{"id":179,"date":"2010-10-04T16:07:23","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T20:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=179"},"modified":"2013-08-28T18:31:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T22:31:22","slug":"analects-of-the-core-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2010\/10\/04\/analects-of-the-core-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Sophocles on pondering the enemy’s lot"},"content":{"rendered":"

As autumn descends upon us, we consider an analect for today which reflects our longing for the diminishing sun\u2014and how we should consider our lives in the grand scheme, not necessarily just on our proximity to warmth:<\/p>\n

I know no one. But nevertheless I pity the poor wretch even though he is my enemy, because he has been yoked harshly to the harness of a dreadful delusion. Yes, I ponder that man\u2019s lot no less than my own. For I see that we are nothing more than ghosts — all we that live — or vacuous insubstantial shadows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2013 Ajax, in Sophocles\u2019 Ajax<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\"Andokides<\/p>\n

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About this image: “Andokides Painter, Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game (Attic bilingual amphora), from Orvieto, Italy, ca. 525-520 BCE. Black-figure side (left<\/em>) and red-figure side (right<\/em>). Approx. 1′ 9″ high. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.” As appears in Gardner’s art through the ages: a western perspective<\/em><\/a>, by Helen Gardner, Fred S. Kleiner<\/a>, and Christin J. Mamiya (2006), page 108. A few comments from our art history major student office assistant, Sarah Cole:<\/p>\n

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Amphorae were commonly used as funerary markers and storage vessels in Ancient Greece.\u00a0 This amphora shows great craftsmanship and skill.\u00a0 Before the Black Figure and Red\u00a0 Figure styles were created, the artist would paint the image onto the vessel with slip.\u00a0\u00a0 With the new techniques, the image could be scratched onto the vessel, which allowed more\u00a0 detail.\u00a0 This image shows two great warriors at a moment before battle.\u00a0 Often, artists\u00a0 created scenes of great battles or mythology for the main image.\u00a0 The figures hold their\u00a0 spears but the shields stand to the side.\u00a0 On the Black figure vase, the shield to the\u00a0 right is a Dipylon shield<\/a>, which was used by soldiers in the Bronze Age.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As autumn descends upon us, we consider an analect for today which reflects our longing for the diminishing sun\u2014and how we should consider our lives in the grand scheme, not necessarily just on our proximity to warmth: I know no one. But nevertheless I pity the poor wretch even though he is my enemy, because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691,244],"tags":[48735],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}