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Often appears with: crime and punishment · conspiracy and assassination · wagner as theorist · tristan and isolde · trial confession under accusation · theatre and performance · sabine women · romulus and violence · roman civic injustice · ring of the nibelung and bayreuth · revolution and the fall of states · rape and abduction narratives
Usually: indignation (3) · narrative (2) · reflection (2) · betrayal (2) · detachment (2) · list or catalogue (1) · exile and homecoming (1) · the fall of the great (1) · the stranger's arrival (1) · the test or trial (1)
“The people, overwhelmed by these oppressive measures, and most of all by exorbitant usury, and obliged to contribute both money and personal service to the constant wars, at length took arms, and seceded to Mount Aventine and Mount Sacer, and thus obtained for themselves tribunes and protective laws.” Augustine (Aurelius Augustine), Saint of Hippo, The City of God, Volume I · vivid
“Now at last the genius of dithyrambic drama doffs its last disguise. He is isolated; the age seems empty to him; he ceases to hope; and his all-embracing glance descend once more into the deep, and finds the bottom, there he sees suffering in the nature of things.” Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thoughts out of Season, Part I · vivid
Mindarus replaces Astyochus as admiral and Astyochus sails home, while Gaulites reports on Miletus and Hermocrates accuses Tissaphernes of bribery and double-dealing in alliance politics.
for this and for other things of the kind, and upon his afterwards dying of sickness, would not allow him to be buried where the Lacedaemonians with the army desired. The discontent of the army with Astyochus and Tissaphernes had reached this pitch, when Mindarus arrived from Lacedaemon to succeed Astyochus as admiral, and assumed the command. Astyochus now set sail for home; and Tissaphernes sent with him one of hi…
In A.D. 1055 the chronicle reiterates Elgar’s outlawry, his flight to Ireland and Wales, the plundering and burning of the Hereford minster built by Bishop Athelstan, and notes the death of Tremerig, Welsh bishop, soon after.
on the ninth before the calends of November. In the same year died Tremerig, the Welsh bishop, soon after the plundering; who was Bishop Athelstan's substitute, after he became infirm. ((A.D. 1055. In this year died Siward the earl at York, and he lies at Galmanho, in the minster which himself caused to be built, and consecrated in God's and Olave's name. And Tosty succeeded to the earldom which he had held. And …
Augustine lists Roman early injustices to refute claims that Romans were equitable by nature, including the rape of the Sabine women, treatment of Collatinus, and persecution of Camillus.
subject the people, and the people resented their encroachments, and the advocates of either party were actuated rather by the love of victory than by any equitable or virtuous consideration. 18. _What the history of Sallust reveals regarding the life of the Romans, either when straitened by anxiety or relaxed in security._ I will therefore pause, and adduce the testimony of Sallust himself, whose words in pr…
Wagner’s operas Tannhäuser and Lohengrin ask sufferers where their equals are, but the public misunderstands him, gossiping instead; he tries writing explanations, is condemned as a “theorist,” and considers revolution and exile.
will reveal your misery to me." These were his questions in Tannhauser and Lohengrin, in these operas he looked about him for his equals --the anchorite yearned for the number. But what were his feelings withal? Nobody answered him. Nobody had understood his question. Not that everybody remained silent: on the contrary, answers were given to thousands of questions which he had never put; people gossipped about the n…
After Wagner becomes a political exile, Nietzsche says his art turns inward and becomes the highest mastery: he stops aiming for public effects, turns to metaphysical music, and creates Tristan and Isolde and later the Ring and Bayreuth.
not. But, in any case, would not complete annihilation be better than the wretched existing state of affairs? Not very long afterwards, he was a political exile in dire distress. And then only, with this terrible change in his environment and in his soul, there begins that period of the great man's life over which as a golden reflection there is stretched the splendour of highest mastery. Now at last the genius of d…