Ilium
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Oct 21, 2026
Bob GonzalezNARRATOR
Thus framed for ill, he loosed our triple hold, Advice unsafe, precipitous, and bold.
Bob GonzalezNARRATOR
From hence those tears, that Ilium of our woe, Who helps a powerful friend forearms a foe.
Bob GonzalezNARRATOR
What wonder if the waves prevail so far, When he cut down the banks that made the bar? Seas follow but their nature to invade, But he by art our native strength betrayed.
Bob GonzalezNARRATOR
So Samson to his foe his force confessed, And to be shorn, lay slumbering on her breast.
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Algy PugNARRATOR
No more than he did stop tyrannic power, Or in that crisis did contribute more To his just rights our monarch to restore, And still by wise advice and loyal arts Would have secured him in his subjects' hearts.
Algy PugNARRATOR
You own the mischiefs sprung from that intrigue Which fatally dissolved the triple league.
Algy PugNARRATOR
Each of your idle mock triumvirate knows Our patriot strongly did that breach oppose, Nor did this lord to Dover journey go From thence our tears the Ilium of our woe.
Algy PugNARRATOR
Had he that interest followed, how could he By those that served it then discarded be? The French and papists well his merits know.
Bob FosterNARRATOR
In the epic, owing to its scale, every part is treated at proper length, With a drama, however, on the same story the result is very disappointing.
Bob FosterNARRATOR
This is shown by the fact that all who have dramatized the fall of Ilium in its entirety, and not part by part like Euripides, or the whole of the Niobe story, instead of a portion like Aeschylus, either fail utterly or have but ill success on the stage.
Bob FosterNARRATOR
For that, and that alone, was enough to ruin even a play by Agathon.
Bob FosterNARRATOR
Yet in their peripetes, as also in their simple plots, the poets, I mean, show wonderful skill in aiming at the kind of effect they desire.
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Bob FosterNARRATOR
as it is he has singled out one section of the whole many of the other incidents however he brings in as episodes using the catalogue of the ships for instance and other episodes to relieve the uniformity of his narrative As for the other epic poets, they treat of one man, or one period, or else of an action which, although one, has a multiplicity of parts in it.
Bob FosterNARRATOR
This last is what the authors of the Cypria and Little Iliad have done, and the result is that whereas the Iliad, or Odyssey, supplies materials for only one, or at most two tragedies, The Cypria does that for several, and the little Iliad for more than eight.
Bob FosterNARRATOR
For an adjudgment of arms, a Philoctetes, a Neoptolemus, a Eurypialus, a Ulysses as beggar, a Laconian woman, a fall of Ilium, and a departure of the fleet, as also a Sinan and women of Troy.
Bob FosterNARRATOR
Chapter 24.2 Besides this, epic poetry must divide into the same species as tragedy.
speaker_3NARRATOR
The time during which birds show themselves differs very considerably.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Some, like the pigeon, remain with us all the year round some for six months such as the swallow and some again for three months only as the thrush the turtle-dove and those which take their departure the moment they have reared their young like the whitwall and the hoopoe There are some authors who say that every year certain birds fly from Ethiopia to Ilium, and have a combat at the tomb of Memnon there, from which circumstance they have received from them the name of Memnonites, or birds of Memnon.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Cramutius states it also as a fact, ascertained by himself, that they do the same every fifth year in Ethiopia, around the palace of Memnon.
speaker_3NARRATOR
in a similar manner the birds called meleagrides fight in boeotia they are a species of african poultry having a hump on the back covered with a mottled plumage these are the latest among the foreign birds that have been received at our tables on account of their disagreeable smell the tomb however of meleager has rendered them famous Those birds are called Seleucides, which are sent by Jupiter at the prayers offered up to him by the inhabitants of Mount Cassius, when the locusts are ravaging their crops of corn.
speaker_1NARRATOR
His central sanctities, his true possessions, should be Christian and simple.
speaker_1NARRATOR
And just as a child would cherish most a wooden horse or a sword that is a mere cross of wood, so man the great child must cherish most the old plain things of poetry and piety, that horse of wood that was the epic of Ilium, or that cross of wood that redeemed and conquered the world.
speaker_1NARRATOR
In one of Stevenson's letters there is a characteristically humorous remark about the appalling impression produced on him in childhood by the beasts with many eyes in the book of Revelation.
speaker_1NARRATOR
If that was heaven, what in the name of Davy Jones was hell like? Now in sober truth there's a magnificent idea in these monsters of the apocalypse.
B.J. HarrisonNARRATOR
I who have floated down the whole stream of history.
B.J. HarrisonNARRATOR
I was old when Ilium fell.
B.J. HarrisonNARRATOR
I was very old when Herodotus came to Memphis.
B.J. HarrisonNARRATOR
I was bowed down with years when the new gospel came upon earth.
David WalesNARRATOR
Grave that our race shall kneel an eye, for I, Gallipoli, goodbye.
David WalesNARRATOR
Dying to rank as men with those who manned the wall while Ilium burned, this is the crown your story knows, the need their rare dear madness earned.
David WalesNARRATOR
Troy's heroes cry to ours and thee, Gallipoli, Gallipoli.
David WalesNARRATOR
They watched through fierce weeks many a one while from his tent of rose-hued lawn the unclenched fingers of the sun unloosed the westering birds of dawn.
Chuck StranskyPANELIST
Then...
Chuck StranskyPANELIST
Senseless Ilium, seeming to feel his blow with flaming top, stoops to his base, and with a hideous crash takes prisoner Pyrrhus' ear.
Chuck StranskyPANELIST
For lo, his sword, which he was declining on the milky head of Reverend Priam, seemed in the air to stick.
Chuck StranskyPANELIST
So as a painted tyrant, Pyrrhus stood, and like a neutral to his will and matter, did nothing.
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Annie OcchiogrossoMODERATOR
What the hell do we go on? You know? So the idea of nature itself participating.
Annie OcchiogrossoMODERATOR
I love the description of Troy.
Annie OcchiogrossoMODERATOR
Senseless Ilium.
Annie OcchiogrossoMODERATOR
Ilium that has no feeling.