On Aug 6, 2009, at 6:30 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
> At 09:23 AM 8/6/2009, Chris Doss wrote:
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>> I actually went line by line through the text.... Interestingly,
>> there is no instance in which such a passion is a "stimulus" caused
>> by a divine entity.
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> Except that the choice to go to war in the first place, and then
> meet a glorious end that will be celebrated in deathless song is
> "stimulated" by divine desire.
Except that Achilles did *not* choose to go to war. On the contrary, he hid disguised as a girl. He was unmasked by the "crafty" Odysseus (who himself went to war only under human compulsion), not by any god.
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos