{"id":70,"date":"2010-09-13T10:41:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T14:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=70"},"modified":"2013-08-28T17:46:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T21:46:25","slug":"analects-of-the-core-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2010\/09\/13\/analects-of-the-core-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Virgil on the urge to action"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Dine hunc ardorem mentibus addunt, Euryale, an sua cuique deus fit dira cupido?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>This urge to action, do the gods instill it, or is each man\u2019s desire a god to him?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Nisus,<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Aeneid-Virgil\/dp\/0679729526\">The Aeneid<\/a><\/em>, Book IX, 184 f., trans. Robert Fitzgerald (Vintage, 1990). A discussion of the implications of this&#8217; question of the &#8220;urge to action&#8221; is taking place in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=46453444979&amp;v=app_2373072738&amp;ref=ts\">EnCore message board on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<dl style=\"width: 500px;\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" id=\"attachment_71\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"684\" width=\"490\" alt=\"This urge to action, do the gods instill?\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/09\/CoreShirt2010back.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71 \" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/09\/CoreShirt2010back.jpg 612w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/09\/CoreShirt2010back-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/>This image and quote appeared on the back of the Spring 2010 Core tee-shirt<\/p>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dine hunc ardorem mentibus addunt, Euryale, an sua cuique deus fit dira cupido? This urge to action, do the gods instill it, or is each man\u2019s desire a god to him? &#8212; Nisus, The Aeneid, Book IX, 184 f., trans. Robert Fitzgerald (Vintage, 1990). A discussion of the implications of this&#8217; question of the &#8220;urge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"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=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2908,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/2908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}