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AQUÍLIX, THE HERO IRREDUCIBLE

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lecturing irony, what danger!, I speak from experience. Is that, as Galician, ironic little game I have a tendency to (resonances Socratic ...). Be ironic with your friends, the mayor of your town, with the keeper of the park - but if you're not with your students, because a significant percentage of cases to trust the teacher for the most outrageous. It happened to me this time I said in the course of Greek incipientibus that, at the end of the semester, we would do a review of ancient Greek conversation on a topical issue - and there were those who believed it, of course.

Never use irony lecturing and never laugh at your students when you correct the tests. I've never understood the obsession of some to accumulate "anthologies of nonsense", like funny to laugh at mistakes made by students when writing under pressure.

But today I bite my tongue. Is that I can not forget the charming nonsense that I found yesterday in a review which said that the mother of Achilles dipped his offspring in a pot to make it invulnerable.

Tui In I read like crazy Asterix and Obelix. In Madrid I read the Iliad and even wrote a thesis on ancient Greek epic. Both time spent on these two passions, and I do not know anything about the relationship between the son of Peleus ( Brad Pitt, for Wolfgang Petersen's friends ) and the fat King of the menhirs, good Obelix, who as a child fell into the magic potion Panorámix.

I join my two passions in this post dedicated to that being syncretic I have discovered my alumn @:

Aquílix, the uncompromising hero, whom his mother plunged into a pot to make it invulnerable - pity that, in giving such a bath, was attached to the heel!

Joseph B. Torres Guerra

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ALEXANDER THE GREAT: MAN, KING, HERO (II)

IN GREEK TEXTS ON OLD ALEJANDRO

Nada más morir Alejandro surgió una especie de “historiografía de urgencia”, representada por los llamados “historiadores de Alejandro”, a los que sólo hemos conservado en forma de fragmentos; se trata de autores que escriben a caballo entre los SS. IV-III a. C.

1. El primero de ellos es Tolomeo Lago, compañero directo de Alejandro (fue su escudero, su σωματοφύλαξ), el fundador de la dinastía Tolemaica o Lágida: fue faraón de Egipto con el nombre de Tolomeo I y escribió para corregir a otros autores anteriores, a partir de sus conocimientos, obtained firsthand.

• We know something of the work of Ptolemy through Arrian. This, in S. II d. C., used it as their main source Anabasis of Alexander, opposing what was said by Ptolemy to the information of the "Vulgate" (τὰ λεγόμενα).
• Under what Arrian says, it seems that Ptolemy was interested in his work, especially by the military and political, much less by the geographical and ethnographic.
• addition, Ptolemy used the diary of Alexander's headquarters, the Ephemeris written under the direction of Eumenes of Cardia and Eritrean Diodotus.

2. Olinto Calisthenics is another important figure in this group of historians. Was the grand nephew of Aristotle. Must have been born to the 370 a. C. He accompanied his uncle to the court of Macedonia.

• worked as a writer in the service of Macedonia, thus celebrated the exploits of Alexander, who was accompanied on his expeditions in Ἀλεξάνδρου πράξεις.
• fell from grace But the question of proskýnesis, the ritual of worship, worshiping the sovereign, Alejandro copied from the Persians. Therefore, was executed in 327 a. C.
• Callisthenes be withheld from the outset that he was credited with the most influential novels of Alexander (see below). And he blamed because the fantasy elements present in that work and had to be authentic in his writings.
• That is, in the authentic work of Callisthenes and was due to present Alexander as anything more than a man.

3. Clitarco wrote to the 310 a. C., et tragic rhetoric, according to Cicero.

• chronicled the life of Alexander since the rise the throne until his death.
• is an important figure because his work (full of novelistic features) seems to be on the basis of why we called before "the Vulgate" version released in the history of Alexander, opposite or different from the accounts of Ptolemy, Arrian and the "serious historiography."

could cite at least six other writers from the so-called "historians of Alexander": Onesicritus, Aris of Cassandreia, Mytilene Cares ..

Of these Onesicritus I mean just because he, who had participated in the expeditions of Alexander, he began to write his death and made him a hero of a peculiar kind:

• The philosophical features endowed cynical.
• It is therefore regrettable that his work has not been preserved.

After the "historiography of urgency", composed shortly after Alexander's death, will be written about the king of Macedonia from different perspectives:

• sometimes be more serious (Plutarch, Arrian)
• while that, sometimes, be more popular literature.

