or guard like a prison and this is as itself σωμα for the soul until the penalty is paid (Cratylus 400c)
those who in their contempt of mankind bewitch so many of the living by pretense of evoking the dead (Laws XI 909b)
and the promise of winning over the gods by the supposed sorceries of prayer, sacrifice, and incantations (Laws XI 909b)
shall receive from the turnkeys the strict rations prescribed by the curators of the laws (Laws XI 909c)
for some say it is the tomb σημα sign of the soul ... is undergoing punishment for something ... as an enclosure to keep it safe, like a prison (Cratylus 400c)
I begin twisting and coiling strips of paper into a shape which I refer to as the wrapping. The wrapping serves as the core from which the sculpture (cover) emerge (wood lath H 20 x W 20 in - present)
Teiresias: when you learn the sights recognized by my art you will understand ... it is never sweeter to learn from a good counselor ... counsels to your benefit
unlike an ordinary string which is itself of molecules and atoms, the strings of string theory are purported to lie deep in the heart of matter (string theorist B Greene)
take me to my death now O sorrowful, such is our future and our pain lies deep under pain piled over, woe lies on top of woe (Troades 593-597)
quite true, then not one who is to be an intelligent judge of any representation, whether in drawing, in music, or in any other branch of art, have three qualifications?
he must understand first, what the object reproduced is, next, how correctly, third and last, how well a given representation has been effected, in point of language, melody, or rhythm (Laws 669a-b)
a deception in which the one who deceives is more honest, and he who is deceived is wiser than he who is not deceived (Yoryiaς 483-375 BCE)
do their best ... ruin individuals ... communities .... the law shall direct the court to sentence a culprit convicted of belonging to this class to incarceration in the central prison (Laws XI 909bc)
I'd like to smack a kiss upon that cheek, to plant a kiss we'd damn well have to peel away that shell like a hard-boiled egg (Birds 673-76)
oh, do bring her out from where she hides, we as well would like to see the nightingale, know what? I'd give a lot to spread those legs (Birds 670)
when painters complete out of many colors and objects a single object and form, they please the eyes ... the creation of sculptures provides a pleasant disease for the eyes (Yorgioς 483-375 BCE)
able to make both the thing to be imitated and the phantom ... to be serious about the crafting of phantoms ... life as the best thing? (Politeia 599a)
rise stricken head ... unlucky woman that I am ... what should I wrap in silence ... not wrap ... my tears' song ... wretchedness (TW 98-121)
with the layers of covers satisfying the wrappings need for concealment, protection and solitude. (wood lath)
since strings are so small, not only can they vibrate in large extended dimensions, they can also vibrate in ones that are tiny and curled up (B Greene)
who are you? who will not let me lie? who disturbs my wretchedness? why? (Eκabe 500-504) (wood lath)
upon who the counsellor Zeus bestowed the greatest honor, Clotho and Lachesis and Atropos who give to mortal beings both good and evil (Theogonia 902-03)
breeze ... swift sea-going ships over the swelling deep where will you take me in my misery? .... in a strange land bear the name of slave ... chambers of the grave (Eκabe 450-81)
restrained within custody all alone oscillating strings tears blood pharmaκ the soul of the archetypal sufferer - cursed mother, cruel Fate!
and an evil plan is most evil for the planned Zeus' eye which sees all things and knows all things, perceives this too (Works and Days 265-66)
Daughter's of Necessity, Fates, Lachesis, Clotho and Atropos sing the Sirens' harmony, Lachesis of what has been, Clotho of what is, and Atropos of what is going to be (Politeia 617 bc)
Clotho puts her right hand to the outer revolution of the spindle and joins in turning it, ceasing it from time to time, and Atropos with her left hand does the same to the inner ones ... in turn (Politeia 617c)
oh, do bring her out from where she hides, we as well would like to see the nightingale know what? I'd give a lot to spread those legs (Birds 670) wood lath 28 x 22 inches, 2024
the wrapping serves as the core from which the sculpture (cover) emerges with the layers of covers satisfying the wrapping's need for concealment (wood lath, 2024)
the sculptures are made almost entirely of construction materials and debris gathered from dumpsters throughout Brooklyn (wood lath, 2024)
restrained within custody all alone of not this world - tears blood pharmaκi - the soul of the archetypal sufferer cursed mother cruel Fate!
banishing threnody by therapy - ιατρικη θρηνωδιαν αφανιζοντα - make unseen cause to vanish hide remove destroy annihilate disfigure deface disappear deface disappear cease
... the part of us that leads us to dwell in memory on our suffering, to lamentation, and cannot get enough of that is the irrational part of us, of cowardice? (Politeia 605b)
Homer is the most poetic of poets and the first of tragedians, but we must know the truth, we cannot admit no poetry into the city save only hymns to the gods, praises to good men (wood lath 2024)
we really had good reasons then for dismissing her from our city, since such was her character, for reason constrained us (Politeia 607b) (wood lath, 2024)
Wordsworth, "A Poet's Epitaph" Philosopher! A fingering slave, One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave (wood lath, 2024)
and let us further say to her, lest she condemn us for harshness and rusticity, that there is from of old a quarrel, between philosophy and poetry (Politeia 607b) wood lath, 2024
even deny perspectivity that fundamental condition of all life ... wicked Soκrateς corrupt him after all? .... and deserved his hemlock? (Beyond Good and Evil) top 23 x 21" wood lath
rejoiced greatly in her breast ... ambush concealing ... jagged shark toothed sickle and she explained the whole trick ... reaped the genitals ... threw them behind (Theogonia 173-83) wood lath, H 28 x W 20 inches 2024
showed it ... encouraging them ... grieved in her heart 'children of mine and of a wicked father ... if you wish ... avenge your father's evil outrage' (Theogonia 164-65) H 28 x W 22"
Athene helping ... stratagem ... their fate to perish when their city should enclose δουρατεον μεγαν made of wood ... death ... hollow hiding place (Οdyssey VIII 493-513) wood lath H 28 x W 22"
do not you yourself feel her magic and especially where Homer is her interpreter? then may she not justly return from this exile after she has pleaded her defense iii lyric or other measure?
and we would allow her advocates who are not poets but lovers of poetry to plead her cause in prose without meter
and show that she is not only delightful but beneficial to orderly government and all the life of man (Politeia 607d) wood lath, H 29 x W 20 inches, 2024
but as long as she is unable to make good her defense, we shall chant over to ourselves as we listen the reasons that we have given as a counter-charm to her spell ...
