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FREEDOM is a central concept in Greek literature. from the very beginning. Centuries before the birth of democracy, Homer has Odysseus tell us that "Zeus takes away half a man's manhood that day he makes him a slave." Athens warred for decades to preserve its most sacred possession- elcutheria -freedom. For two millennia, Greek freedom has served as a paradigm for western nations. Certainly, the view of freedom in the Athens of the Golden Age is highly romanticized-for many were, in fact, still slaves-but it was in Athens that large-scale political freedom first existed. Therefore...
...epoch to come. That will be the labor of many brains and many hands, yet the spirit of man is not many but one, and its inner sonorities are a golden lyre which can cause the very stones to stir at the touch of Amphion, son of Zeus. For we are all sons of Zeus in that we are all created to be creators...
...Boston Pops in the place of the Boston Symphony, like Whirl in the place of Zeus, creates a world of unreality where reason existed before...
...falsifying his self-esteem. He is finely aware of what is owed to the self as warrior, yet he attempts to dissolve this self in allegiance to something greater. He scorns the esteem of men, for the honor which only the gods can confide. He will have honor from Zeus. His vision is the expression of his inner gloriousness. The Hiad presents us with two central heroic requirements: towering ardor of will, and a vision of immensity. The former loves the world, the latter seeks to scorn it. The ardor of will (not simply pride) demands action; the vision involves...
...self. Antony and Cleopatra are Achilles and heaven brought to earth in West and East. The struggle to be worthy of the gods has become in Shakespeare the strong toil of grace to be worthy of beloved person from another world. Achilles's "I will have honor from Zeus" has become "The nobleness of life is to do thus." In the scene of Antony's shame (III, xi) his loss of command is associated with the loss of the brilliant light of glorious action...