, something commonplace and unpretentious, as Homer describes the elders on the walls of Troy as sitting and chattering like grasshoppers, in order to convey acutely the fact of their thin screeching voices and their lean legs. Or an object is compared to something physically big and imposing ...
... fountainous motion her white hands and arms That wavered, then went downward, casting out Denial. And boldly individual like that famous Homeric comparison of the elders on the walls of Troy to thin-legged squeaky grasshoppers is the image: And as a spider by the finest thread Hangs from the rafters, so the sky-born hung By but the frailest thread of memory from ...
... mighty supra-intellectualism is left behind. This latter aspect is shown magnificently in "The Book of the Gods" in Ilion. Zeus summons all the Gods to assembly and declares the divine will that Troy should perish and be razed to the ground, however heart-rending the event may prove to many of the deities, for only by the perishing of one culture and the arising of another can man progress: the ...
... its high Homeric beginning and the lyrical surprise which follows it, drawing by their play of contrasting imagery the most charming character-sketch possible of Priam's son: Rushing from Troy like a cloud on the plains the Trojans thundered, Just as a storm comes thundering, thick with the dust of kingdoms, Edged with the devious dance of the lightning, so all Troas Loud ...
... Parted the eternal lids that open heaven; A Form from far beatitudes seemed to near. 1 On the same level, the sheer Overmind, we have those unforgettable lines of Marlowe on Helen of Troy, which, according to Sri Aurobindo, manifest the Overmind afflatus more on the emotional or descriptive side than on the ideative: Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burned ...
... night. He came for Sri Aurobindo's blessings, lay prostrate before him, got up and stood looking at the Master with folded hands and then departed. We may remind ourselves of Talthybius's mission to Troy in Sri Aurobindo's epic poem Won. Similarly, Duraiswami went with India's soul in his frail hands and brought it back, down-hearted, rewarded with ungracious remarks for the gratuitous advice." ...
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... much. SRI AUROBINDO: Because he is the fashion, I suppose. NIRODBARAN: You have written an epic called Aeneid? SRI AUROBINDO: No, Ilion: it is in hexameter and about the end of the siege of Troy. NIRODBARAN: What about Radhanand's poetry? He writes in French also. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, his French poetry is very good. The Mother likes it; there is imagination and beauty. Of course, she corrects ...
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... an idea, many a fancy, has survived and j proved stronger and more persistent than the empire. Egypt's might is tumbled down, Down a-down the deeps of thought; Greece is fallen and Troy town, Glorious Rome hath lost her crown, Venice' pride is nought. But the dreams their children dreamed, Fleeting, unsubstantial, vain, Shadowy as the shadows seemed ...
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... Ilion was to describe the course of the last day of the Trojan War, culminating perhaps in the death of Penthesilea at the hands of Achilles, Achilles at the hands of Paris, and the destruction of Troy at night, all to be presented with an Aurobindonian spiritual awareness matching the Homeric sense of imminent doom. Ilion, in short, was to be a tragedy, whereas Savitri is a paean of triumph ...
... was unprecedented in human history, so far as the military history of the world is concerned. Such a front there never was and never so many people participated in war. What took place in Greece in Troy - the Trojan War between the Greeks and the Trojans - was in a tiny corner. It was nothing, materially speaking, and externally it took place in a corner of the world. Nobody even knew about it. And ...
... existence) with the 'Aryan' Mahabharata ? Could this self-inflicted puzzle be the reason why S. R. Rao's rediscovery of ancient Dwaraka has not attracted the degree of attention which that of ancient Troy by Schliemann did? Is further proof needed? Well, there is plenty of it. From astronomy, since certain Brahmanas, which followed the Veda, contain references to celestial events such as solstices ...
... The Secret Splendour O This Old Age.. O this old age that makes a mockery Of Helen and Troy's fire a waste of love To Menelaus's blurred and bounded eye! Alone the poet's will—"Tine shall not move When once the flawless note is struck"—keeps bright The Swan-sired face and the reddening topless towers. Nought save his reverie ...
... Gandhamadan parvat? He could have told him straight away that it was in such and such a place, instead of Hanuman having to search for it everywhere. The shadow-of-Sita story reminds me of Helen of Troy's story. Someone—perhaps Euripides—says that it was not the real Helen but her image that was taken by Paris and that after the battle was over she rejoined her husband. ...
... living. Then he has joy in his breast and day by day he is hopeful, Waiting to see his own dear son returned from the Troad; Yet myself am bereft entirely, I who begot sons Best in Troy's broad land, and see not one who is left me... Have due thought of the gods, Achilles, and show me compassion, Your father bear in your heart; for I am more to be pitied Even than ...
... Goddess, sing! Virgil's Aeneid has two hexameters and an extra foot for the initial grammatical unit. C, Day Lewis represents them by: To tell of the war and the hero who first from Troy's frontier, Displaced by destiny, came to the Lavinian shores, To Italy... Dante's Divina Commedia runs its start into a trio of lines setting the terza rima moving. In Dorothy ...
... heavenly Goddess sing! Virgil's Aeneid has two hexameters and an extra foot for the initial grammatical unit. C. Day Lewis represents them by: To tell of the war and the hero who first from Troy's frontier, Displaced by destiny, came to the Lavinian shores, To Italy.... Dante's Divina Commedia runs its start into a trio of lines setting the terza rima moving. In Dorothy Sayers's ...
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