“Thou shalt know, too, the heavens
that surround us, whence they arose, and how Necessity took
them and bound them to keep the limits of the stars . . .
XI
How the earth, and the sun, and the moon, and the sky that is
common to all, and the Milky Way, and the outermost Olympos,
and the burning might of the stars
arose.”
“XV
Always straining her eyes to the beams of the sun.”
“XIX
Thus, according to men’s opinions, did things comp into
being, and thus they are now. In time (they think) they will
grow up and pass away. To each of these things men have
assigned a fixed name.”
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Aστραίᾱ rated William Blake. I disegni per la Divina Commedia di Dante: 4 stars
Aστραίᾱ reviewed Parmenides of Elea Fragments by Parmenides. (Phoenix.)
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Aστραίᾱ rated Mathematician's Apology: 5 stars
Aστραίᾱ rated A Mathematician's Lament: 5 stars
A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart
"A musician wakes from a terrible nightmare. In his dream he finds himself in a society where music education has …
Aστραίᾱ rated The Prophet: 5 stars
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Originally published in 1923; this …
Aστραίᾱ rated Caravaggio. L'opera completa: 5 stars
Review of "Shelley's 'Hymn of Pan'" on 'Goodreads'
“Gods and men, we are all deluded thus!
It breaks in our bosom and then we bleed.”
Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (The Penguin poets -- D74)
Aστραίᾱ reviewed Metaphors we live by by George Lakoff
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I possess an incessant interest in organising the cognitive map of the human being according to its relation to the heavens. Not a menial task I know, and neither one that will be resolved within the next few years of my existence, but while I work towards a deeper understanding of this human connection and consequent interpretation of that which surrounds us I have found that emerging myself within the field of linguistics from time to time is of quite the great importance in order to widen my general perspective.
This book wasn’t exactly an extreme eye opener of sorts, as someone who has studied various languages for years I’ve had the privilege of coming to various conclusions present in this book on my own but I cannot ignore the aid that such an approach to metaphor and its mutual relationship with both the human experience and its metamorphosing structure …
I possess an incessant interest in organising the cognitive map of the human being according to its relation to the heavens. Not a menial task I know, and neither one that will be resolved within the next few years of my existence, but while I work towards a deeper understanding of this human connection and consequent interpretation of that which surrounds us I have found that emerging myself within the field of linguistics from time to time is of quite the great importance in order to widen my general perspective.
This book wasn’t exactly an extreme eye opener of sorts, as someone who has studied various languages for years I’ve had the privilege of coming to various conclusions present in this book on my own but I cannot ignore the aid that such an approach to metaphor and its mutual relationship with both the human experience and its metamorphosing structure has given me.
I believe that this is a book that many monolinguals should read, cough English speakers cough, in order to understand the true extent in which the language, and consequently the metaphorical concepts culturally ingrained in such a language, that they’ve been nurtured in affects their perspective and conceptualisation of experience.
Aστραίᾱ rated The Derveni papyrus: 5 stars
The Derveni papyrus by Theokritos Kouremenos, K. Tsantsanoglou (Studi e testi per il Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini -- 13.)
Aστραίᾱ reviewed The Orphic Hymns by Apostolos N. Athanassakis
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5 stars
I adore anything Orphism related, I’ll have to acquire a physical copy of this now and reread it after endeavoring in some further research related to this ancient ‘religion’.
Aστραίᾱ rated The Cambridge illustrated history of the Islamic world: 4 stars
Aστραίᾱ rated Writings from Ancient Egypt: 4 stars
Aστραίᾱ rated Aristophanes clouds: 4 stars
Aristophanes clouds by Aristophanes, Aristophanes
The Catholic University of America Speech and Drama Department presents Aristophanes' "The Clouds," translated by William Arrowsmith, directed by Leo …