Treasure
Snake Island
Sophocles Ajax, R. C. Trevelyan,
The Complete Greek Drama (Two Volumes)
Heralds
Marriage of Medea and Achilles
Suibne
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In the Iliad, Ajax is notable for his abundant strength and courage, seen particularly in two fights with Hector. In Book 7, Ajax is chosen by lot to meet Hector in a duel which lasts most of a whole day. Ajax at first gets the better of the encounter, wounding Hector with his spear and knocking him down with a large stone,[7] but Hector battles on until the heralds, acting at the direction of Zeus, call a draw, with the two combatants exchanging gifts, Ajax giving Hector a purple sash and Hector giving Ajax his sharp sword.
Ovid's Heroides are literary fantasies that offer should-have-been correspondence between partners such as Dido and Aeneas or Acontius and Cydippe, a letter from Penelope to Odysseus or Sappho to Phaon. Invented correspondence between Medea and Achilles would have been a precious conceit by the Roman master of erotic poetry. Maybe the practical side of Ovid's realism intervened: Medea, after all, has got to be a neat generation older than Achilles. Achilles is the offspring of a union formed during the voyage of the Argo, when the ship and crew were on their way to Colchis. Medea is going to be at least 15 years older than Achilles. ... Details, details. Maybe somebody needs to write this poem: a pair of epistles ala Ovid's Heroides between Achilles and Medea.
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Achilles' armour was the object of a feud between Odysseus and Telamonian Ajax (Ajax the greater). They competed for it by giving speeches on why they were the bravest after Achilles to their Trojan prisoners, who, after considering both men's presentations, decided Odysseus was more deserving of the armour. Furious, Ajax cursed Odysseus, which earned him the ire of Athena, who temporarily made Ajax so mad with grief and anguish that he began killing sheep, thinking them his comrades. After a while, when Athena lifted his madness and Ajax realized that he had actually been killing sheep, he was so ashamed that he committed suicide. Odysseus eventually gave the armour to Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles. When Odysseus encounters the shade of Ajax much later in the House of Hades (Odyssey 11.543–566), Ajax is still so angry about the outcome of the competition that he refuses to speak to Odysseus.
The island was named by the Greeks Leuke (Greek: Λευκή, "White Island") and was similarly known by Romans as Alba, probably because of the white marble formations that can be found on the isle. According to Dionysius Periegetes, it was called Leuke, because the serpents there were white.[12] According to Arrian, it was called Leuke due to its color.[13] He and Stephanus of Byzantium mentioned that the island was also referred to as the Island of Achilles (Greek: Ἀχιλλέως νῆσος[13] and Ἀχίλλεια νῆσος[14]).
The island was sacred to the hero Achilles and had a temple of the hero with a statue inside.[15] Solinus wrote that on the island there was a sacred shrine.[16] According to Arrian in the temple there were many offerings to Achilles and Patroclus.[13] Furthermore, people came to the island and sacrificed or set animals free in honour of Achilles.[17] He also added that people said that Achilles and Patroclus appeared in front of them as hallucinations or in their dreams while they were approaching the coast of the island or sailing a short distance from it.[18] Pliny the Elder wrote that the tomb of the hero was on the island.[19]
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According to a surviving epitome of the lost Trojan War epic of Arctinus of Miletus, the remains of Achilles and Patroclus were brought to this island by Thetis, to be put in a sanctuary, furnishing the aition, or founding myth of the Hellenic cult of Achilles centred here. According to another myth Thetis gave the island to Achilles and let him live there.[13] The oracle of Delphi sent Leonymus (other writers called him Autoleon[22]) to the Island, telling him that there Ajax the Great would appear to him and cure his wound.[23] Leonymus said that on the island he saw Achilles, Ajax the Great, Ajax the Lesser, Patroclus, Antilochus and Helen. In addition, Helen told him to go to Stesichorus at Himera and tell him that the loss of his sight was caused by her wrath.[24] Pomponius Mela wrote that Achilles was buried there.[25]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_Island_(Ukraine)#History_and_mythology
