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Eumenides with an inscribed calendar
Eumenides {1-63: .gr | .de}:
1-5 | 6-10 | 11-15 | 16-20: Pentaden of the solonic calendarium.
21-30: The last days of the 29-days-months or 30-days-months were counted backwards.
30: Caesura (Diairesis) falls in between the 'ME' and the 'TWN'. Meton was an astronomer. His concept of a reform of the greek calendar was adopted in 432 BC, i.e. at the change from the hellenic to hellenistic epoche.
The marginalia, annotations and inscriptions were written during 1989/90 in Berlin-Schöneberg by me onto the pages 186-189 of the book Aeschylus: Tragödien und Fragmente. Hrsg. u. übers. von Oskar Werner. Artemis 4. Auflage 1988.
: : . Πυθιάς . : :
01 . πρῶτον μὲν εὐχῇ τῇδε πρεσβεύω θεῶν
02 . τὴν πρωτόμαντιν Γαῖαν: ἐκ δὲ τῆς Θέμιν,
03 . ἣ δὴ τὸ μητρὸς δευτέρα τόδ᾽ ἕζετο
04 . μαντεῖον, ὡς λόγος τις: ἐν δὲ τῷ τρίτῳ
05 . λάχει, θελούσης, οὐδὲ πρὸς βίαν τινός,
06 . Τιτανὶς ἄλλη παῖς Χθονὸς καθέζετο,
07 . Φοίβη: δίδωσι δ᾽ ἣ γενέθλιον δόσιν
08 . Φοίβῳ: τὸ Φοίβης δ᾽ ὄνομ᾽ ἔχει παρώνυμον.
09 . λιπὼν δὲ λίμνην Δηλίαν τε χοιράδα,
10 . κέλσας ἐπ᾽ ἀκτὰς ναυπόρους τὰς Παλλάδος,
11 . ἐς τήνδε γαῖαν ἦλθε Παρνησοῦ θ᾽ ἕδρας.
12 . πέμπουσι δ᾽ αὐτὸν καὶ σεβίζουσιν μέγα
13 . κελευθοποιοὶ παῖδες Ἡφαίστου, χθόνα
14 . ἀνήμερον τιθέντες ἡμερωμένην.
15 . μολόντα δ᾽ αὐτὸν κάρτα τιμαλφεῖ λεώς,
16 . Δελφός τε χώρας τῆσδε πρυμνήτης ἄναξ.
17 . τέχνης δέ νιν Ζεὺς ἔνθεον κτίσας φρένα
18 . ἵζει τέταρτον τοῖσδε μάντιν ἐν θρόνοις:
19 . Διὸς προφήτης δ᾽ ἐστὶ Λοξίας πατρός.
20 . τούτους ἐν εὐχαῖς φροιμιάζομαι θεούς.
21 . Παλλὰς προναία δ᾽ ἐν λόγοις πρεσβεύεται:
22 . σέβω δὲ νύμφας, ἔνθα Κωρυκὶς πέτρα
23 . κοίλη, φίλορνις, δαιμόνων ἀναστροφή:
24 . Βρόμιος ἔχει τὸν χῶρον, οὐδ᾽ ἀμνημονῶ,
25 . ἐξ οὗτε Βάκχαις ἐστρατήγησεν θεός,
26 . λαγὼ δίκην Πενθεῖ καταρράψας μόρον:
27 . Πλειστοῦ τε πηγὰς καὶ Ποσειδῶνος κράτος
28 . καλοῦσα καὶ τέλειον ὕψιστον Δία,
29 . ἔπειτα μάντις ἐς θρόνους καθιζάνω.
30 . καὶ νῦν τυχεῖν με τῶν πρὶν εἰσόδων μακρῷ
31 . ἄριστα δοῖεν: κεἰ παρ᾽ Ἑλλήνων τινές,
32 . ἴτων πάλῳ λαχόντες, ὡς νομίζεται.
33 . μαντεύομαι γὰρ ὡς ἂν ἡγῆται θεός.
34 . ἦ δεινὰ λέξαι, δεινὰ δ᾽ ὀφθαλμοῖς δρακεῖν,
35 . πάλιν μ᾽ ἔπεμψεν ἐκ δόμων τῶν Λοξίου,
36 . ὡς μήτε σωκεῖν μήτε μ᾽ ἀκταίνειν βάσιν,
37 . τρέχω δὲ χερσίν, οὐ ποδωκείᾳ σκελῶν:
38 . δείσασα γὰρ γραῦς οὐδέν, ἀντίπαις μὲν οὖν.
