Scripta+2017+nov+dec+hero

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ooo...let's do some phrases about the virtues of work...which ties in nicely with our hero unit, yes?

Labor omnes vicit: Work conquers all.

faber est quisque fortunae suae: every man is architect of his own fortune

collaborate: to work together fabricate: to make media type="file" key="11 - Work Work.mp3" width="240" height="20"

And the first hero is....

Perseus!!!! Why? Because he is wildly popular to this day and because I want to.



Perseus (Benvenuto Cellini)





King Acrisius of Argos was warned by an oracle that he would be killed in time by a son born to his daughter Danae. So he promptly locked Danae up in a tower and threw away the key. But the god Zeus got in, disguised as a shower of gold, with the result that Perseus was born. So Acrisius straightaway stuck daughter and infant into a brazen chest and pushed it out to sea. Perhaps he expected it to sink like a stone, but instead it floated quite nicely, fetching up on a beach on the island of Seriphos.

What a filius canis! perseus and the dearly departed dr campbell's hero's journey

2. dum spiro spero: while I breath I hope. It ain't over until it's over. Fortuna fortes adiuvat: Fortune favors the brave/strong.

conspire: to breathe together; make secret plans jointly to commit an unlawful or harmful act

fortification: a defensive wall or other reinforcement built to strengthen a place against attack. something to make something else stronger.

Perseus and his mother are saved by a fisherman whose brother happens to be the king. he fisherman raises Perseus into manhood.for the moment, anyway. Danae marries the local king, a man by the name of Polydectes. This makes him Perseus' stepfather. He is also a jealous little weasel of a man. Perseus believed Polydectes was less than honourable, and protected his mother from him; then Polydectes plotted to send Perseus away in disgrace. He held a large banquet where each guest was expected to bring a gift.Polydectes requested that the guests bring horses, under the pretense that he was collecting contributions for the hand of Hippodamia, "tamer of horses". Perseus had no horse to give, so he asked Polydectes to name the gift; he would not refuse it. Polydectes held Perseus to his rash promise and demanded the head of the only mortal Gorgon, Medusa, whose eyes turned people to stone. A sad and lonely Medusa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseus

3. Qui audet adipiscitur: He ( She) who dares wins

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via (Seneca the Younger):There is no easy trip from the earth to the stars.

audacious: full of daring; bold astronaut: a sailor of the stars ( nauta=sailor)

Nice going, Perseus. You got your feelings all hurt, opened your mouth and swore all in a huff to do something really dangerous and probably lethal. Our friend Perseus is going to need some serious assistance. Lucky for him, he has Athena and Hermes both of whom give him gifts to help him on his quest. You should want a bad chick like this. #arealboss musical accompaniment

http://www.goddess-athena.org/Encyclopedia/Athena/Perseus.htm

and Hermes So what assistance did these two offer our friend, Perseus? All kinds of super cool and useful stiff like: Athena: a shield that was gleaming bronze(!?) to reflect the image of Medusa lest he look at her and be turned to stone a cape of invisibility which is always handy to have Hermes: winged sandals the sickle that Uranus used to castrate Cronus and that Zeus used against Typhon...it's a tried and true weapon, a big gun, if they had had guns. Some accounts that I have read say he got a really fancy sword, but in any case, he's armed.

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/bdodge/scaffold/gg/perseus.html

[|the hero's journey]

9/17 virtutis fortuna comes: Courage is the companion of luck.

Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona - Brave men lived before Agamemnon. (heroism exists even if it's not recorded)

virtuous: morally upright; full of virtue ( the courage to do what is right)

fortuitous: full of luck; lucky ; happening by chance

Athena also gives Perseus some advice. She tells him he must find the Graiae, three old witchy sisters who were old age personified, in fact, they were born old. They are sisters of the Gorgons. They know where the Gorgon's lair is. The three of them only have one eye and one tooth.

Off he goes...[|the graiae]. They tell him where Medusa lives and what he needs to do to win.

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Now it is time for the big battle .Perseus goes to face down death, the battle with Medusa [|Medusa fight]

This fight is the symbolic conquest of death.

percy jackson.