In connection with "serious historians" we can say something about Arrian (I will not speaking of Plutarch, in relation to remind him that his Life of Alexander is highly recommended reading - is also published in several popular collections):

ARIANISM

can be read Arrian in the translation of A. Guzmán Guerra (trans.), Arrian. Anabasis of Alexander, Madrid, Gredos, 1982 (2 volumes).

born between 85 and 90 d. C. and died about 170. Age of Nicomedia (Turkey).

disciple of Epictetus, in his time was best known as a philosopher and historian. But his own philosophical works (do not talk about his edition of the Diatribes of Epictetus) are lost or retained fragments.

apparently in his fifties when he left Rome and the imperial administration (he had been consul in 130), then headed to Athens, where he had to engage in historiography: it sees itself as "the new Xenophon , and therefore writes

• Lives lost, in imitation of Xenophon model (who wrote a Agesilaus) ;
• writes his Anabasis [of Alexander] that as Xenophon, consists of seven books: it imitates the style of his model.
• Arrian notes, among most historians of Alexander, because it strives to write a story that is not fantastic and it complies with the facts.
• therefore used as sources, above all, Ptolemy and Aristobulus, Alexander's contemporaries and witnesses of what they narrate.
• Moreover, it is questionable Arrian preference for the narrative of military events and less attention to the political aspects of his character.

The introduction to the work of Arrian is this:

transcribe and I believe as true all those stories in which match Ptolemy son of Lagus and Aristobulus son of Aristobulus, both historians of Alexander, son of Philip, but of those that differ, I selected that I thought, while, more reliable and more interesting to be told. And others have written about Alexander (no, indeed, anyone who has done about as many historians, or more discordant with each other), but Ptolemy and Aristobulus, in my opinion, are the most credible, Aris for participating in the expedition along with King Alexander, Ptolemy, as well as because of that, it would have been misrepresenting the facts to him as king, more shameful than for any another. Moreover, given that Alexander was dead when they wrote each other, both were equally outside do differently to how the events occurred, porno-inhibited be expected of him or reward.

Joseph B. Torres Guerra

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ALEJANDRO MAGNO: MAN, KING, HERO (I)

In late November of this year I spent two days in our institution Tudela talking about heroes in the framework of this activity .

For

I dedicate this blog four innings of the last hero I spoke of Alexander the Great, one of my myths of children through the biography of the character who had written a fictional Joseph LaCie the former editorial Bruguera.

I note that what I talked about in the West Bank was not history but the recreation of Alexander in the literature of antiquity and the Middle East: its conversion into flesh and soul legend.

OF HEROES AND MEN

hear about and think of heroes Achilles, Odysseus, Heracles, Oedipus, Theseus ... Asclepius and perhaps as much as Orfeo. But here things are going in another direction for now let's talk, while the hero, of a historical character of S. IV a. C., not a demigod, not a man who lived at the time of the demigods ...

Let's talk about Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia.

I

heroization begin by recalling that the real, historical figures is a phenomenon occurring among the Greeks came much earlier.

In fact, "real men" is the latest heroes category identified in the analytical classification of LR Farnell, Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality, Oxford, 1921. Among

• "Real men" heroizados there were then, as now, athletes: no players (although it looks ! ) but boxers, and among these was heroizado, p. eg., euthymic of Locri, winner in boxing at Olympia in three Olympics.
• received a cult hero in life, according to Bruno Currie studied in a 2002 article: "Euthymos of Locri: A Case Study in Heroization in the Classical Period."
• Pausanias (6.6.5) transmits the legend of the son of the Cecina river god: the ascription of divine genealogy is a typical procedure heroization. According to Pausanias euthymic
• also made truly heroic actions in Temesa faced a monstrous ghost (the Hero, "the hero") to save a girl who was going to be given to the tribute, cf. Paus. 6.6.7-10:

When he returned to Italy [euthymic] fought against the Hero. His story is as follows: (...). Euthymic, who had come to meet Temesa when the rituals of the spirit, he learned what was happening and felt like entering the temple and see the girl. When he saw her, at first he felt compassion, then love for her. The girl swore that she would marry If you save it, and euthymic armed himself and waited the attack of God. Won the fight and the hero was expelled and disappeared diving in the sea. Euthymic had a glorious wedding and there's men were forever free spirit.

• Jack Donnelly (06/06/1910), euthymic lived well into old age itself an Old Testament patriarch.
• and euthymic was not an isolated example: it is similar for Teógenes of Thassos, another boxer, mid-century V a. C.