39 . ἐγὼ μὲν ἕρπω πρὸς πολυστεφῆ μυχόν:
40 . ὁρῶ δ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ὀμφαλῷ μὲν ἄνδρα θεομυσῆ
41 . ἕδραν ἔχοντα προστρόπαιον, αἵματι
42 . στάζοντα χεῖρας καὶ νεοσπαδὲς ξίφος
43 . ἔχοντ᾽ ἐλαίας θ᾽ ὑψιγέννητον κλάδον,
44 . λήνει μεγίστῳ σωφρόνως ἐστεμμένον,
45 . ἀργῆτι μαλλῷ: τῇδε γὰρ τρανῶς ἐρῶ.
46 . πρόσθεν δὲ τἀνδρὸς τοῦδε θαυμαστὸς λόχος
47 . εὕδει γυναικῶν ἐν θρόνοισιν ἥμενος.
48 . οὔτοι γυναῖκας, ἀλλὰ Γοργόνας λέγω,
49 . οὐδ᾽ αὖτε Γοργείοισιν εἰκάσω τύποις.
50 . εἶδόν ποτ᾽ ἤδη Φινέως γεγραμμένας
51 . δεῖπνον φερούσας: ἄπτεροί γε μὴν ἰδεῖν
52 . αὗται, μέλαιναι δ᾽ ἐς τὸ πᾶν βδελύκτροποι:
53 . ῥέγκουσι δ᾽ οὐ πλατοῖσι φυσιάμασιν:
54 . ἐκ δ᾽ ὀμμάτων λείβουσι δυσφιλῆ λίβα:
55 . καὶ κόσμος οὔτε πρὸς θεῶν ἀγάλματα
56 . φέρειν δίκαιος οὔτ᾽ ἐς ἀνθρώπων στέγας.
57 . τὸ φῦλον οὐκ ὄπωπα τῆσδ᾽ ὁμιλίας
58 . οὐδ᾽ ἥτις αἶα τοῦτ᾽ ἐπεύχεται γένος
59 . τρέφουσ᾽ ἀνατεὶ μὴ μεταστένειν πόνον.
60 . τἀντεῦθεν ἤδη τῶνδε δεσπότῃ δόμων
61 . αὐτῷ μελέσθω Λοξίᾳ μεγασθενεῖ.
62 . ἰατρόμαντις δ᾽ ἐστὶ καὶ τερασκόπος
63 . καὶ τοῖσιν ἄλλοις δωμάτων καθάρσιος.
► Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 2.Eumenides. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1926.
scholastical comments on this text:
► Dissertations on the Eumenides of Aeschylus: with the Greek text and critical remarks from the german by Carl Otfried Müller, Cambridge 1835. M.DCCC.XXXV.
B L O G S
► Google Search Results (01012011: 457)
► The Deficiencies of the Roman Calendar by Godwill A. Paul, April 2011
In 45 BC Julius Caesar established a calendar based on a solar year of 365 and ¼ days. In this system, the accumulated ¼ days were dealt with every four years by a convention called the leap year. This calendar, known as the Julian calendar, fixed the normal year at 365 days, and the leap year, every fourth year, at 366 days. Leap year is so named because the extra day causes any date after February in a leap year to “leap” over one day in the week and to occur two days later in the week than it did in the previous year, rather than just one day later as in a normal year. In 44 BC Julius Caesar changed the name of the month Quintilis to Julius (July), after himself and the month Sextilis was renamed Augustus (August) in honor of the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus, who succeeded Julius Caesar.
The Julian calendar became the most acceptable all over the world because it provided a regular standard and eliminated most of the inconsistencies in the other forms of calendars. The Julian calendar also established the other of the months and days of the week as it exists in the current calendar. There have been several considerations about a more suitable calendar and so many methods of arriving at the most suitable format of the calendar has been propounded over the years but none has been approved. However, the Julian was fine tuned to produce the Gregorian calendar which is still in vogue.
► My Geeky Resolution: Write in the Margins by Jonathan Liu, January 1, 2011
{ECHOES: @technologywebblog | @tweetmeme | @treehugger | @floridatoday | @family matters | @dads matters | @parenting matters | @technoded}
... I like the idea of leaving a trail behind me when I make my way through a book. It’s like dropping a few bread crumbs or pebbles so that I can follow them on my next journey, or leaving a message for the next person to read the book. I like the idea that my library could be more than just a collection of books on shelves, but that they could actually tell a story about who I am, in my own words.
So that brings me to my New Year’s Resolution for 2011. This year, I’m going to try to get over my reluctance to mark in my books. I’ll probably start with pencil, and maybe I’ll never progress to pens and highlighters. I certainly don’t see myself marking up a text like the image above. But at the very least, I’ll put a date in a book when I’ve read it, maybe the date and place I acquired it.
Of course, probably I’ll end up switching to ebooks this year and all of this will be moot.
