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chapter two AMOUSIA: LIVING WITHOUT THE MUSES* Stephen Halliwell 1. Introduction Without music life would be a mistake: ‘Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrthum’. So, famously, wrote Friedrich Nietzsche in the first section (‘Max- ims and Arrows’) of Twilight of the Idols.1 As always, Nietzsche had
concluded that ltJVX~ at this early period meant virtually "life", thus protecting early Greek epic from the possible accusation of fos- tering belief in a double which survives death and can therefore have an effect upon the world of the living. He saw cpp~v/cppEvEc;, 0uµ6c;, ~Top, K~p, and Kpa81ri as
Gerhard, above n. I, 140 ff. CALLIMACHUS AND OTHER HELLENISTIC IAMBI 67 choliambic poem like the first anonymous fragment, but it soon becomes clear that the situation which motivated Callimachus' poem is a homosexual relationship-a feature of the corrupt present which is castigated in the third
badly with living a plea- sant or an unpleasant life also supplies Socrates with a starting point for arguing that - just like holiness, justice and temperance - courage too is a form of knowledge. After having endeavoured to identify courage and knowledge by way of a cumbrous proof, against the
motivated by sexual desire for him, or is something more sinister being hinted at?20 Much of the power of the moment derives from its intertextual reso- nances. The idea of a return to life through love calls to mind the stories of Orpheus and Eurydice, of Protesilaus and Laodameia, and of Alcestis; while
to Otho’s charms because she is old, and should she be jealous of Otho’s sexual intimacy with Nero? A less overt example of imperial seduction appears in the Life of Galba: [Galba] courted (observavit) above all the empress Livia, by whose favour (gratia), while she was living, he fared extremely
CHAPTER FIFTEEN A V ARRONIAN VATIC NUMA?: OVID'S FAST! AND PLUTARCH'S liFE OF NUMA Molly Pasco-Pranger By the early second century B.C.E. Rome's second king, Numa Pom- pilius, was associated with a nymph or minor goddess named Egeria who advised him in his administration of the young city; the
little bearing on one’s general well-being, the emotion will be a transient one, leaving but a fleeting impression. But such are not the emotions in Gilgamesh . The relevance of the events here is of vital significance: the hero’s life-plans involve an uninterrupted continuation of his friendship with
instrument of government, and therefore to Roman military power. Use in public administration, however, is only one application of a genre that appeared in ordinary life as a record of possessions. If we think of the inventory just as a document that helped people manage their economic affairs, how we view
destroying pagan reality, a Jew has to avoid either supporting or benefiting from pagan worship directly or indirectly.” con- cerning rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai’s warning and its relation to events which occurred in his time, see J. neusner, A Life of Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai, ca. 1–80 C.E. (Leiden 1970