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Often appears with: language, naming, and meaning · theological dinner · textual variants · mythic tradition · myth and the gods of the nations · justice as a virtue · honourable part of the body · helen and menelaus · education and the training of the young · anthony
Usually: curiosity (2) · commentary or gloss (1) · dialogue (1) · detachment (1) · humor (1)
Final notes clarify wordplay and mythic references about Helen, Menelaus, and related figures, including explanations of etymology and whether textual variants are spurious.
the peculiar bitterness with which he is treated, his conquest turning to ashes in his mouth, and his love a confused turmoil of hunger and hatred, contemptible and yet terrible. The exit of the scene would leave a modern audience quite in doubt as to what happened, unless the action were much clearer than the words. But all Athenians knew from the *Odyssey* that the pair were swiftly reconciled, and lived happily t…
In a final exchange, a different Anthony’s quick repartee is used in a dispute over the most honourable part of the body, ending with teasing “seating” logic and a caller urging a “theological dinner.”
Reason, but because he knew that the other Man would name some other Fellow, where was you drag'd up? *At Hogs Norton*? Then says *Anthony*, What, are you angry? If I had saluted you with my Mouth, you would have answer'd me again; but now I salute you with the most honourable Part of the Body, in your own Opinion, you call me saucy Fellow. And so *Anthony* regain'd the Reputation he had lost. We have every one told…