Thou strikest not MÊTIS!
Art Neuendorffer
Antony and Cleopatra Act 4, Scene 14
MARK ANTONY: Thou strikest not *ME, 'TIS*
Caesar thou defeat'st.
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The Taming of the Shrew Act 5, Scene 2
PETRUCHIO: as the JEST did glance away from *ME, 'TIS*
ten to one it maim'd you two outright.
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The Great Basin on Tethys
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060208.html
<<Some moons wouldn't survive the collision. Tethys, one of Saturn's
larger moons at about 1000 kilometers in diameter, survived the
collision, but sports today the expansive impact crater Odysseus.
Sometimes called the Great Basin, Odysseus occurs on the leading
hemisphere of Tethys and shows its great age by the relative amount
of smaller craters that occur inside its towering walls. The density
of Tethys is similar to water-ice. The above digitally enhanced
image was captured late last year by the robot Cassini spacecraft
in orbit around Saturn as it swooped past the giant ice ball.>>
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Notes on Odysseus' Name and Pseudonyms
http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/m'onomakluton.html
The verb associated with Odysseus' name can also mean "to suffer
or receive pain." Lombardo translates this meaning (ôdinô, ôdusato)
as "odious to" (1.68, 5.341, 5.425) and "hit him hard" (19.303).
Odysseus so odious -an effort to translate a pun on Odysseus'
name, which means "he who gives or receives pain."
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In addition, the theme of the name is immensely complicated by the
meanings of the pseudonym that Odysseus uses to trick the Cyclops.
Odysseus is a "no man" or "nobody" (ou tis),
an "any man" [ *MÊ TIS* ] who is also famous
for being extremely clever [ *MÊTIS* ].
A hero cannot be a nobody, but must make his name glorious & famous
by doing great deeds. If he dies unknown, as could have happened
to Elpenor, his name and fame die with him, and he has little
chance of being celebrated by poets and future generations.
my glorious name -in Greek, m'onoma kluton
or "my famous name."
Noman = Outis = "no man" or "no one" in Greek. When the other
Cyclopes say, "Is some man is rustling your flocks" and "If no man
is hurting you" (9.404, 9.409), they use another Greek form of the
negative, mê tis, which means "no one" or "no man." This word sounds
very much like another Greek word- *MÊTIS* -which means "cunning
intelligence," and which forms part of Odysseus's usual epithet
*polyMÊTIS* , or "much cunning intelligence." Odysseus himself
makes the pun at 9.411-12, which might be more literally
translated as: "my heart within laughed / at how my name
and faultless cunning [ *MÊTIS* ] had fooled him."
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<< *Clamn dever* , Lenehan said to Mr O'Madden Burke.>>
clever: *MÊTIS* => any man: *MÊ TIS* => *ME 'TIS*
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Act 5, Scene 2
HAMLET: No, believe *ME, 'TIS*
VERry cold; the wind is northerly.
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona Act 1, Scene 2
JULIA: Now, trust *ME, 'TIS* an office of great worth
And you an officer fit for the place.
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The Merry Wives of Windsor Act 2, Scene 1
MISTRESS PAGE: [Reads]
I will not say, pity *ME; 'TIS* not a soldier-like phrase:
but I say, love me. By me, Thine own *TRUE* knight,
Act 3, Scene 4
FENTON: Besides these, other bars he lays before me,
My riots past, my wild societies;
And tells *ME 'TIS* a thing impossible
I should love thee but as a property.
Act 3, Scene 5
FORD: Well, I will proclaim myself
what I am: I will now take the lecher; he is at my
house; he cannot 'scape *ME; 'TIS* impossible he
should; he cannot creep into a halfpenny purse,
nor into a pepper-box: but, lest the devil that
guides him should aid him, I will search
impossible places.
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King Richard II Act 5, Scene 5
KING RICHARD II: If thou love *ME, 'TIS* time thou wert away.
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King Henry V Act 3, Scene 2
MACMORRIS: so God sa' *ME, 'TIS* shame to stand still;
it is shame, by my hand: and there is throats
to be cut, and works to be done; and there
ish nothing done, so Chrish sa' me, la!
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King Henry VIII Act 3, Scene 2
CARDINAL WOLSEY: This paper has undone *ME: 'TIS*
the account Of all that world of wealth I have drawn
together For mine own ends; indeed, to gain the popedom,
And fee my friends in Rome. O negligence!
Fit for a fool to fall by: what cross devil
Made me put this main secret in the packet
I sent the king?
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As You Like It Act 4, Scene 1
ROSALIND: that flattering tongue of yours won *ME: 'TIS*
but one cast away, and so, come, death!