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Eumenides with an inscribed calendar
Eumenides {1-63: .gr | .de}:
1-5 | 6-10 | 11-15 | 16-20: Pentaden of the solonic calendarium.
21-30: The last days of the 29-days-months or 30-days-months were counted backwards.
30: Caesura (Diairesis) falls in between the 'ME' and the 'TWN'. Meton was an astronomer. His concept of a reform of the greek calendar was adopted in 432 BC, i.e. at the change from the hellenic to hellenistic epoche.
The marginalia, annotations and inscriptions were written during 1989/90 in Berlin-Schöneberg by me onto the pages 186-189 of the book Aeschylus: Tragödien und Fragmente. Hrsg. u. übers. von Oskar Werner. Artemis 4. Auflage 1988.
: : . Πυθιάς . : :
01 . πρῶτον μὲν εὐχῇ τῇδε πρεσβεύω θεῶν
02 . τὴν πρωτόμαντιν Γαῖαν: ἐκ δὲ τῆς Θέμιν,
03 . ἣ δὴ τὸ μητρὸς δευτέρα τόδ᾽ ἕζετο
04 . μαντεῖον, ὡς λόγος τις: ἐν δὲ τῷ τρίτῳ
05 . λάχει, θελούσης, οὐδὲ πρὸς βίαν τινός,
06 . Τιτανὶς ἄλλη παῖς Χθονὸς καθέζετο,
07 . Φοίβη: δίδωσι δ᾽ ἣ γενέθλιον δόσιν
08 . Φοίβῳ: τὸ Φοίβης δ᾽ ὄνομ᾽ ἔχει παρώνυμον.
09 . λιπὼν δὲ λίμνην Δηλίαν τε χοιράδα,
10 . κέλσας ἐπ᾽ ἀκτὰς ναυπόρους τὰς Παλλάδος,
11 . ἐς τήνδε γαῖαν ἦλθε Παρνησοῦ θ᾽ ἕδρας.
12 . πέμπουσι δ᾽ αὐτὸν καὶ σεβίζουσιν μέγα
13 . κελευθοποιοὶ παῖδες Ἡφαίστου, χθόνα
14 . ἀνήμερον τιθέντες ἡμερωμένην.
15 . μολόντα δ᾽ αὐτὸν κάρτα τιμαλφεῖ λεώς,
16 . Δελφός τε χώρας τῆσδε πρυμνήτης ἄναξ.
17 . τέχνης δέ νιν Ζεὺς ἔνθεον κτίσας φρένα
18 . ἵζει τέταρτον τοῖσδε μάντιν ἐν θρόνοις:
19 . Διὸς προφήτης δ᾽ ἐστὶ Λοξίας πατρός.
20 . τούτους ἐν εὐχαῖς φροιμιάζομαι θεούς.
21 . Παλλὰς προναία δ᾽ ἐν λόγοις πρεσβεύεται:
22 . σέβω δὲ νύμφας, ἔνθα Κωρυκὶς πέτρα
23 . κοίλη, φίλορνις, δαιμόνων ἀναστροφή:
24 . Βρόμιος ἔχει τὸν χῶρον, οὐδ᾽ ἀμνημονῶ,
25 . ἐξ οὗτε Βάκχαις ἐστρατήγησεν θεός,
26 . λαγὼ δίκην Πενθεῖ καταρράψας μόρον:
27 . Πλειστοῦ τε πηγὰς καὶ Ποσειδῶνος κράτος
28 . καλοῦσα καὶ τέλειον ὕψιστον Δία,
29 . ἔπειτα μάντις ἐς θρόνους καθιζάνω.
30 . καὶ νῦν τυχεῖν με τῶν πρὶν εἰσόδων μακρῷ
31 . ἄριστα δοῖεν: κεἰ παρ᾽ Ἑλλήνων τινές,
32 . ἴτων πάλῳ λαχόντες, ὡς νομίζεται.
33 . μαντεύομαι γὰρ ὡς ἂν ἡγῆται θεός.
34 . ἦ δεινὰ λέξαι, δεινὰ δ᾽ ὀφθαλμοῖς δρακεῖν,
35 . πάλιν μ᾽ ἔπεμψεν ἐκ δόμων τῶν Λοξίου,
36 . ὡς μήτε σωκεῖν μήτε μ᾽ ἀκταίνειν βάσιν,
37 . τρέχω δὲ χερσίν, οὐ ποδωκείᾳ σκελῶν:
38 . δείσασα γὰρ γραῦς οὐδέν, ἀντίπαις μὲν οὖν.