Buile Shuibhne or Buile Suibne[a] (Irish pronunciation: [ˈbˠɪlʲə ˈhɪvʲnʲə], The Madness of Suibhne or Suibhne's Frenzy) is a medieval Irish tale about Suibhne mac Colmáin, king of the Dál nAraidi, who was driven insane by the curse of Saint Rónán Finn. The insanity makes Suibhne leave the Battle of Mag Rath and begin a life of wandering (which earns him the nickname Suibne Geilt or "Suibhne the Madman"). He dies under the refuge of St. Moling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buile_Shuibhne
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Notes: Game on...on the radio...Rays at Angels...bottom of third...scoreless...Rendon with a walk off winning single yesterday...was wearing a Rendon T-shirt, a giveaway at the Friday night game against the Nationals that I went to....Angels won that one too...Saturday they lost...now, I've been going to the Goodwill stores, and garage sales, posting the "treasures" I find, and, and as it happens, I have a garage full of this stuff...my own collected treasures, accumulated personal things, boxed up in storage in the garage...time about to go through it all, make the three piles: one to toss, one to give away, one to keep...gonna take awhile, as I get lost in revery looking at my own old stuff!...anyway, I left off and took the two volume set of the plays to my room to read, by chance alighted on Sophocles Ajax...Ajax I've been noting in relation to Achilles, as I've gone and written another Black Deck Tale, The Marriage of Medea and Achilles...there are no "complete Greek Plays"...it's all an archipelago of fragments...a metaphor for my own stuff!...there is no complete Black Deck Tales...like maybe five percent of what was written back then is still around, and a lot of that is so obscure it never gets looked at...about the marriage: it wasn't that urging that led to the Tale, rather that in my Women Can Do No Wrong, I resurrected Achilles, and left off with him plowing a farmer's field; and in the Black Deck Tales (see post Oct. 31, 2016) I left Medea in the Northern Reach, singing, having become Queen of the Black Dragon's thereabout...I caught mention that Euripides had married them in a lost play, so, soh, did searches: Achilles, Medea, Marriage...National 1-0...bottom of fourth...Trout with base hit...oh, Women Can Do No Wrong is my Kindel play available on amazon...Ohtani gets a gift, high fly ball dropped...lost in high sky/lights?...Rendon up...line out..."that is well hit, outa here!"...Walsh delivers!...where was I ?...so, soh, I've had the wonder, what happened to Achilles, and his armor!???...welp, I'm reading along about Ajax, and find mention he was buried on an island, with the little side note, the same island where Achilles was buried...the island?...Snake Island!!!...the self same island so much in the news...go figure...Ajax goes mad much like Hercules, Hercules' madness and the atoning twelve labors I've lifted for the plot of another Black Deck Tale, "After Today"...beginning fragments posted back a ways...the Greek's discovered what the comic books have, creating an mythos leads to creating more of it!...the Marvel Universe, the DC Universe...Disney did this with the Pirates of the Carribbean...the movies offshoots of the ride at Disneyland!...Angels 3-1...I'd post the Marriage Tale, but want to submit it...a what to do, what to do...now, I found the above pic of the Heradls at the fight between Ajax and Hector...this, this relates to the story of Suibne related by Robert Graves...his take was Subiene took offense at the negotiations of the Druids?Heeralds of the opposing sides, negotiating a battle...he threw a spear at them, missed, and a Druid threw a hand full of straw back, and charmed Suibne with the flying sickness...he grew feathers and stayed in the tree tops, poetically pontficating about this and that!...top of sixth...Sondegard pitching well for the Angels...reliever brought in for Angels...to the bottom of sixth...bbk with report...oh!...back to back home runs...Trout and Ohtani...Angels 6-1...too much...
...bk...aaaand, Ohtani hits a grand slam...Angels 11-3...put a halo over this one!
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