02-09-2012, 06:11 AM
Quote:We've been talking about the need for going back and back for a while now and I can't help but be reminded of the function of the proemium/invocatio caminae in traditional Greek narrative epic.
Andra moi ennepe mousa polutropon...
tell unto me O muse of the clever man...because if you don't tell me where to begin I'll have to start with the creation and work my way down to him. :lol:
As they say, "Start at the beginning" :lol:
Edit: I am reminded of the scene in the film Airplane! when the guy says "start at the beginning" and the other guy says "well, first there were the dinosaurs.." :lol: :lol:
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Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad