September 20th

"For the Twelve Olympians the war was a greater and more terrible struggle than their fight with the Giants."  -Page 131

This is all in the words of Isocrates and it is referancing the impact that the Trojan war had not only on earth but with the gods as well. I found it interesting because it is opposite of how you would expect the gods to react. You would think that they would look elsewhere and find their own mighty, grand adventure to do. But the fact is, they stop and hesitate and look down on this painful,endless war between men and it affects them. Helen affects them. It affects them so much that they burst out with a civil war of their own.They fought among themselves over Helen. The whole scene actually became quite dangerous; Helen became quite dangerous. For it ran for the gods the risk of becoming to like men. The gods had to be pretty involved for them to say it was greater then the war with the giants. I found the way in which they reacted very interesting.

Today in class we once again brushed over etiology and this time I added to my notes it is simply: to be. We also talked about how the study of being was ontological. We talked once again about the creation of music and the Lyre. The most important thing we talked about was the three parts seperation, initiation, and transformation. The beginning the middle and the end. Pain always occurs in the initiation stage. Another way to look at it is paradise, paradise lost, and paradise regained.