9/21 ignis aurum probat: fire tests gold; one's character is refined and revealed in difficult circumstances

tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito Yield not to misfortunes, but advance all the more boldly against them

probative: having the quality or function of proving or demonstrating something

concede: to yield; admit He finally conceded that she was right. dictionary.com

Perseus leaves the Gorgons' lair with Medusa's head in a bag. The first unusual thing that happens is that Pegasus, the winged horse, flies out of the severed head of Medusa. Pegasus is the offspring of Medusa and Poseidon. Pegasus is a truly enduring figure.



Another thing that happens is that Atlas, the Titan who holds the Earth on his back, is turned to stone, thus creating the Atlas mountains in Africa. Why? Because of a prophecy that a son of Zeus would one day steal the golden apples of the Hesperides, Atlas refused to offer Perseus hospitality when he came to visit. Insulted, Perseus showed him the severed head of Medusa, which had the power to turn all who looked at it into stone. Atlas turned into stone. The stone became the Atlas Mountains in what is now the country of Morocco.





Atlas Mtns. Morrocco

 [|http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Ar-Be/Atlas.html#ixzz3DIJXNvwK]

9/23

possunt quia posse videntur They can because they seem to be able to (they can do it because they think they can do it - the power of positive thinking) sedit qui timuit ne non succederet. He who feared he would not succeed sat still.

sedate: calm, quiet

timid: fearful, shy, nervous

Aethiopia (Greek Αἰθιοπία) first appears as a geographical term in classical sources, in reference to the Upper Nile region, as well as all the regions south of the Sahara desert.

The inhabited world according to Herodotus. Libya (Africa) is imagined as extending no further south than the Horn of Africa, terminating in uninhabitable desert. Possibly what the world according to Herodotus looked like (5th century BC). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aethiopia#mediaviewer/File:Herodotus_world_map-en.svg

T imes are rough in the kingdom Of Aethiopeia. The queen, Cassiopeia, has insulted the gods, and everyone is paying for it. Hoe did she insult them? The boast of Cassiopeia was that both she and her daughter Andromeda were more beautiful than all the Nereids, the nymph-daughters of the sea god Nereus. This brought the wrath of Poseidon, ruling god of the sea, upon the kingdom of Ethiopia. media type="file" key="13 - Under the Sea (with Howard Ashman).mp3" width="240" height="20"

THE NEREIDES (or Nereids) were fifty Nymphs or goddesses of the sea. They were the patrons of sailors and fishermen, who came to the aid of men in distress, and goddesses who had in their care the sea's rich bounty. Individually they also represented various facets of the sea, from salty brine, to foam, sand, rocky shores, waves and currents, in addition to the various skills possessed by seamen. The Nereides dwelt with their elderly father Nereus in a silvery cavern at the bottom of the Aegean Sea. The Nereid Thetis was their unofficial leader, and Amphitrite was the queen of the sea. Together with the Tritones they formed the retinue of Poseidon.

http://www.theoi.com/Pontios/Nereides.html

[|check this out...I want to go here!]   9/17 aut viam inveniam aut faciam :I'll either find a way or make one ( This is one of my and possibly my favorite quote ever! It is attributed to Hannibal, the great African general)

perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim :Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you

deviate: to go off the path (of what is normal) inventory ; that which is found (e.g, on the shelves at a store, or in a supply closet)

So, after saying that she and her daughter, Andromeda, were better looking than all the Nereidsmedia type="file" key="dogs-01.wav" width="300" height="50", the Nereids get even. To punish the queen for her arrogance, Poseidon, brother to Zeus and god of the sea, sent a sea monster named Cetus( not Kraken!!!! a Cetus is a serpentine fish monster whale God awful thing) to ravage the coast of Aethiopia including the kingdom of the vain queen. The desperate king consulted the Oracle of Apollo, who announced that no respite would be found until the king sacrificed his daughter, Andromeda, to the monster. Stripped naked, she was chained to a rock on the coast. And was awaiting her fate when Perseus comes and saves the day. He shows the monster the head of Medusa and ...you guessed it, the monster is turned to stone. What about the Krakken? The Kraken is a mythological sea monster, just in another culture's myth...the Norse myths...so, right idea, wrong monster)

[|andromeda and the monster]

9/29 de fumo in flammam: from the smoke into the fire out of the frying pan into the fire

bonitas non est pessimis esse meliorem: It is not goodness to be better than the worst.

fumigate:to expose to smoke or fumes, as in disinfecting or exterminating roaches, ants, etc. ameliorate: to make better; to improve

http://dictionary.reference.com

Perseus and Andromeda, sitting in tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G...

