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I'll start by first reproducing the Greek and then a variety of translations. καὶ τὸ φῶς ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ φαίνει, καὶ ἡ σκοτία αὐτὸ οὐ κατέλαβεν. (NA28) Here are translations from Douay-Rheims, KJV, NIV and ESV. And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
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It was probably through Persian Zoroastrianism that the equation of Light and God was first made. But Ahura Mazda (whose name means Light Wisdom) was not opposed to Angra Mainyuon account of darkness – the name of that entity means "malign spirit" or "destructive mentality". Genesis begins with darkness upon the face of the deep, until God encompas...
There's a dissertation to be done on Shakespeare and darkness. So many scenes depend upon it – from Henry V touring the troops incognito, to the Porter in Macbeth unwittingly realising his role in murkier deeds, to the "darkness" of the Dark Lady. Night in Shakespeare is different from darkness – night is where identities are confused, conflated an...
"No light, but rather darkness visible": in 10 syllables Milton conjures the paradox of Hell. What makes these lines so moving is not just the intellectual sprezzatura (his Inferno is not geographical, like Dante, but metaphysical and impossible), but our knowledge that he was probably already blind when he dictated the line. In his ineffably movin...
Dark is also Dark Ages; and Pope describes the horror of cultural apocalypse better than anyone. Let's let him speak for himself: In vain, in vain, — the all-composing Hour Resistless falls: The Muse obeys the Pow'r. She comes! she comes! the sable Throne behold Of Night Primæval, and of Chaos old Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all it...
To all depressives, here, today and everywhere, at least know someone else has trod this path. The real darkness was never a matter of light. I WAKE and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hoürs we have spent This night! what sights you, heart, saw; ways you went! And more must, in yet longer light's delay. With witness I speak...
Jul 24, 2011 · Torches in myth and cult are also discussed, though one can challenge the statement “In Greek art, there is no painting of night” (137), since the visual quality of darkness being un-depicted cannot preclude night-scenes understood as such.
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Mar 1, 2023 · The Iliad is widely regarded as the earliest example of written literature in ancient Greece. Before the eighth century BCE, Greek literature was composed and transmitted orally, without the use of writing.
5. Daedalus and Icarus. The story of Icarus is one of the most famous tales from Greek myth. Icarus was the son of Daedalus, the craftsman who built the Labyrinth from the Minotaur story recounted above. Ever the inventor, Daedalus fashioned some wings out of feathers and wax, for him and his son to use to fly their way off the island of Crete.
Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion is a ground-breaking volume dedicated to a thorough examination of the well known empirical categories of light and darkness as it relates to modes of thought, beliefs and social behavior in Greek culture.
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Jul 31, 2017 · Today, no one thinks there has been a stage in humanity when some colours were ‘not yet’ being perceived. Another explanation for the apparent oddness of Greek perception came from the eminent politician and Hellenist William Gladstone, who devoted a chapter of his Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age (1858) to ‘perceptions and use of ...