for we have come to see that we must not take such poetry seriously as a serious thing that lays hold to truth
but that he who lends an ear to it must be on his guard fearing for the polity in his soul and must believe what we have said about poetry ... for great is the struggle (Politeia 608c)
a child ... born ... no manner or means are they to take pity ... there is an oracle that the city will be destroyed ... have you some devise for persuading this tale? (Politeia 415b-c)
"I agree with you" he replied, "in view of what we have set forth, and I think that anyone else would do so too" (Politeia 607c) wood lath 2024
dragged it up to the height of the city ... dedication to the gods ... city was destined to be destroyed ... δουρατεον μεγαν made of wood (Odyssey VIII 504-12) wood lath H 28 x W 19"
'προτερος ... μησατο εργα ... he was the first to devise hateful deeds' she spoke but dread seized them ... 'Mother I would promise ... our evil-named father ... μησατο εργα' (Theogonia 166-172)
I'd like to smack that cheek, plant a kiss, we'd damn well have to peel away that shell like a hard boiled egg (Birds 673-576) wood lath H 28 x W 18" 2024
she suffered ... hate him ... love ... fear caused by sight ... madness ... persuaded by speech or seized by force or compelled by divine Necessity in every case she escapes the accusation (Yoryias)
pregnant with weapons by the devising of Pallas ... image meant for ruin ... men of later times call it the δουρειος wooden ιππος horse ... hid spears within the belly (TW 9-14) wood lath H 30 x W 23"
were hated by their own father from the beginning ... rejoiced in his evil deed ... κακην ... τεχνης ... groaned within for she was constricted and she devised a tricky evil stratagem ... created (Theogonia 160-61)
when Justice is dragged where men ... verdicts ... crooked injustice ... weeping she visits a city wrapped in invisibility ... evil to those who drive her out snd do not deal straight (Works and Days 218-242)
wood lath, H 21 x 19 inches, 2024
H 20 x 20 inches, wood lath, 2024
did not sever the windpipe ... exchange of words spoken: 'I know you well ... I could not persuade you ... in your breast is a heart of iron ... be careful now ... I might be made into the gods' wrath' (Iliad 22. 327, 355-58)
he swung up in his mighty hand and sped the long spear warrior-slaying, wrought by Chiron, and above the right breast pierced ... and the red blood leapt forth
dropped the great battle-axe from her nerveless hand; a mist of darkness overviewed her eyes, and anguish thrilled her soul., yet even so still drew she difficult breath (The Fall of Troy, Bk 1)
'I carry two sorts of destiny toward the day of my death either, if I stay there and fight beside the city of Troy, my return home is gone, but my glory shall be everlasting' (Iliad 9.410-12)
straightway fell she down into the dust of earth, the arms of death, in grace and comeliness fell, for naught of shame dishonored her fair form, face down she lay
on the long spear outgasping her last breath, stretched upon the fleet horse as on a couch ... all her shattered strength brought down to this, and all her loveliness (The Fall of Troy BK I, Quintus Smyrnaeus)
from battle all those Trojans wept for her, the child of the resistless war-god, wept for friends who died in groan-resounding fight, then over her with scornful laugh ... vaunted
'in the dust lie there a prey to teeth of dogs, to ravens' beaks, thou wretched thing ... come forth against me? and thoughts thou to fare home from the war alive'
'I entreat you, by your life, by your knees, by your parents, do not let the dogs feed on me by the ships of the Achaians, but take yourself the bronze and gold that are there in abundance'
'to bear with thee right royal gifts from Priam the old king ... twas not the immortals who inspired thee with this thought, who know that I of heroes mightiest am' (Fall of Troy)
'no more entreating me ... not if they bring me here and set me before me ten times and twenty times the ransom, and promise more in addition ((Iliad 22.338-353)
' the darkness shrouded Fates and thine own folly of soul that pricked thee to leave the works of women, and to fare to war, from which strong men shrink shuddering back'
with love's remorse to have slain a thing so sweet, who might have borne her home, his queenly bride, to chariot glorious Phthia; for she was flawless (The Fall of Troy)
flawless, a very daughter of the Gods, divinely tall, and most divinely fair' then Ares' heart was thrilled with grief and rage for his child slain (The Fall of Troy, BK 1)
wood wire string leather paper cloth 2024
H 49" x W 36 x D 16" wood wire string leather paper cloth (present)
H 21 x D 7" 2024, Rose Glow Burberry branches and Osage Orange tree thorns
bear not to see a suppliant by force lead from these statues, seized by my garments (Suppliant Women 428-433) plaster wire cloth paper scarf
the soul of the archetypal sufferer - burns to evil beauty - CURSED MOTHER, CRUEL FATE! MOIRAI (H 23" x W 13" xD 7")
while the men behind her, hitting her with their spear butts on the back and shoulders, force her up and lead her away into slavery, to have hard work and sorrow (Odyssey 527-530)
there was Chaos at first and Darkness and Night and Tartarus vastly and dismal but the earth was not there nor the Sky nor the Air (Birds 695)
since all matter and all forces are proposed to arise from one basic ingredient: oscillating strings ... string theory once again radically changes our understanding of spacetime (B Greene)
what shall the poet say what words shall he describe upon your monument? 'here lies a little child the Archives killed?' ... epitaph of Greek shame (TW 1188-1191) paper cloth plaster wire 19 x 13 x 6" 2024
the ancient theologians and seers also bear witness that because of certain punishments the soul is yoked to the body and buried in it as in a tomb (Philolaus of Tarentum)
we must, in beginning our fresh account of the Universe make more distinctions than we did before, then we distinguished two Forms, we must declare another third kind (Timaeus 49c)
two were sufficient ... a Model Form, intelligible and uniformly existent, the second as the model's Copy, subject to becoming and visible ... third .. reveal by words a Form baffling and obscure (Timaeuς 48e-49)
where she was playing with Pharmaceia; and once she was killed that way people said she had been carried off by Boreas- or was it, perhaps, from the Areopagus? (Phaedrus 229d)
From lyric poetry come the following lines of Simonides ... written out not in the metrical divisions established by Aristophanes or someone else but in the divisions demanded by prose (wood wire tin leather tape)
Pay attention to the song and read it according to divisions, and take my word for it that the poem's rhythm will escape you (wood wire leather tape tin)
she like a hawk came sweeping down from the snows of Olympos and carryied with her the shining armour, the gifts of Hephaistos (Iliad XVIII 615-6) tin wire tape wood 17 x 22 x 8"
you will be unable to make out strophe, antistrophe or epode and will think it rather one continuous piece of prose (wood wire leather)