Alexander was obviously a historical figure, yet the fact is that around his figure legends should forge in very early, perhaps even in your own life, how unusual your business: Remember that Alexander

transcends the political space of the polis to create a universal empire based in Greece. It is worth recalling some facts about his life:

• Alexander, king of Macedonia, named Alexander, had to live between 356 and 323 a. C.;
• was the son of Philip II of Macedonia and Olympias;
• from the victories achieved by his father, Philip II could bring their power to all Greek cities;
• the war began after the Persian Empire , whom he defeated;
• arrived in its desire for conquest, to the Indian Ocean and India;
• however, did die a fever in Babylon at a young age ("Thirty-three?), favoring, of course, the creation of "myth" around him.

The Dictionary of myths Garcia Gual this figure by Alexander as a "myth" more.

The four entries that begin to devote Alexander

• refer to ancient Greek sources on Alexander, a more historical, more legendary others;
• also lend special attention to Pseudo-Callisthenes and tradition converge upon it, I want to present and former base on which further developed the whole legend of Alexander;
• for it, speak far less important literary authors such as Plutarch or Arrian.

remember, however, that the figure of Alexander also interested in the Latin authors. It is very interesting, for example, the work of Quintus Curtius Rufus: History of Alexander the Great, as translated Gredos (1986): reading does not disappoint.

• The author is a mystery: we know who you are very complex place it chronologically.
• The work is preserved in fragmentary: we have five books almost complete, reaching out to Alexander's death, but lack the story of his early years. Curcio testified
• admiration for the grandiose figure of Alexander (courageous, generous, magnanimous), but also highlights its shortcomings: the anger, the tendency to drunkenness, the vanity that leads him to be seduced by the East ...: the defects are crescendo as factional disputes among the Macedonians (many of which eliminate Alejandro).

Joseph B. Torres Guerra

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Callimachus, Hymn to Demeter

almost a year ago I published an entry that included my unpublished translation of Hymn to Zeus of Callimachus . In that entry Callimachus commented on the existence of elements of humor, grotesque elements that may not sympathize with the image contained in a Callimachus "author-of-poetry-in-china."
There is plenty of grotesque (the greedy) in the Hymn to Demeter that now hang in some way to complete that entry of January 2010.
Erysichthon There is much greed in the central character of myth and text. And there are many literary voracity much effort to aemulatio the poet of Cyrene, situated at the risk of trying to sing again Demeter items Homeric Hymn dedicated to this goddess, choose an episode radically different from divine life, marginal if you will, equipped with an innovative force, grotesque, almost cannibalistic.

Shopping

While returns to sing the chorus, women:
"Hail, Hail, Demeter, which many young, rich wheat!"
The basket will contemplate returning from the ground, the uninitiated:
and neither from the roof or from the top peep
or girl or woman, not even her hair is loose, even when
spit in our mouths, dried by fasting.
The Hesperus, from the clouds, is set (when you return?)
the Hesperus, the only Demeter
convinced to drink when he walked in the footsteps of the kidnapped girl inscrutable.
Lady, how could they take your feet to the West,
to Blacks and where golden apples grow?
not drank or ate during that time, nor did you wash. Thrice
walked through the silver-Achelous eddies
crossed each other many of the rivers that flow forever,
and ground three times you sat by the well Calícoro,
suffocated without drinking, and did not eat or you washed.
No, do not mention these things that provoked tears Deo. Best
say how pleasant the cities laws granted;
better to say how the sacred pole and spike strokes
first mowed and the oxen made the trod,
when Triptolemus learned the noble art. Best
say (so that we avoid sacrilege) how
[the wicked son of Tríopas reduced him to a shadowy figure].


yet Cnidia occupied the land, still inhabited the sacred Doti,
and in that place a beautiful grove planted Pelasgians
dense, full of trees, would have barely crossed arrow. There
pine, there was high elm, pear and apple
and beautiful sweet fruit, the water bubbled amber
in ditches. The goddess was pleased with the place, as well as with Eleusis
with Tríopas as with Ena.
But when the good Lord was angry with triópidas,
then the worst of the machinations seized Erysichthon .
came out with momentum carrying twenty servants, all in the prime of life, men
all of the stature of a giant, capable of lifting an entire city,
those who had been armed with axes so as safely;
the race arrived, shameless people, the grove of Demeter .
was a poplar tree touched the sky high;
in proximity to the nymphs at midday repose. This
, beaten the first, singing for others a terrible song. Demeter
He realized that his suffering sacred forest,
irritated and said: "Who is logging my beautiful trees?" Instantly Nicipa
(which the city had appointed her priestess
official) adopted appearance, and he took
airs and poppy, the man was carrying a key.
And he said, trying to appease the wicked and shameless man:
"Son, you that the gods enshrined trees, logging,
child to, son, so longed for by your parents,
leave, and the servants stop them, not
angry at something the venerable Demeter, whose shrine Mancillas. "
After looking at it grimly, the more fiercely than a man,
a hunter, used in the mountains of a lioness
Tmar postpartum whose eyes say is the fiercest,
"Retire," he said, "do not key in the body ax immense!
These trees roofed my home, where the mood
Facilities pleasing forever endlessly celebrate with my friends. "
said the youngster, and Nemesis noted his evil words. Demeter was angry
so unspeakable and again became goddess
his feet trod the earth, but his head touched the Olympus.

