Euripedes has quite an extensive catalog on the so-called mystery cults. In the wiki, it does state the tragedian had some involvement in a mystery cult:
He served for a short time as both dancer and torch-bearer at the
rites of Apollo Zosterius
From this we may glean he was at least a "mytsai"...
When Odysseus meets the Cyclops, the text never explicitly states that he has only a single eye. However, the unfolding action in which Odysseus and his crew blind the Cyclops by pushing a stake into one eye implies that there is only one eye to blind.
I was therefore surprised to find, in my tra...
@Bookworm um... I'd assume it's lids and brows in plural because there's an upper and lower lid on the eye, the upper closing from top down and the lower from bottom up, and eyelashes on both
@Bookworm I see this has been deleted but it's a good question -- the original words in Od. 9.389 are βλέφαρ᾽ (eyelids/eyelashes) and ὀφρύας (eyebrows), but Homer always uses the former, and nearly always the latter, in the plural, suggesting that for him they were obligatory plurals, like "scissors" or "trousers" in English
So I was searching for a German poem that deals with the subject of Entropy that I could use for a music composition.
I was not able to find enough poems on goolge so I tried with chat-gpt. The bot outputed this poem entitled Entropie, saying that it was written by German poet Barbara Köhler (19...
@bobble I'm of the opinion that we should disallow questions asking for the source of poems generated by large language models. These models are designed to generate arbitrary amounts of text that statistically resemble their training data. The "temperature" of the model is usually tuned to prevent it simply quoting from the training data, so there is every reason to think that the output of the models (including the confident citations) is novel.
Perhaps you should ask a meta question so that we have something to refer to as policy. Many other Stack Exchange sites have banned questions and answers based on the output of language models (for example, Stack Overflow) for similar reasons
@verbose The surprise over the coronation oath demonstrates that nobody attends Church of England services any more. The coronation is a communion service, and the standard order of service has always included a promise to "faithfully serve, honour and humbly obey" the monarch
@CowperKettle As in the Fanny Crosby hymn "To God Be the Glory":
> But purer, and higher, and greater will be Our wonder, our transport, when Jesus we see.
@GarethRees I had parsed it as "To look her in the face (subject) may receipt (verb) us (indirect object) a transport or a disgrace (direct object)"--is that different from what you're saying, or no?
@DLosc In my interpretation "us" is the direct object of "receipt": I interpret these lines as "(if we) look her in the face (then) a Transport may receipt (i.e. receive) us (into a state of transport), or a Disgrace (may receive us) (into a state of disgrace)".
Here "Transport" is a figure of personification, that is, it is imagined as a person who could receive us
@GarethRees I guess it's a reminder that the UK and those commonwealth realms that accept the monarch as the head of state are constitutional theocracies. H'm too bad my father-in-law is dead. He was an Episcopal priest who moved to Canada, and he said he refused to intone the part about obeying the monarch when he was sworn in as a Canadian citizen, on the grounds that he was maintaining his US citizenship too, and to swear an oath to Elizabeth II would violate his American spirit.
But he conducted services in the Anglican church after his move ... so now I'm curious how he handled that bit about the monarch. I should ask my mother-in-law. She has been Canadian her entire life, and I'm sure she can both share what FIL was thinking, and has Thoughts™ of her own on the subject.
No pun intended on "subject"
I take that back, it's a great pun and I shall embrace it.
@verbose Another interesting case is the Sinn Fein MPs, who get voted in to represent Northern Ireland constituencies in the UK parliament, but refuse to take their seats in the latter because doing so would require taking an oath of loyalty to the monarch and they're devout republicans ("nationalists" in the NI parlance, i.e. basically Catholics).
Although there's only a few of them, their refusal to take their seats actually became important in the tightly balanced 2017-19 parliament (which someone should turn into a TV series, it was great entertainment while it lasted).
Ireland has a different relation with Cromwell from Great Britain.
He's hated there for what he did in Ireland specifically, whereas English/Scottish/Welsh people's view of him is probably more correlated with their view of monarchy.
Many years ago in a US middle school, in an honors literature class we read a short story in English that has stuck with me since and I haven't been able to find it.
Roughly:
someone creates a computer (called an automaton or something?
"as is tradition" the creator and someone he is showing it ...
Euripedes has quite an extensive catalog on the so-called mystery cults. In the wiki, it does state the tragedian had some involvement in a mystery cult:
He served for a short time as both dancer and torch-bearer at the
rites of Apollo Zosterius
From this we may glean he was at least a "mytsai"...
