“The race of gods and the race of men are separate; but we both breathe thanks to one mother.”
῝Εν ἀνδρῶν, ἓν θεῶν γένος· ἐκ μιᾶς δὲ πνέομεν
ματρὸς ἀμφότεροι·
Tag: Gods and Men
Aristotle, Rhetorica 1398b
“As Sappho says, death is a great evil and the gods have judged it so: for they do not die”
ἢ ὥσπερ Σαπφώ, ὅτι τὸ ἀποθνῄσκειν κακόν· οἱ θεοὶ
γὰρ οὕτω κεκρίκασιν· ἀπέθνησκον γὰρ ἄν.
Aristotle was a great reader of poetry