The Unexamined Life
is Not Worth Living - Socrates
NewFoundationsPress
c/o Gary K Clabaugh, Ed.D.
edited 1/28/22
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The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living - Socrates |
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Odysseus
Seeks To Question the "Flittering Shade" of
Teiresias
Perimedes
and Eurylochus restrained the sacrificial victims
while I drew my sharp sword from its sheath, and with
it dug a pit two foot square, then poured a libation
all around to the dead, first of milk and honey, then
of sweet wine, thirdly of water, … Then I prayed devoutly to the powerless ghosts of the departed, ... When, with prayers and vows, I had invoked the hosts of the dead, I led the sheep to the pit and cut their throats, so the dark blood flowed. . Then the ghosts of the dead swarmed out of Erebus – brides, and young men yet unwed, old men worn out with toil, girls once vibrant and still new to grief, and ranks of warriors slain in battle, showing their wounds from bronze-tipped spears, their armour stained with blood. Round the pit from every side the crowd thronged, with strange cries, and I turned pale with fear. Then I called to my comrades and told them to flay and burn the sheep killed by the pitiless bronze; … I myself, drawing my sharp sword from its sheath, sat there preventing the powerless ghosts from drawing near to the blood, till I might question Teiresias. -- Ghosts of Erebus, -- Homer (trans.Tony Kline 2004) |
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