Two o'clock is your hour?
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Twelfth Night Act 3, Scene 4
OLIVIA: *HERE* , WEAR this jewel for *ME, 'TIS* my picture;
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Measure for Measure Act 1, Scene 2
CLAUDIO: --but this new governor
Awakes me all the enrolled penalties
Which have, like unscour'd armour, hung by the wall
So long that *19* zodiacs have gone round
And none of them been worn; and, for a name,
Now puts the drowsy and neglected act
Freshly on *ME: 'TIS* surely for a name.
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The Winter's Tale Act 1, Scene 2
POLIXENES: How! dare not! do not. Do you know, and dare not?
Be intelligent to *ME: 'TIS* thereabouts;
For, to yourself, what you do know, you must.
Act 2, Scene 1
HERMIONE: he so troubles *ME, 'TIS* past enduring.
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Cymbeline Act 4, Scene 2
BELARIUS: I'm not their father; yet who this should be,
Doth miracle itself, loved before *ME. 'TIS*
the ninth hour o' the morn.
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Timon of Athens Act 1, Scene 1
TIMON: I will send his ransom;
And being enfranchised, bid him come to *ME. 'TIS*
not enough to help the *FEEBLE* up,
But to support him after.
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Antony and Cleopatra Act 1, Scene 2
MARK ANTONY: When it concerns the fool or coward. On:
Things that are past are done with *ME. 'TIS* thus:
Who tells me TRUE, though in his tale lie death,
I hear him as he flatter'd.
Act 2, Scene 7
POMPEY: In *ME 'TIS* villany; In thee't had been good service.
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Notes on Odysseus' Name and Pseudonyms
http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/m'onomakluton.html
(9.402) Polyphemus --In Greek, "much telling" or "much fame"-
-in other words, a braggart. Note that we learn the Cyclops' name
only now, and that Odysseus, too, both hides his own name
and talks a lot about his fame.
(19.199) My name is Aethon which means, "red," or "ruddy."
Another form, aithomenos, means "burning, to kindle, set alight."
Dimock suggests that in this passage Odysseus' fiery lies
melt and dissolve Penelope to tears
(19.440-48) Odysseus' name is related to the Greek verb odussomai,
which usually means "to be angry at," "to hate," or "to be grieved."
However, as George Dimock points out, in Homer's Odyssey the verb
usually means "to cause pain" or "to bear a grudge against." Thus,
Odysseus' name means "he who causes pain or makes others angry."
Hence when he names Odysseus, Autolycus associates that name with
his own tricky behavior: "odious, yes, /Hateful to many for
the pain I have caused" (19.445-46).
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Sonnet 145
'I HATE' from HATE AWAY SHE threw, ANd
sav'd my life, saying 'not you'
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"That I do WASTE with OTHERS' LOVE,
that HATH myself in HATE," - E.O.
http://www3.telus.net/oxford/oxfordspoems.html#toppoems
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(24.313-15) Alybas...Apheidas...Polypemon --These names
that Odysseus tries to pawn off on his father are
translated by Robert Fagles as "Roamer-Town," "Unsparing" &
"old King Pain" respectively. According to Georg Autenrieth,
Polypemon means "A great possessor or sufferer."
(24.315) Eperitus, Odysseus' last pseudonym, is translated by
Fagles as "Man of Strife." George Dimock says the name sounds
similar to peiretizon, "to put to the test" (328), precisely
what Odysseus is doing to his father. (See lines 24.225 and
24.245-47.) To my ear, however, Eperitus seems closest to
eperetos, "at the oar," or "furnished with oars."
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"One man's word is no man's word;
we should quietly hear both sides."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/3199/attic2.html
<<I've just been looking through Robert Graves' discussion
of Odysseus' journey in his _Greek Myths_. Graves reckons
that the Odyssey is constructed out of (at least) two parts,
1) the quasi-historical legend of Odysseus' return from Troy
2) and the story of how a sacred sacrficial king
refused death at the end of his reign.
The well-known "magical" incidents of Odysseus' return
happen by this theory to be part of the sacrificial king
component theorized by Graves, which for the sake of distinction
he calls the "Ulysses" story. ("Ulysses" means "wounded thigh".)
One point that is often missed in discussing the Odyssey is that
for the Cyclopes and all that we only have the word of Odysseus!
These stories of magic & monsters are contained in the account
of his travels that he tells the Phaecians....they clearly don't
believe him; and indeed Odysseus is the King of Liars, and
clearly presented as such; Athene herself praises him
for his ability to conceal the truth.>>
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SPENSEr dedication in Fairie Queene (1590)
To the right Honourable the Earle of Oxenford,
Lord high Chamberlayne of England. &c.