as great is the bottom ... cargo carrying ... well skilled in carpentry ... size of a broad raft ... fitting them close ... keep the water out (Odyssey V 249-50) 20 x 26 x 6"
when in the intricately-carved chest the blasts of wind and the troubled water prostrated her in fear, with streaming cheeks she put her loving arms about Perseus and said:
tell me Sokrates, isn't it from somewhere near this stretch of the Ilisus that people say Boreas carried Oreithuia away? (Phaedrus 229B)
It is Danae being carried over the sea and bewailing her fate (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On Literary Composition) (tape wire wood pressed tin electrical wire leather)
Actually, it would not be out of place for me to reject it, as our intellectuals do. I could then tell a clever story: I could claim that a gust of the north Wind blew her over the rocks
as long as the timbers hold together and the construction remains, I will stay with it and endure though sufferings hardships but once the heaving sea has shaken my raft to pieces I will swim (Odyssey V 360-04)
You pay no attention to the deep spray above your hair as the wave passes by nor to the sound of the wind, lying in your purple blanket, a lovely face (Simonides of Keos)
Yes, wonders are many, but then too, many I think, in men's talk, stories are embellished beyond true account and deceive by elaborate lies (Pindar, Olympian 1, 28b) wood wire plaster
then it looks like we are pretty well agreed on these things; the imitator knows nothing worth mentioning about what he imitates (Politeia) wood plaster 25 x 8"
the creation of sculptures provides a pleasant disease for the eyes ... give distress for the eyes and others pleasure for the sight (Yoryiaς)
therefore with respect to beauty and badness, the imitator will neither know nor opine rightly about what he imitates (Politeia)
we know how to say many lies ψευδεα πολλα similar to genuine ones, but we know, when we wish, how to proclaim true things (Theogonia 22) wood wire plaster
.... Muses ... all together ... voice sing of the gods ... human sufferings ... unable to find a remedy for death ... dance holding each other's wrists (To Apollo 184-93) wood plaster wire 24 x 15 x 8" 2021
imitation is a kind ofd play and not serious, and those who take up tragic poetry in iambics and in epic are all imitations in the highest possible degree (Politeia 602a-b)
toward which is painting directed in each case-toward imitation of the being as it is or toward its looking as it looks? is it imitation of looks or of truth? (Politeia 598b)
move nimbly with their feet, starting out from there, shrouded in thick invisibility, by night they walk, sending forth their very beautiful voice, singing of aegis-holding Zeus, and queenly Hera of Argos (Theogonia 8-10)
unhappy woman raise your head κεφαλην from the ground ... αιαι ... woe ... groan ... what lament is there that I cannot utter unlucky woman that I am (TW 99-113)
I saw her die and getting down καταβασα from the wagon seat covered her with a robe πεπλος and mourned the corpse νεκρον (Troades 325-337) Terracotta statuette 'Emaciated Woman' Greek, Asia Minor, Smyrna 1st c. BCE
I too claim to be of your race and I have paid the penalty ... now a suppliant I come to noble Persephone that she may be kind and send me to the pure (Orpheus pre-Homeric) wood plaster string wire 45 x W 8"
the deliberate burning κατασροφη της Σμυρνης μεγαλη πυκραγια began on September 13-September 22, 1922, 'The Women of Smyrna'
smoke winged in the sky halls hot in the swept fire ... collapse to the dear ground and be nameless ... mourn for the ruined city, then go away to the ships of the Achaeans (TW 1297-1332)
'κοπελες του Αουσβιτς ... μην ειδατε την αγαπη μου' 'την ειδαμε ... με ενα αριθμο στό ασπρο της το χέρι μέ κιτρινο αστρο στην καρδια (Asma Asmaton, I Kambanellis)
the red flame ... smoke ash ... blot from my sight the house where I lived once ... shaking, trembling limbs, this is the way forward into the slave's life (TW 1328-30)
let it be our apology that it was then fitting for us to send her away from the city on account of her character the argument determined us ... lest it convict us for a certain harshness (Politeia 607b)
fill heaven forever always αει θρηνοιση threnody goos ... rigid fate allotted to me by an unnamed force στερρον ... δαιμον ... yolked ... slavery δουλειον (Andromache 91-99)
city down to Hades ... into slavery young and old women alike, pulled by the locks of their hair as if they were horses held by the mane (Seven Against Thebes 321-22)
leaving me to be a slave in the light oh wretchedness ... oh gods where can I go? where shall I die? (Eκabe 415-19) 39 x 14 x 10" 2021 wire metal screen string wood plaster
their veils all ripped and torn ... wails in many different voices of laments ... I am afraid in advance of the heavy doom that is to be (Seven Against Thebes 321-32)
for our arguments about this city and the man like it? for surely it'd plain what sort of man we'll say he has to be (Politeia 541a)
we saw her on a long journey ... she was no longer wearing her dress neither the little barrette ... with a number on her ασπρο hand ... κιτρινο αστρο (Asma Asmaton, I Kambanellis)
she grieved in her heart ... with veiled head ... dark robe swirled around the slender feet of the goddess ... voiceless ... Iambe jested with her (To Demetran 181-202)
and they lead us away from the land as slaves δούλας hear me gods! but why do I call upon the gods? they did not listen before when we called upon them (TW 1279-81)
black καπνος smoke might I be bordering clouds of Zeus invisible completely as unseen dust might I end my existence and die (Ικετιδες The Suppliant Women 779-82)
once again and never after this come close to your mother lean against my breast and wind your arms around my neck and put your lips against my lips (TW 761-63)
evils never to be forgotten rip your faces strike your heads with hands χειρός that beat like oars moving your hands in rhythm ιώ μοί μοι Ah me! (TW 1235-37)
I struck my breast blows in the stroke-style of the Αριον εν τε Iranian Kissias mourning wailing my arms stretch out hitting and grasping beating thick and fast (Choephoroi 423-26)
divinely possesses you cry forth... sing your own death song ... for Itys ... over and over ...her long life of tears αιωνα weeping forever αηδονος nightingale (Agamemnon 1140-1145) 10 x 9 x 1 1/2" 2021
Justice herself will not blame us we shall save the city ... men of another ... ridicule over philosophy seeing her reviled spattered ... those who are responsible (Politeia 536b-c)
as she listened ... tears ... her body was melted as the χιων snow melts along the high mountains ... West ... South Wind ... streaming tears (Odyssey XIX 205-08)
section #5 remove old cement and repoint with mixture of sand and cement 42 x 113"
.whose daughter is this, who was her mother, and who was the father that begat her? speak out, for on seeing her I pitied her most among these women only she knows how to feel (The Women of Trachis 309-313) wood string plaster
for a terrible sense of pity came over me, my friends, when I saw these ill-fated women wandering homeless, fatherless, in a foreign land (The Women of Trachis 298-302)
images of Daedalus ... none in your country? ... not fastened ... runaway slave ... process is recollection ... fastened they turn into knowledge ... abiding ... transcends the other by trammels (Meno 97d-98a)
while the men behind her hitting her on the back and the shoulders and force her up and lead her away into slavery ... hard work and sorrow ... pitiful weeping (Odyssey VIII 526-30)
before they were, perhaps, the daughters of free men, but now they shall have to pass their lives as slaves (The Women of Trachis 301-02) wood, string, plaster approx., 72 x 7 x 7"
O Zeus, who turns the tide of battle, grant that I may never see you come like this against my children, and if you will come, at least not while I am alive this is the fear I feel when I look at them (The Women of Trachis 303-06)
O unfortunate girl, tell me who you are, are you married? are you a mother? to judge by your looks, you have never known treatment like this, but you are someone noble (The Women of Trachis 307-10)
perhaps in birth she is not among the humblest of their land, I do not know, I made no long interrogation, I performed my task in silence (317-19)
then so tell us yourself, poor woman, for it would be a shame not to know who you are
I choose you my interpreter to read these dreams, so it may happen, now you must rehearse your side in their parts and for some, this means the parts they must not play (Choeforoi 551-53)
first I saw Tyro ... after her Antiope ... Amphitryon ... Megara ... Epiκaste ... in ignorance of her mind ... Phaidra ... Eriphyle the hateful (Odyssey XI 235-326) wood plaster rope wire cloth H 62-72' x D 7 x 8"
the terror of Necessity, I lost Kassandra roughly torn from my arms by force before you came, there is no numbering my losses, infinitely misfortune comes to outrace misfortune known before (TW 617-621)
I struck my breast in the stroke-style of the Arian, the Cissian mourning woman, and the hail-beatof the drifting fists was there to see
aa the rising pace went in a pattern of blows downward and upward until the crashing strokes played on my hammered, all-stricken head (Choeforoi 423-28)
to take the lot of slaves, and mine it is to wrench my will, and consent to their commands, right or wrong, to beat down my edged hate ... freeze with sorrow in the secret heart (Choeforoi 78-84)
the protection of your image is failing me! he is taking me by force to the sea coming step by step ... a dream ... ototototoi
he is raging close to me ... stares at me what noxious beast ... I am in the grip of agony ototototoi ... the fearsome assailant
we're done for ... we're being treated unspeakably! αναξ, πασχομεν (Suppliants 885-908)
I would not take away the lives of these creatures by any clean death (Odyssey XXII 460-63) 47-78 x 4 x 1" paper cloth wire
this difference is the key to string theory's success in merging gravity and quantum mechanics (plaster wire 47-78 x 4 x 1")
so there heads were all in a line and each had her neck caught fast in a noose so that their death would be most pitiful, they struggled with their feet for a little, not for very long (Odyssey XXII 470- 72)
nomoς when red drops spill upon the ground ... death act calls ... Ερινυν ... those who were slain before now ruin upon ruin accomplished (Choeforoi lines 400-04 by Aisκhyloς c. 525-c. 456 BCE)
what can wash off the blood once spilled upon the ground? O hearth soaked in sorrow O wreckage of a fallen house (Choeforoi 48-50)
Apollo then and now unjust to her ... the absent woman whose complaints are here you did not save the child ... no answer for its mother ... all of us are hated (Ion 384-99)
Greek cleverness is simple barbarity why kill this child who never did you any harm? ... gods damn us to death ... I have no strength to save my boy (TW 765-776) plaster string wood cloth wire lath 20 x 6 x 5" 2021
poor Mother ... broken hearted life of pain! ... what god could make you suffer ... such grief in one poor life (Eκabe 198-210) 18 x 13" 2020
and you must see my death ... with fright ... gasping of life goes out and sinks downward into dark with the inconsolable dead it is you I pity mother (Eκabe 198-210)
wait the wind favor in the sails, yet when the ship goes out from this shore, she carries one of the three Furies in my shape (TW 455-57) 25 x 15 x 15 cardboard wood wire plaster cloth
let your feet dance rippling the air let go the chorus ... sacred circle of dance lead now Apollo ... χαρευε ματερ ... dance mother dance laugh lead (TW 325-337) 2022
lest it convict us for a certain harshness ... signs of this old opposition ... just for it to come back in this way ... an apology in lyrics ... meter... we shall listen benevolently (Politeia 607b-d) 17 x 12 x 4" wire wood roofing paper
until you come at last to Pallas' citadel kneel there clasp the ancient idol in your arms and there you will find those who will judge the case (Eumenides 79-82) Alecto the Goddess of Vengeance (Furies) paper cloth plaster rubber tubing wire 2022
the biggest lie how Ouranos did what Hesiod says he did ... even if they were true ... few as possible ought to hear them as unspeakable secrets after making a sacrifice not of a pig (Politeia 377e-78a) (Theogonia 154)
here to the goddess' shrine I come a suppliant clutching melting ... tears (Andromache 115) paper plaster wire rubber tubing veil 24 x 9 x 8" 2022, child of Gaia and Ouranos, Goddess of Vengeance (avenging murder)
back from the pit of the dead, from the somber door that opens into hell, where no god goes, I have come, the ghost (Eκabe 1-3) paper cloth wire 13 x 7 x 4" 2021
unburied, unmourned, I asked of the gods ... find my mother and be buried by her hands and they have granted my request, I see my mother coming, stumbling (Eκabe 49-50)
in the bosom abysmal of Darkness an egg from whirlwind conceived was laid by the sable plumed Night and out of that egg as the Seasons revolved (Birds 696)
my corpse still lies carried up and down on the heaving swell of the sea unburied and unmourned, disembodied now (Eκabe 26-30)
and destiny shall take my sister down to death and you poor mother, you must see your two children dead this day, my sister slaughtered (Ekabe 43-47)
heart torn inside its covering (Od. XIII 320) endure my heart ... had worse to endure before ... intelligence got you out of the cave (Od.XX 18-21) speeches ... endurance (Politeia 390d)
unless your prayers prevent her death, unless your pleas can keep her safe, then you shall see your child face downward on the earth (Ekabe 147-151)
and the stain in the black earth spread as the red blood drops from the gleaming golden chain that lies broken at her throat (Eκabe 152-55)
detail of The Polyxena Sarcophagus Late 6th century BCE from Hellespontine Phrygia
still shaken by that dream in which she saw my ghost ... shorn of greatness, pride, and everything but life, which leaves you slavery and bitterness and lonely age (Eκabe 52-57)
and my unburied body washed up on shore at the feet of a slave ... some god destroys you now exacting in your suffering the cost for having once been happy in this life (Εκabe 47-60)
were in truth a knower of these things would be far more serious about the deeds than the imitations and would try to leave many fair deeds behind as memorials (Politeia 599b)
according to string theory, the elementary ingredients of the universe are not point particles ... they are like tiny, one dimensional filaments ... vibrating to and fro (theoretical physicist B Greene)
murdered me and threw my body to the sea, there, pounded by the surf my corpse still lies carried up and down on the heaving swell of the sea (Eκabe 27-29) paper cloth wire 13 x 7 x 4" 2021
bury me quickly let me pass through the gates of Hades ... will not let me cross the river and mingle with them ... I wander ... once you give me my rite of burning (Iliad XXIII 70-6)
supervise the nursing ... full of milk ... inventing every devise so that none will recognize her own ... supervise the mothers ... suckle only a moderate time ... born of those in their prime (Politeia 460d)
the daughter of Pandareos, the tremulous nightingale sings beautifully ... varied melody mourning ... own beloved child ... killed with bronze when the madness was on her (Od. 19.515-534)) Alcamenes 430 BCE
where is Praxiteles ... hands of Polyκlitoυ which endowed ancient works of art with life ... carvers in stone ... beauty like an image of the blessed gods ought to have a temple (The Greek Anthology)
how string theory meshes quantum mechanics and general relativity is that the fabric of space on the Planck scale resembles a lattice or a grid (B Greene) sculptures may or may not be grouped together
a theory with the capacity unify and all forces by describing everything in terms of vibrating strings ... an ultramicroscopic realm (theoretical physicist B Greene)
physicists have invented analogous images to try to convey the meaning of "warped time" but they are significantly more difficult to decipher (B Greene)
she brushed it away ... as lightly as when a mother brushes a fly away from her child who is lying in sweet sleep steering herself the arrow's course straight ... gushed ... dark blood (Iliad IV 130-40)
that nothing is and if something is it is unknowable ουκ ειναι φησιν ... if something both is and is knowable it cannot be indicated to other people (On Nonbeing or On Nature)
the "space" between the grid lines outside the bounds of physical reality ... on the ultramicroscopic scales ... leaps from one strand of space to another (theoretical physicist B Greene)
matter racing this way and that produces gravitational waves ... waves that travel through space ... travel within space ... traveling distortions in the geometry of space (theoretical physicist B Greene)
an essential lesson of general relativity is that mass and energy cause the fabric of spacetime to warp as illustrated ripples undulate through its fabric when matter moves to and fro ...
some scientists argue vociferously that a theory so removed from direct empirical testing lies in the realm of philosophy or theology, not physics (Brian Greene)
you robbed me of my life and then you give me a tomb but you hide me you don't bury me may you have the same tomb (anonymous sepulchral epigram) 33 x 27 x 28" wood, present
on it he wrought the beauty of two cities of mortal men and there were marriages in one ... people were assembled in the market place where a quarrel had arisen (Iliad XVIII 490-98)
two ... disputing over the blood price ... had been killed one man promised full restitution in a public statement but the other refused ... both then made for an arbitrator (Iliad XVIII 498-501)
on his death I ceased from the dance and rested my light foot ποδα here (Greek Anthology II #37-DIOSCORIDES)
this is the tomb of Sophocles which I, his holy servant, received from the Muses as a holy trust to guard
taking me from Phlius where I was carved of holly-oak and still trod the tribulum, wrought me into a creature of gold and clothed me in fine purple.
as when rafters lock when a renowned architect has fitted them in the roof of a high house to keep out the force of the winds' spite ... stress of violent hands that tugged ... blood (Iliad XXIII 711-17)
but as two ... with measuring ropes in their hands fight bitterly about a boundary line at the meeting place ... fight in the strait place over the rights of division (Iliad XII 421-23)
which the carpenter once had expertly planed and drawn it true to a chalkline (Odyssey XVII 341) planing it ... well and expertly trued it straight to a chalkline (Odyssey XXIII 197)
they use visible forms and make their arguments about them, not thinking about them but about those others that they are like? ... arguments of the square itself
and the diagonal itself, not for the sake of the diagonal they draw, and likewise with the rest, things that they mold and draw, of which there are shadows and images in water
they now use as images, seeking to see those things themselves, that one can see in no other way than with thought (Politeia VI 510d)
in front of her rapid wing-footed Iris ... swept up to the sky ... and Athene made a place for her Hera put into her hand a beautiful golden goblet and spoke to her to comfort (Iliad XXIV 94-102) top: approx., 16 x 16" wood
decorations in the heaven must be used as pattern for the sake of learning just as if one were to come upon diagrams drawn and worked out by Daedalus or some other craftsman or painter (Politeia 529d) (18 x 22" wood)
these decorations in the heaven may be believed to be the fairest and most precise of such things, but they fall short of the true ones ... they must be grasped by argument and thought, not sight (Politeia 529d) 18 x 21" wood
then won't the man who has intelligence strain all his powers to that end as long as he lives honoring the studies that will make his soul such, while despising the rest? wood 21 x 22 x 21" top 16 x 16"
compare to spacetime Penrose diagram ... at infinity ... analytically extended Schwarzschild black hole ... light rays move at 45 degree from the upward vertical points (jilt. Colorado.edu) wood 1/2-3"
as the eyes are fixed on astronomy, so the ears are fixed on harmonic movement, and those two kinds of knowledge are in a way akin, as the Pythagoreans say (Politeia 530d) approx., 1/2-3"
he made the earth upon it and the sky and the sea's water ... who turns about in a fixed place and looks at Orion and she alone is never plunged in the wash of the Ocean (Iliad XVIII 483-89)
and we, Glaucon, agree or what shall we do? since it's a big job, we'll inquire of the Pythagoreans what they mean about them and if there is anything else beside them (Politeia 530e)
hail priest of pedantic prattle ... two ethereal experts ... Prodicus ... and you ... strut around like a grand gander, roll your eyes, go barefoot to endure all and hold such high opinions (Clouds 359-63) wood top approx., 1/2-3"
and there were young men on it and young girls sought for their beauty with gifts ... dancing and holding hands at the wrist, these wore, the maidens long light robes ... fair garlands on their heads (Iliad XVIII 593-97) wood 23 x 8"
and the renowned smith of strong arms made elaborate on it a dancing floor like that which once in the wide spaces of Knosos Daidalus built for Ariadne of the lovely tresses (Od, XVIII 590-92)
dear Homer, if you are not third from the truth about virtue, a craftsman of a phantom, one defined as an imitator ... tell us which of the cities was better governed thanks to you (Politeia 599c)
but the men wore tunics of finespun work and shining softly, touched with olive oil and the girls wore fair garlands on their heads (Od. XVIII 595-97) wood 23 x 10"
as Lacedaemon was thanks to Lycurgus, and many others, both great and small, were thanks to many others? What city gives you credit for having proved a good lawgiver and benefitted them? (Politeia 599e)
while among the dancers two acrobats led the measures of song and dance revolving among them (Iliad XVIII 594-605)
and among them stepped an inspired singer ... the dancers two acrobats led the measures of song and dance revolving among them (Odyssey IV 17-19) against my will ... forced me (Od. XXII 350-03) 23 x 9"
Italy and Sicily do so for Charondas, and we for Solon, now who does it for you? will you have any to mention? (Politeia 599e)
.... my song I sing αειδω the light of Agido I see it like the sun where Αγιδω Agido summons to appease and μαρτυρεται witness for us (Alcman 7th c. BCE) wood H 22 x 12"
or don't we know that all of this is a prelude to the song itself which must be learned? for surely it's not your opinion that the men who are clever at these things are dialecticians (Politeia 531e)
they would run very lightly ... form rows and run rows crossing each other and around the lovely chorus of dancers stood a great multitude happily watching (Iliad XVIII 599-604)
isn't this the last song itself that dialectic performs? ... realm of the intelligent, initiated by the power of sight ... end of the intelligible realm as that man was then at the end of the visible (Politeia 532a) wood, top 12 x 11"
this Syracusian had better exhibit his dancing girl to the State, and say that, if the Athenians pay him a fee, he will make all of them bold enough to charge on spears?
did you see how, beautiful as the boy is, he nevertheless looks even more beautiful in the figures of the dance than when he is keeping still?
I've noticed something else too, that in the dance no part of his body was idle: neck, legs and arms were exercised together, just the sort of dancing to develop suppleness of the body
or is this why you're laughing, because my stomach is larger than it should be and I want to reduce it to a more normal size? don't you know Charmides here caught me dancing at daybreak? (Xenophon dinner-party 2.8-2.19)
you seem to me to call the habit of geometers and their likes thought and not intelligence, indicating that thought is something between opinion and intelligence (Politeia 511d)
and other things akin to them in each kind of inquiry, they make hypotheses and don't think it worthwhile to give any further account of them in themselves or others (Politeia 510c)
I suppose you know that the men who work in geometry, calculations, and the like treat as known the odd and the even, the figures, three forms of angles,
and women of old and sing a song that charms the people ... mimic all people's voices ... babble anyone might think it was he himself speaking so well is their singing constructed (To Apollo 157-8) wood H 22 x W 21"
as though they were clear to all, they go ahead with their exposition of what remains and end consistently at the object toward which their investigation was directed (Politeia 510d)
Maidens of Delos the servants of the far shooter ... first hymning Apollo and then in turn Leto and Artemis profuse of arrows turn their thoughts to the men (to Apollo 154-57) wood H 26 x 18"
Maidens think of me in the future if ever some long-suffering stranger comes here and asks ... answer ... blind man and he lives in rocky Chios ... songs remain supreme (To Apollo 169-71) wood H 27 x W 22"
don't you also know that they use visible forms besides and make these arguments about them, not thinking about them but about those others that they are like? (Politeia 510d)
and, along with me, take these four affections arising in the soul in relation to the four segments: intellection in relation to the highest one, and thought in relation to the second,
to the third assign trust, and to the last imagination, arrange them in proportion, that as the segments to which they correspond participate in truth, so that they participate in clarity (Politeia 511d)
end making no use of anything sensed in any way but using forms themselves, going through forms to forms, it ends in forms too (Politeia 511c)
inscription and grave monument of Ampharete found in Karameikos cemetery at Athens. Greek Attic ca. 400-375 BCE, marble, Parian
.... crossing of the sea's waves ... house of the early Dawn her dancing spaces ... Helios ... uprising ... and when young Dawn appeared ... ροδοδάκτυλος (Odyssey XII 1-8) wood 27 x 15"
we must guard ourselves against their tempers the rage of wanton men impious beasts monstrous and profane (Suppliants 762-3) west pediment Temple of Zeus 460 BCE Lapith woman and Centaur
execution finished and the soldiers set to work ... her corpse ... and heaped her pyre ... and now you know it all (Eκabe 571-83)
for through these walls I heard your pitiful weeping and fear shivered in the breasts of the Trojan women who within sob out the day of their slavery (TW 155-58)
into being ... art of this turning ... be turned around ... sight is there but not rightly turned nor looking ... brightest part (Politeia 318c) wood lath H 26 x W 23 x top D 22 x 18" 2019
as a leopard emerges out of her timbered cover to face the man who is hunting her ... spear thrust stuck ... will not give up her fighting ... till ... or is overthrown (Iliad XXI 573-78)
for their city which smolders now, ... ruined, sacked, gutted, such is Athene's work, and his the Parnassian, Wpeius of Phocis, architect and builder (TW 9-12)
that swarmed with inward steel, that fatal bulk which passed within battlements, whose fame hereafter shall be loud among men unborn, the Wooden which hid the secret spears within (TW 11-14)
now the gods' groves are desolate, their thrones of power blood-spattered where beside the life of the alter steps of Zeus Defender ... cut down and died TW 15-17) top approx., 14 x 22" wood lath, present
an oracle that the city will be destroyed when an iron or bronze man is its guardian, so have you some devise for persuading them of this tale? (Politeia 415c)
as if you had been there yourself or heard it from one who has, come to another part of the story, sing of the wooden ... Epeios made with Athene helping (Od. VIII 491-93) 28 x 23" wood lath, present
O city, long ago a happy place, good-bye, good-bye, hewn bastions. Pallas, child of Zeus, did this, but for her hatred, you might stand strong-founded still (TW 45-47)
wood lath, face 20 x 20" - top to bottom 27 x 27"
