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A good start
Next Thursday (April 10th) our weekly chat will be devoted to the inaugural session of the Starry Bull book club. Basically each month the group is going to choose a book or primary source related to...
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Putting the social in social media
Hey Starry Bull thiasitai and other folks, we’ll be having our next online chat on Thursday – and this time I’ll actually attend! (Mad props to Emily for unexpectedly filling in – she did such a great...
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Hope to see you there!
Greetings from your archiboukolos, members of the Starry Bull thiasos and others! This week’s chat will start at 9:30pm EDT on Thursday with an agenda of: * Discussing the Prophets of our tradition...
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Nine Days of Flavius Philostratos’ Heroikos
Vinedr.: I have not yet met him when he is eating, my guest, nor have I observed him drinking. Indeed, I make a drink-offering for him every evening from these Thasian vines, which he himself planted,...
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Phoen.: [§10.1] Why don’t you describe him to me and share what he looks like? Vinedr.: [§10.2] Gladly, my guest, by Athena. He is about twenty years old at most. Because he sailed to Troy at such a...
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[§52.3] From Thessaly, of course, Achilles also received hymns, which they sang at night when they visited his tomb every year, mixing something of an initiatory rite with their offerings to the dead,...
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Nine Days of Flavius Philostratos’ Heroikos
[§40.1] Listen also to the deeds of Alexandros, unless you are exceedingly vexed with him. Phoen.: I am vexed, but I may as well listen. Vinedr.: [§40.2] Protesilaos says that Alexandros was hated by...
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Nine Days of Flavius Philostratos’ Heroikos
[§53.8] The Thessalian offerings which came regularly to Achilles from Thessaly were decreed for the Thessalians by the oracle at Dodona. For indeed the oracle commanded the Thessalians to sail to Troy...
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Phoen.: [§7.2] What I mean by “Trojan times” is this sort of thing: the assembling of the army at Aulis and the heroes, one by one, whether they were handsome, brave, and clever, as they are...
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Nine Days of Flavius Philostratos’ Heroikos
Vinedr.: [§56.6] Achilles himself is said to have appeared to a merchant who once visited the island often, related what took place in Troy, entertained him with drink as well, and ordered him after...
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Vinedr.: [§18.2]They appear, I said. They still appear great and divine to herdsmen and shepherds on the plain, and they are seen whenever there is evil upon the land. If they appear covered with dust,...
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Vinedr.: [§45.2] So shall it be, and you will say that you know everything about Achilles. I have heard the following about him. An apparition of a daimon of the sea used to visit Peleus. Because she...
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Clear your Thursday
Our next chat will be on Thursday, June 12th at 9:30pm EDT on Zoho and we’ll be going over Flavius Philostratos’ Heroikos, which you may have noticed I’ve been posting excerpts of this last week or so....
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