And also for the loue, which thou doest beare
To th'HELICONian ymps, and they to thee,
They vnto thee, and thou to them most deare:
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<<The Ionians of Helice in Achaea had a very holy sanctuary of
HELICONian Poseidon. When they were expelled from Helice they went
to Athens, where they continued to worship HELICONian Poseidon.
Bulls, especially black ones, were sacrificed to him, & sometimes
flung alive into rivers to propitiate him. His temples were usually
to be found on promontories and headlands jutting into the sea.>>
-- _New Century Classical Handbook_
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HIPPOCURIUS: "Horse-tending" eptithet of Poseidon.
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<<he loitered outside theatres; very likely the Shoreditch Theatre
or the nearby Curtain. Both theatres were owned by James Burbage,
a carpenter. There, he attended the horses of gentlemen arriving
for afternoon performances. Soon, he had a small gang of urchins
helping him. These became known as "Shaxpere's Boys", and were
particularly asked for by gentlemen attending the theatre.
Extract taken from Nicholas Rowe's book:
'Some Account of the Life &c,
of Mr. William Shakespeare'.
published in 1709.
The information was collected
for Rowe by his actor friend, Thomas Betterton,
who acquired the story from Sir William Davenant,
"...when Shakespeare fled to London from the terror of a criminal
prosecution, his first expedient was to wait at the door of the
playhouse and hold the horses of those that had no servants, that they
might be ready again after the performance. In this office he became
so conspicuous for his care and readiness, that in a short time EVERy
man, as he alighted, called for Will. Shakespeare, and scarcely any
other waiter was trusted with a horse, while Will. Shakespeare could
be had. This was his first dawn of better fortune. Shakespeare finding
more horses put into his hand than he could hold, hired boys to wait
under his inspection, who when Will. Shakespeare was summoned, were
immediately to present themselves, "I am Shakespeare's boy, sir!"
In time Shakespeare found higher employment; but as long as the
practice of riding to the playhouse continued, the waiters that
held the horses retained the application of Shakespeare's boys.">>
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Philip Sidney was mortally wounded in the thigh.
ULYSSES was recognized by his wound in the thigh.
_______ ULYSSES
______ SYD(ne)YES
_______ (o)DYS-SEY
SYD(ne)YES's _ arch rival was O(x)EN(f)O(r)D
(o)DYS-SE(us)'s arch rival was (p)O(s)E(i)DON
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On The Countesse Dowager of Pembroke
Mary (Sidney) Herbert,
(U)nderneath this sable Herse
(LYES) the subiect of all verse:
(SYD)ne(YES) sister, Pembroke's Mother:
Death, ere thou hast slaine another,
Faire, & Learn'd, & good as she,
Tyme shall throw a *DART* at thee.
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ODYSSEY - Homer (tr. Samuel Butler)
<<I can throw a *DART* farther
than any one else can shoot an arrow.>>
<< *ULYSSES* struck the son of Damastor
with a spear in close fight, while Telemachus
hit Leocritus son of Evenor in the belly,
and the *DART* went clean through him, so that
he fell forward full on his face upon the ground.>>
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William Perkins's *salve for a Sicke Man* (1597):
<<[John KNOX] lay on his death bedde silent for
the space of four hours, very often giving great
sighes, sobbes, and grones... "But blessed be God
which brought to my minde such Scriptures whereby
I might *QUENCH* the fierie *DARTS* of the devill,
By the grace of God, *I AM THAT I AM* : and, not I but the
grace of God in me: and thus being vanquished he departed.">>
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SPENSE: Italian: *QUENCHed*
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Notes on ODYSSEUS' Name & Pseudonyms
http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/m'onomakluton.html
ODYSSEUS' name is related to the Greek verb
ODUSSOMAI, which usually means "to HATE,"
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'I HATE' from HATE away she threw,
And sav'd my life, saying 'not you' - Sonnet 145
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However, in Homer's *ODYSSEY* the verb usually
means "to cause pain" or "to bear a grudge against."
Thus, *ODYSSEUS* 's name means "he who causes pain
or makes others angry." Hence when he names ODYSSEUS,
AUTOLYCUS associates that name with his own tricky behavior:
"odious, yes, HATEful to many for the pain I have caused".
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"That I do WASTE with others' love,
that HATH myself in HATE," - E.O.
http://www3.telus.net/oxford/oxfordspoems.html#toppoems
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<<If others have their WILL Ann HATH a way.>>
-- *ULYSSES* by Joyce
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Art Neuendorffer