February 2012
35 posts
7 tags
3 tags
6 tags
5 tags
4 tags
6 tags
1 tag
7 tags
3 tags
4 tags
2 tags
5 tags
8 tags
4 tags
5 tags
2 tags
6 tags
3 tags
2 tags
The Aporeticus: Argos, dog of Odysseus →
superfluidity:
mills:
At the end of The Odyssey, Odysseus returns home in disguise after two decades of war and wandering; his old swineherd, Eumeaus, taking him for a stranger, walks him across his property and nearby his old dog, occasioning one of the earliest sentimental descriptions of the human-canine bond…
I’ve always loved this passage for exactly the reason Mills points out. It’s...
4 tags
3 tags
3 tags
1 tag
3 tags
4 tags
2 tags
3 tags
5 tags
4 tags
3 tags
5 tags
3 tags
4 tags
4 tags
4 tags