Nov 13, 2013 | The Swineherd of the Odyssey, True Friendship, Wednesday Quotes
Penelope (to Telemachus): “If really he is Odysseus, truly home, beyond all doubt we two shall know each other better than you or anyone. There are secret signs we know, we two.” … Odysseus: “There is our pact and pledge, our secret sign, built into that bed—my...
Nov 6, 2013 | The Swineherd of the Odyssey, True Friendship, Wednesday Quotes
‘You, herdsman, and you, too, swineherd… Would you be men enough to stand by Odysseus if he came back? Would you bear arms for him…?’ The cowherd said: ‘Ah, let the master come! Father Zeus, grant our old wish! Some courier guide him back! Then judge what stuff is in...
Oct 30, 2013 | The Swineherd of the Odyssey, True Friendship, Wednesday Quotes
The swineherd then gave orders to his men: ‘Bring in our best pig for a stranger’s dinner. A feast will do our hearts good too; we know grief and pain, hard scrabbling with our swine, while the outsiders live on our labor.’ Bronze axe in hand, he turned to...
Oct 23, 2013 | Good Work, The Swineherd of the Odyssey, Wednesday Quotes
“Of all Odysseus’ field hands in the old days this forester cared most for the estate; and now Odysseus found him in a remote clearing, sitting inside the gate of a stockade he built to keep the swine while his great lord was gone.” Homer, Odyssey, Bk XIV Eumaeus is a...
Sep 18, 2013 | Natural Steward, Wednesday Quotes
“But on a well-banked plot Odysseus found his father in solitude Spading the earth around a young fruit tree.” Homer, Odyssey, Bk XXIV The father of Odysseus, Laertes, is an old man. Yet he is spading the earth around a young fruit tree. Spading the earth, as all real...
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