Some, half dead after the sovereign were,
to point away, leaving the bronze in the trees she
others are unconcerned, they were forced
the mandate of his master, but their stern master replied
"Yes, yes! Constrúyete a palace (dog, but dog!) Which
Facilities do, that in future meals await constant. "
She said this, the styling Erysichthon misfortune.
The point sent a terrible famine and wild
burning, very strong, a serious illness consumed him. Unhappy
! By consuming everything back to have desire. Twenty
were busy with food, twelve poured the wine.
And Demeter was angry with Dionysus:
the same thing that offends Dionysus Demeter also offended. Neither
parties or banquets of comrades sent,
shame, his parents were all kinds of excuses. Came
Ormen, calling contests Itonia
of Athena. Well, his mother refused the invitation:
"Not at home since yesterday walk on his way to Crannon,
to claim a debt of a hundred oxen." Polixo arrived,
Actorión mother when he was preparing the wedding of his son,
to invite the two, Tríopas and their offspring.
At this the woman, ruefully, he answered with tears:
"Tríopas, yes, go, but it reached a boar Erysichthon
in Pindo of beautiful canyons, nine days since we are lying. " Mother
unhappy, loving your child, what lies did not you say?
Someone gave a party: "Erysichthon are traveling." Someone took
wife: "A Erysichthon it hit a record,"
or "He fell off the wagon" or "Keep track of his sheep in Othrys."
In the depths of the house then, feasting all day,
ate everything in huge quantities. Her stomach swelled abominable
the more I eat, as in the deep sea food
fell all for nothing, to no avail. Mimante
As in the snow, like a doll wax in the sun, further
they melted it down to nerves, that the unfortunate
just skin and bones remained.
cried the mother, was terribly afflicted the two sisters,
the nurse who nursed him and countless servants. Even the Tríopas
tore his gray hair,
while these protests had to Poseidon, who was not attending:
"unnatural father!, Look at this, the third counting from you, if I
you and Canace eólida'm the lineage, and me to turn this miserable
born offspring. I wish I had my hands
buried after being shot through Apollo.
Now a perverse appetite, insatiable, camping in his eyes.
deliver him from this terrible disease, or feed him
yourself, taking your position, that my tables do not give more.
Deserts are my pens, my
empty stables and herds, because nothing was denied the cooks.
addition, the mules the unyoke of large cars,
and ate the cow that his mother raised to Hestia,
and horse racing, and the war,
and weasel, to which shook the small beasts.
While the remaining wealth Tríopas house, home stays
only knew misfortune. But when those teeth
drying pantries had the house,
then the king's son took up residence at the crossroads, begging for a snack
and waste, scorned, in the banquet.

Demeter, which i am not pleased that that is hateful to you, we do not live
wall to wall, the evil neighbors hate me cause.

(...) girls, and sing the chorus, which have given birth:
"Hail, Hail, Demeter, which many young, rich wheat!"
And radiant mane mares carry the basket
in number of four, so to us the great God, mighty sovereign,
come, bringing the radiant spring, bright summer, winter and autumn
and protect us for another year.
And, without shoes and with heads uncovered the city we go, well
feet and heads will forever free.
And, as the carriers of the carrying baskets full of gold, gold
no fee and we will get them. That they continue to
Prytaneum city
the uninitiated and those that are, to march to the goddess,
those who are under sixty. But those with disability, both
that reaches out to Ilitía as suffering pain,
them enough for them this, they can not force their members. A Deo
they will give you anything more than, as if they had come to his temple.

health, God, this city
keep in harmony and prosperity in the field and produces everything in abundance. Make
oxen thrive, make fruits and spikes emerge, do you get the harvest also thrive
make peace, so that one plow, who also is harvested. Seme
favors, you, to which three times he pleads, sovereign, powerful among the goddesses.

Joseph B. Torres Guerra