and three ways of thought found favor, either to take the pitiless bronze to it and hack open ... or drag it to the cliff's edge and topple it over (Od. VIII 506-08)
for the Trojans themselves had dragged it up to the height of the city, and now it was standing there and the Trojans seated around it talked endlessly (Od. VIII 504-06) approx., 28 x 20" wood lath, present
or let it stand where it was as a dedication to blandish the gods, and this last way was to be the end of it, seeing that the city was destined to be destroyed (Od. VIII 509-11) wood lath 2023
the will of Argive Hera and Athene won its way ... since once a city sinks into sad desolation the gods' state sickens also, and their worship fades (TW 23-27) approx., 25 x 19" wood lath, present
made of wood, with all the best Argives sitting within and bearing death and doom for the Trojans ... left their hollow hiding place ... sacked the city (Od. VIII 514-15) 39 x 21" wood lath 2023
bring her out from where she hides ... I'd give a lot to spread those legs ... smack a kiss we'd damn well have to peel away that shell like a hard boiled egg (Birds 663-674)
or guard like a prison and this is itself σωμα for the soul until the penalty is paid (Cratylus 400c) 39 x 18" wood lath 2023
those who in their contempt of mankind bewitch so many of the living by the pretense of evoking the dead and the promise of winning over the gods ... incarceration in the central prison (Laws XI 909b) wood lath 2023
shall receive from the turnkeys the strict rations prescribed by the curators of the laws (Laws XI 909c) 22 x 18" wood lath 2023
for some say it is a tomb σημα sign of the soul ... is undergoing punishment for something ... as an enclosure to keep it safe, like a prison (Cratylus 400c) top 22 x 18", wood lath, 2023
when you learn the sights recognized by my art you will understand ... it is never sweeter to learn from a good counselor ... counsels to your benefit (Antigone 988)
where hated by their own father from the beginning and as soon as any of them were born Sky put them all away out of sight in a hiding place ... did not let them come into the light (Theogonia 154-58)
and he rejoiced in his evil deed ... and she devised a tricky, evil stratagem... and she fashioned a big sickle and showed it to her children (Theogonia 159-63) 38 x 22" wood lath 2023
18 x 38", wood lath, 2023
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once they see the good itself they must be compelled each in his turn to use it as a pattern for ordering city private men and themselves for the rest of their lives ... in philosophy (Politeia 540c) approx., 15 x 19" wood
approx., 19 x 28" wood
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and ruling women too Glauκon don't suppose that what I have said applies any more to men than women all those who are born among them with adequate natures (Politeia 540c) approx., 26 x 15" wood
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Dawn courses over the earth above ... the Pleiades ... nightingale sings her tremulous melody mourning at daybreak Itys much lamented ... on the streams of the Ocean the sweet singing swan wails (Phaethon 63-78)
stars around the beautiful moon hide back there luminous form whenever all full she shines on the earth silvery (Sappho) sings ... on the streams of Xanthus the swan (Partheneion 99-101) clear tape
gathering all the weapons ... armed those women ... where she knew the would attack ... priestess at Delphi had foretold ... Herodotus quoted (Pausanias 2nd c.AD) white tape, black electrical tape, ink graphite on paper
as to the fact that persuasion added to logos makes whatever impression it likes on the soul, one should attend first to the accounts (logoi) of the astronomers (Yoryias 483-375 BCE) paper cloth plaster wire 12 x 7 x 4"
the astronomers who replace one opinion with another and so make things incredible and unclear seem apparent to the eyes of opinion (Yoryios 483-375 BCE) paper cloth plaster wire 12 x 7 x 4"
God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that who so ever πιστευων not perish but have αλλ' εχη ζωην αιώνιον everlasting life. (King James Bible) Koine Greek
this then is why a self-mover is a source of motion and that is incapable of being destroyed ... a self-mover is immortal ... the essence and principle of a soul ...
while a body whose motion comes from within, from itself, does have a soul - whatever moves itself is essentially a soul - then it follows necessarily that soul should have neither birth or death (Phaedruς 245e)
cosmic rule, day night, winter summer, war peace, famine ... fire penetrates the lump of myrrh ... in the abysmal dark the soul is known by scent (Eraκleitoς c. 500 BCE)
strings could be made up of yet smaller structures ... may have further substructure ... strings to be nature's most fundamental ingredient (Brian Greene)
consists of a tiny one-dimensional loop ... vibrating oscillating dancing filament ... string theory adds the microscopic layers of a vibrating loop ... progression from atoms neutrons (B Greene)
careful never to let even a single fetus see the light of day if one should be conceived and if one should force its way to deal with it on the understanding that there's no rearing for such a child (Politeia 461c)
who runs after her mother begs to be picked up and carried clings to her dress and holds her back when she tries to hurry and gazes tearfully into her face until she is picked up? (Iliad XVI 8-10)
Eκαβη look I see her Ανδρομαχην being carried on an enemy wagon next to her breast is her beloved ... where are you being taken on the seat of the wagon? (TW 568-72)
I could claim that a gust of the North Wind blew her over the rocks where she was playing with Pharmaκeia and once she was killed that way people said she had been carried off by Boreas (Phaedrus 229c)
slew all the adult males whom they had taken and made slaves of the children and women ... new settlers from Athens ... five hundred colonists (Thucydides VCXVI 1-4)
.... girls κοπελες of Mauthausen girls of Belsen have you seen my love? we saw her in the frigid square with a number on her ασπρο hand κιτρινο star on her καρδια heart (I Kambanellis)
.... offspring are born won't they be taken over by the officers established for this purpose men or women or both for presumably the offices are common to women and men (Politeia 460b)
when I was arbiter on Ares' hill and broke the tie by voting in your favor now let it be law when the votes are tied the defendant wins ... take your sister and I will keep my sister's image safe (Iphigenia At Taurus 1470-89)
no time for such things ... I am unable as the Delphic inscription orders to know thyself ... ridiculous to look into other things ... am I a beast more complicated and savage than Typho or divine gentle? (Phaedrus 230a)
'εχω πόνον I have pain suffering but you sleep with babyish heart slumber in the dismal boat ... its brazen bolts sent forth in the unlit night and dark blue murk (Simonides c. 556-468 BCE)
when in the intricately - carved chest the blasts of wind ανεμος and the troubled water prostrated her in fear with streaming cheeks she put her loving arm about (Simonides of Keos c. 556-468 BCE)