When someone saves you from a hideous sea monster, I would imagine you are pretty grateful, and in this case, smitten like a kitten. Unfortunately, she was already engaged to a man by the name of Phineus not him. him.

At the wedding, there was a confrontation, a broohaha, and Perseus won. The head of Medusa is a hard weapon to beat. And on a side note...is there anything tackier than a fight at a wedding? No, there is not. Maybe tube tops and hot pants, or speedos on European men, or going to a party empty handed, but fighting at a wedding is pretty high on the tacky list ( see you tube if you don't believe me).

Andromeda and Perseus have a son, Perses, from whom, according to myth, the Persians were descended. He was the father of the Perseids, aka Achmaemenids, after whom the Achmaemenid Empire ( remember the Darius/ Alexander the Great business...Darius was an Achmaemenid ruler) was named. here is a map of Persia at it's height and here is Alexander's empire...fyi



10'1 Verba movent, exempla trahunt - Words move people, examples draw/compel them

magnum opus: a great work; a life's crowning achievement...like the Sistine Chapel for Michelangelo, which I always use as this example, because I love it...in fact, let's take a look.... [|Sistine Chapel]

exemplary: worthy of being an example

votive: for the purpose of worship or prayer ( vota,ae(f): prayer)

First, he has to go rescue his mother from the unwanted advances of Polydectes. He does this by media type="file" key="drumroll.wav" width="300" height="50", you guessed it, showing Polydectes the head of Medusa. Hindsight being 20/20, perhaps this was not the best choice on Polydectes' part...sending Perseus to get the head and all. It does make for a tidy little end to that narrative...send someone to get the head, be killed by the head.

He then gives the head as a votive gift to Athena who put it on Zeus' shield which she carries. The shield is called the Gorgoneion or the Aegis. It was believed to have special protective qualities. The modern concept of doing something "under someone's // aegis // " means doing something under the protection of a powerful, knowledgeable, or benevolent source

In fact, we see Medusa heads used for this purpose in lots of contexts.Somewhere in France. Alexander on a Roman mosaic in Spain

The modern concept of doing something "under someone's aegis" means doing something under the protection of a powerful, knowledgeable, or benevolent source.

10/5 vincit qui patitur: He who endures wins.

iuventuti nil arduum: to the young ( juvenile) nothing is difficult

patience: the ability to endure

arduous: difficult

At the very beginning of this story, Perseus was fated to kill his grandfather, Acrisius ( hence, the tower and the sunbeam and the box containing mother and child thrown into the sea). As you know, you can't cheat fate. Perseus went to Larissa, where athletic games were being held.

He had just invented the quoit and was making a public display of them when Acrisius, who happened to be visiting, stepped into the trajectory of the quoit and was killed: thus the oracle was fulfilled. This is an unusual variant on the story of such a prophecy, as Acrisius' actions did not, in this variant, cause his death. The final notable thing I want y'all to know about Perseus is his war with Dionysus. As you already know, the cult of Dionysus was considered suspect and a little dangerous by some people in the ancient world what with the drinking and the ecstatic dancing and the frenzy etc, and Perseus was among those who viewed it with suspicion. Thus, when Dionysus came knocking on the door of Perseus' kingdom, Perseus did not want to let him and and a big fight ensued. "Dionysos arrived in Argos during his earthly wanderings with troops of women from the Aegean Islands. Perseus (or his grandfather Akrisios) blocked his entry to the city and engaged the god in battle, slaying Ariadne and routing his troops. The two were eventually reconciled, and the cult of the god firmly established."

After they died,Perseus and Andromeda were made into constellations.