Sunday, March 20, 2005
Pride
Homer, Odyssey 11.538-540 (tr. Richmond Lattimore):
It's not just fame that gives rise to that emotion. I'm lucky enough to feel that way about my children. I hope my father occasionally has the same feeling about me, and walks with an extra spring in his step across the meadows of asphodel.
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So I spoke, and the soul of the swift-footed scion of AiakosThe scion of Aiakos is Achilles, and Achilles' son is Neoptolemus. Odysseus, during his visit to the underworld, has been talking with the shade of Achilles.
stalked away in long strides across the meadows of asphodel,
happy for what I had said of his son, and how he was famous.
It's not just fame that gives rise to that emotion. I'm lucky enough to feel that way about my children. I hope my father occasionally has the same feeling about me, and walks with an extra spring in his step across the meadows of asphodel.