the poem's rhythm will escape you you will be unable to make out strophe antistrophe or epode and will think it one continuous piece of prose (Dionysius On Literary Composition)
still alive? ... terrible waters ... unless one has a well-built ship ... my child ill-fated beyond all other mortals ... strive back toward the light ... remember ... tell (Odyssey XI 159-224)
waves tossed her ... as the North Wind in autumn tumbles and tosses thistledown along the plain ... tossed her on the great sea ... South Wind ... West would burst in and follow (Odyssey V 325-33)
bottom of the tomb we saw her hanging ... knot noose of linen ... I will go in and learn if in her passionate heart she keeps hidden some secret purpose ... danger in too much silence ... knife ... she cursed you (Antigone 1220-1309)
carried over the sea and bewailing her fate ... 'you pay no attention to the deep spray above your hair as the wave passes by nor to the sound of the wind lying in your white blanket a lovely face' (Simonides of Keos)
to Hades ... strong one knotting a noose ... hanging sheer from the high ceiling in the constraint of her sorrow but left to him who survived her all the sorrows ... mother's furies (Odyssey XI 276-80)
Simonides makes Danae say ... 'my child ... childish heart you slumber' in other lines he says as Archemorus 'they wept for the suckling babe ... breathed out ... sweet soul' (Athenaeus 170-220 AD)
if this danger were danger to you why you would turn your tiny ear to my words sleep my baby I tell you and let the sea sleep and let our vast trouble sleep (Simonides c. 556-468 BCE)
lyric poetry ... lines of Simonides ... not in metrical divisions ... but in the divisions demanded by prose pay attention to the song and read it according to divisions (Dionysius of Haliκarnassus)
that the witnesses of this act will continue to deny that courage is a thing that can be taught in spite of her sex throws herself so daringly over the swords (The Dinner Party 1.15-2.8)
.... tomb of Medea's children ... Mermerus and Pheres and they are said to have been stoned to death by the Corinthians owing to the gifts which legend says they brought to Glauce (Pauanias II.3) (6)
.... last and loveliest embrace of all child's ... for nothing the swaddled baby at this mother's breast in vain the wrack of the labor pains and the long sickness (TW 757-60)
in the beginning there was only Chaos and Night black Darkness ... Tartarus ... hollow of Darkness black winged Night laid the first wind-borne egg (Birds 695) thread
something of what is - geometry ... arts ... do dream about what is but they haven't the capacity to see ... turning such an agreement to knowledge? (Politeia 533b) wood lath H 38 x W 22 x top 19 x 21"
lying by the public executioner ... his eyes wide and ran towards the corpses ... 'look you damned wretches take your fill of the fair sight' (Politeia 439-40)
I will bind your wounds with bandages ... flowers ... small difference to the dead ... all this is an empty glorification left for those who live (TW 1232-50)
prepare this body reluctantly for burial cover her nakedness with the tattered finest of thread each strand of hair stroked only by me weep not my child
.... cry of pain pain ... now dark holy death ... alas ... ταχ' ες φιλαν γαν πεσεισθ' ανωνυμοι you will fall to the dear ground and be nameless (TW 1310-19)
Zeus' eye which sees all things and knows all things ... is well aware just what kind of justice this is which the city has within it ... I do not anticipate ... will not let (Works and Days 206-73)
to cleanse the town ... pelted with fig branches ... and sequels ... place within reach barley cake cheese like scapegoats eat they've been waiting open-mouthed (Ipponax 4th c. BCE)
Greeks! your Greek cleverness is simple barbarity ... these are the gods who damn us to this death and I have no strength ... cover my wretched face (TW 764-79) pressed tin wire lath 27 x 20 x 7" 2021
as great is the bottom of a broad cargo-carrying ... well skilled in carpentry ... size of the broad raft ... fitting them close ... keep the water out (Odyssey V 249-50) wood 46 x 25 x D27"
what it means to be a slave το δουλον ως κακον to be abused τολμα and bear it to suffer wrong injustice when βια violence overcomes (Eκabe 332-34) 17 x 12 x 8"
the triangles ... is of its nature ... than that formed by unequal sides ... a more stable base than the equilateral triangle ... assign this figure to earth (Timaeus 55e-56a)
told Paen to heal ... as when the fig in white milk mixes that which was fluid before it curdles quickly for one who stirs it in such speed as this (Iliad 899-904)
blood-stained tethered bodies dragged through the snow forever to roam all alone December's freezing cold Epirus Northern Greece
the spatially extended nature of a string is the crucial new element allowing for a single harmonious framework incorporating both theories ... provides s truly unified theory (B Greene)
I ask you, lover of splendor, loveliest of mortals' cities, abode of Persephone, you who dwell upon the well-built height above the banks Acragas
along with the good will of gods and men graciously receive this crown from Pytho ... Athena once invented by weaving into music the fierce Gorgons' deathly dirge ... snake heads (Pindar Pythian 12, 1-10)
of drunken bravado ... foolish in council ... weight a woman would bear if a man ... fight ... would μαχεσαιτο χεσειτο γαρ (Knights 1050-55) μαχεσαιτο shit herself (Little Iliad 7th c. BCE fr 2)
I begin twisting and coiling strips of paper into a shape which I refer to as the wrapping. The wrapping serves as the core from which the sculpture (cover) emerges
the role of the archetypal sufferer
signs of an old quarrel between philosophy and poetry ... and imitation have any argument ... we should be delighted to receive her back from exile ... it isn't holy to betray what seems to be the truth, aren't you too, my friend, charmed by it, especially when you contemplate it through the medium of Homer? (Republic 607b-d)
what concern have I with Erechtheus' daughter ... to leave a child to die who has been born ... all evil men are punished by the gods (Ion 433-41)
where the earth rides ... Zeuς ... Αναγκη Necessity or mortal mind... you walk the path none hears ... bring all human action back to Right at last (TW 884-89) wood lath H 28 x W 22"
In a Greek place and time, my mother, my grandmother ... gathered olives from trees bearing bright fruit and firewood for the hearth. I similarly follow, but in a strange and foreign land.
... have come as a suppliant to this sculpture αγαλμα of the goddess ... melting to tears like some gushing spring high up the cliff (Andromache 114-16) wood thread bamboo
... bear not to see a suppliant by force led from these statues, seized by my garments (Suppliant Women 428-33) Greek Attic, Temple of Zeus west pediment 'Lapith woman' c. 460 BCE
hear me it is your mother who calls ... taken, dragged away ... δουλειον slavery ... did you see? did you hear? ... the earth shook ... shaken, tremulous limbs (TW 1303-28)
