tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post3618038537679449691..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Euripides: Religion and Power (A fragment) / Smart City Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-8303964528548046602016-09-01T05:42:18.197-07:002016-09-01T05:42:18.197-07:00Many thanks to all
This notorious little fragment...Many thanks to all<br /><br />This notorious little fragment, revealing the dubious view and dangerously impious attitude of the reclusive, mysterious, famously unhappy in love Euripides, is a small hint as to how it is that, now, he is the one of the several famous tragedians we can still read and stand back before and even learn from, almost as though he were writing for us...<br /><br />He seems to have writ some ninety plays, of which some two dozen survive more or less complete. And there are a lot of bits and pieces of others. Busy fellow he was, at the writing.<br /><br />"As Philochorus relates, most of his tragedies were composed in a dark cave in the isle of Salamis, which was an object of curiosity many years after his death."<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2016/09/euripides-chorus-to-iphigeneia-for-evil.html" rel="nofollow">Euripides: The Chorus to Iphigeneia ("For evil has conquered the race, / There is no power but in base men")</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-14239964015509044172016-08-31T15:17:15.218-07:002016-08-31T15:17:15.218-07:00The old false fable
Nothing can begin or change w...The old false fable<br /><br />Nothing can begin or change without disillusionment. Especially hope.<br /><br />The Kashmiri Intifada keeps on: they're not yet subject to the godless.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-12889332187189654662016-08-31T13:21:16.793-07:002016-08-31T13:21:16.793-07:00if we could measure happiness in different people ...if we could measure happiness in different people we will be amazed !!Sandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15053707892868584990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-29611532844048469312016-08-31T08:51:25.831-07:002016-08-31T08:51:25.831-07:00Tom,
Euripides a man ahead of his time, just &quo...Tom,<br /><br />Euripides a man ahead of his time, just "Look at the facts themselves," -- pictured here in these photos of things happening out there in the world . . .STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.com