Shane Mage wrote:
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> But also, I believe, reference to the
> interplanetary electric discharges that Plato (in Timaios)
> suggested were the "truth" behind the seeming myth of
> Phaeton's destruction by a thunderbolt and that Seneca
> (in Thyestes) called "that hand [of Jupiter] by which the
> threefold mass of mountains fell." Beyond which, I
> apprehend a much deeper cosmology--the suggestion
> that the whole universe is to be comprehended as an
> electrical, rather than a gravitational, phenomenon.
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The following is quoted (in Greek) at the end of Canto 71 (Pound), and I have a translation of it scribbled in my copy. (Probably from some commentary.) I think its from Aeschylus: "Glorious, deathless of many names, Zeus aye ruling all things, founder of the inborn qualities of nature, by laws piloting all things>' Since Zeus not only held the thunderbolt but in some sense _was_ the thunderbolt, does not that last phrase sound an awful lot like "Thunderbolt steers all things"?
Right now I can't even remember the greek alphabet well enough to transliterate the greek.
Carrol