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Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1) QUOTES

Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1) QUOTES

1 " Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable. "

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2 " For the world seems never to offer anything worthwhile without also providing a dreadful opposite. "

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3 " Kronos had seen by now that his wife was expecting and he readied himself for the happy day when he could consume the sixth of his children. He was taking no chances. "

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4 " His heart lifted to a state approaching something like happiness, however, when he heard, unexpectedly, the sound of Rhea's low sweet voice humming gently to herself as she came up the slope towards the mountaintop. Loveliest sister and dearest wife! It was quite natural that she had been a little upset by his consumption of their six children, but she surely understood that he had had no choice. She was a Titan, she knew about duty and destiny. "

― , Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

5 " Creation at this time, peopled as it was by primal deities whose whole energy and purpose seems to have been directed towards reproduction, was endowed with an astonishing fertility. The soil was blessed with such a fecund richness that one could almost believe that if you planted a pencil it would burst into flower. "

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6 " ...we do not lend the hearth quite the importance that our ancestors did, Greek or otherwise. Yet, even for us, the word stands for something more than just a fireplace. We speak of 'hearth and home'. The word 'hearth' shares its ancestry with 'heart', just as the modern Greek for 'hearth' is kardia, which also means 'heart'. In Ancient Greece the wider concept of hearth and home was expressed by the oikos, which lives on for us today in economics and ecology. The Latin for hearth is focus - with speaks for itself. It is a strange and wonderful thing that out of the words for fireplace we have spun "cardiologist', 'deep focus' and 'eco-warrior'. The essential meaning of centrality that connects them also reveals the great significance of the hearth to the Greeks and Romans, and consequently the importance of Hestia, its presiding deity. "

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7 " Besides, I can hear the beasts stamping and lowing in the back. I’d know their moo anywhere. That baby is a thief and I demand— "

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8 " Ressamlar, şairler ve filozoflar, Sisyphos mitine dair pek çok şey gördüler. İnsan yaşamının absürtlüğünü, çabanın beyhudeliğini, kaderin amansız zalimliğini, yerçekiminin yenilmez gücünü gördüler. Ancak insanlığın cesaretine, direncine, dayanıklılığına ve kendine olan inancına dair şeyler de gördüler. Boyun eğmeyi reddedişimize dair kahramanca şeyler gördüler. "

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9 " Green fingers are better than gold. "

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10 " The Greeks created gods that were in their image; warlike but creative, wise but ferocious, loving but jealous, tender but brutal, compassionate, but vengeful. "

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11 " Gaia listened carefully to this wise counsel and - as we all do, whether mortal or immortal - ignored it. "

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12 " Painters, poets and philosophers have seen many things in the myth of Sisyphus. They have seen an image of the absurdity of human life, the futility of effort, the remorseless cruelty of fate, the unconquerable power of gravity. But they have seen too something of mankind’s courage, resilience, fortitude, endurance and self-belief. They see something heroic in our refusal to submit. "

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13 " It is enough to say that the Greeks thought it was Chaos who, with a massive heave, or a great shrug, or hiccup, vomit or cough, began the long chain of creation that has ended with pelicans and penicillin and toadstools and toads, sea-lions, lions, human beings and daffodils and murder and art and love and confusion and death and madness and biscuits. "

― , Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

14 " When lust descends, discretion, common sense and wisdom fly off and what may seem cunning concealment to one in the grip of passion looks like transparently clumsy idiocy to everyone else. "

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15 " What Pandora did not know was that, when she shut the lid of the jar so hastily, she for ever imprisoned inside one last daughter of Nyx. One last little creature was left behind to beat its wings hopelessly in the jar for ever. Its name was ELPIS, Hope. "

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16 " Brooding, simmering and raging in the ground, deep beneath the earth that once loved him, Ouranos compressed all his fury and divine energy into the very rock itself, hoping that one day some excavating creature somewhere would mine it and try to harness the immortal power that radiated from within. That could never happen, of course. It would be too dangerous. Surely the race had yet to be born that could be so foolish as to attempt to unleash the power of uranium? "

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17 " The Greek word for 'everything that is the case', what we could call 'the universe', is COSMOS. And at the moment - although 'moment' is a time word and makes no sense just now (neither does the phrase 'just now') - at the moment, Cosmos is Chaos and only Chaos because Chaos is the only thing that is the case. "

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18 " The seeding of Gaia gave us meaning, a germination of thought into shape. Seminal semantic semiology from the semen of the sky. "

― , Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

19 " Whatever the truth, science today agrees that everything is destined to return to Chaos. It calls this inevitable fate entropy: part of the great cycle from Chaos to order and back again to Chaos. "

― , Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

20 " Poseidon spent almost all his time pursuing a perfectly exhausting quantity of beautiful girls and boys and fathering by the girls an even greater number of monsters, demigods and human heroes - Percy Jackson and Theseus to name but two. "

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