39 . ἐγὼ μὲν ἕρπω πρὸς πολυστεφῆ μυχόν:
40 . ὁρῶ δ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ὀμφαλῷ μὲν ἄνδρα θεομυσῆ
41 . ἕδραν ἔχοντα προστρόπαιον, αἵματι
42 . στάζοντα χεῖρας καὶ νεοσπαδὲς ξίφος
43 . ἔχοντ᾽ ἐλαίας θ᾽ ὑψιγέννητον κλάδον,
44 . λήνει μεγίστῳ σωφρόνως ἐστεμμένον,
45 . ἀργῆτι μαλλῷ: τῇδε γὰρ τρανῶς ἐρῶ.
46 . πρόσθεν δὲ τἀνδρὸς τοῦδε θαυμαστὸς λόχος
47 . εὕδει γυναικῶν ἐν θρόνοισιν ἥμενος.
48 . οὔτοι γυναῖκας, ἀλλὰ Γοργόνας λέγω,
49 . οὐδ᾽ αὖτε Γοργείοισιν εἰκάσω τύποις.
50 . εἶδόν ποτ᾽ ἤδη Φινέως γεγραμμένας
51 . δεῖπνον φερούσας: ἄπτεροί γε μὴν ἰδεῖν
52 . αὗται, μέλαιναι δ᾽ ἐς τὸ πᾶν βδελύκτροποι:
53 . ῥέγκουσι δ᾽ οὐ πλατοῖσι φυσιάμασιν:
54 . ἐκ δ᾽ ὀμμάτων λείβουσι δυσφιλῆ λίβα:
55 . καὶ κόσμος οὔτε πρὸς θεῶν ἀγάλματα
56 . φέρειν δίκαιος οὔτ᾽ ἐς ἀνθρώπων στέγας.
57 . τὸ φῦλον οὐκ ὄπωπα τῆσδ᾽ ὁμιλίας
58 . οὐδ᾽ ἥτις αἶα τοῦτ᾽ ἐπεύχεται γένος
59 . τρέφουσ᾽ ἀνατεὶ μὴ μεταστένειν πόνον.
60 . τἀντεῦθεν ἤδη τῶνδε δεσπότῃ δόμων
61 . αὐτῷ μελέσθω Λοξίᾳ μεγασθενεῖ.
62 . ἰατρόμαντις δ᾽ ἐστὶ καὶ τερασκόπος
63 . καὶ τοῖσιν ἄλλοις δωμάτων καθάρσιος.
► Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 2.Eumenides. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1926.
scholastical comments on this text:
► Dissertations on the Eumenides of Aeschylus: with the Greek text and critical remarks from the german by Carl Otfried Müller, Cambridge 1835. M.DCCC.XXXV.
B L O G S
► Google Search Results (01012011: 457)
► The Deficiencies of the Roman Calendar by Godwill A. Paul, April 2011
In 45 BC Julius Caesar established a calendar based on a solar year of 365 and ¼ days. In this system, the accumulated ¼ days were dealt with every four years by a convention called the leap year. This calendar, known as the Julian calendar, fixed the normal year at 365 days, and the leap year, every fourth year, at 366 days. Leap year is so named because the extra day causes any date after February in a leap year to “leap” over one day in the week and to occur two days later in the week than it did in the previous year, rather than just one day later as in a normal year. In 44 BC Julius Caesar changed the name of the month Quintilis to Julius (July), after himself and the month Sextilis was renamed Augustus (August) in honor of the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus, who succeeded Julius Caesar.
The Julian calendar became the most acceptable all over the world because it provided a regular standard and eliminated most of the inconsistencies in the other forms of calendars. The Julian calendar also established the other of the months and days of the week as it exists in the current calendar. There have been several considerations about a more suitable calendar and so many methods of arriving at the most suitable format of the calendar has been propounded over the years but none has been approved. However, the Julian was fine tuned to produce the Gregorian calendar which is still in vogue.
► My Geeky Resolution: Write in the Margins by Jonathan Liu, January 1, 2011
{ECHOES: @technologywebblog | @tweetmeme | @treehugger | @floridatoday | @family matters | @dads matters | @parenting matters | @technoded}
... I like the idea of leaving a trail behind me when I make my way through a book. It’s like dropping a few bread crumbs or pebbles so that I can follow them on my next journey, or leaving a message for the next person to read the book. I like the idea that my library could be more than just a collection of books on shelves, but that they could actually tell a story about who I am, in my own words.
So that brings me to my New Year’s Resolution for 2011. This year, I’m going to try to get over my reluctance to mark in my books. I’ll probably start with pencil, and maybe I’ll never progress to pens and highlighters. I certainly don’t see myself marking up a text like the image above. But at the very least, I’ll put a date in a book when I’ve read it, maybe the date and place I acquired it.
Of course, probably I’ll end up switching to ebooks this year and all of this will be moot.
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01022011, 11:30: .... 264
01022011: 15:53: .... 276
01042011: 15:53: .... 316