* Yolanda had found Greek History and the Nine Muses in a book and wanted to be part…..
* Calliope is the superior Muse. She inspired Homer as he wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey. She accompanied kings and princes to help them impose justice and serenity. Calliope is the protector of poetic works, the rhetoric arts, music, and writing. Calliope is usually depicted with laurels in one hand and two Homeric poems in the other.
The other part of Homer’s prose is: "Apart from Demeter, lady of the golden sword and glorious fruits, she was playing with the deep-bosomed daughters of Oceanus and gathering flowers over a soft meadow, roses and crocuses and beautiful violets, irises also and hyacinths and the narcissus, which Earth made to grow at the will of Zeus and to please the Host of Many, to be a snare for the bloom-like girl -- a marvellous, radiant flower. It was a thing of awe whether for deathless gods or mortal men to see: from its root grew a hundred blooms and is smelled most sweetly, so that all wide heaven above and the whole earth and the sea's salt swell laughed for joy. And the girl was amazed and reached out with both hands to take the lovely toy; but the wide-pathed earth yawned there in the plain of Nysa, and the lord, Host of Many, with his immortal horses sprang out upon her -- the Son of Cronos, He who has many names."
Three Good Things;
1. I do not need to say any more!
2. Yolanda was transfixed!
3. Learning.
All sounds very different from Yolanda’s normal life with Mr Man & the exciting life of a motor cycle mans woman!
I think Yolanda will lap all that land of flowers & warm sun lapped meadows but ready to hop on the back of the bike in her leathers very soon!
The Greeks certainly adored the arts- and I've studied a lot of it but not so much the literature. I always found the massive amount of gods and goddesses hard to keep track of! Good for Yolanda- she blends right in!
July 21st, 2019
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I think Yolanda will lap all that land of flowers & warm sun lapped meadows but ready to hop on the back of the bike in her leathers very soon!