Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Harvest Moon<\/p>\n
More time today on Ovid.\u00a0 Working on Book III:570-574.\u00a0 This chunk, starting at 509 and running through 579, introduces the story of Pentheus, a cautionary tale about religious zealots.\u00a0 Pentheus criticizes the seer Tiresias as an alarmist and disses the God Bacchus and his Bacchante as driven by potent drink, irrational, anti-military and decidedly non-Roman.\u00a0 Later in the story Pentheus will be torn apart by his mother and her fellow maenads in a fit of religious frenzy.<\/p>\n
This story warn us to understand religious zealotry as a serious political force and one often prone to violence.<\/p>\n
I can feel my Latin muscles growing, a slow process, fed by numerous encounters with various words, sentence constructions, parts of speech.<\/p>\n
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Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Harvest Moon More time today on Ovid.\u00a0 Working on Book III:570-574.\u00a0 This chunk, starting at 509 and running through 579, introduces the story of Pentheus, a cautionary tale about religious zealots.\u00a0 Pentheus criticizes the seer Tiresias as an alarmist and disses the God Bacchus and his Bacchante as driven by potent drink, irrational, … Continue reading Zealots<\/span>