Conversations at the Areopagus
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(The Apostle Paul is waiting at Athens, and some of the Epicureans and Stoics engaged him in conversation.)
Agon, Aidos, Apate, Bia, Corus and Dysnomia (talking amongst themselves) say “What w...
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Categories:
hybris, atheist, bible, jesus, philosophy,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Nature's Wrath
...Nature's wrath-- incarnated as hurricanes--demonstrates Lord's indignation for the hybris of Man!*
© Demetrios Trifiatis
07 September 2017
* Hurricane, Irma has been decla...
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Categories:
hybris, god, men, natural disasters,
Form: Monoku
Hybris
...And I've become the
victim of my own hybris.
I was ...careless and
proud when I thought you
are harmless to me. Now I
am trying to
bribe Fate itself to
give me back my wasted years;
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Categories:
hybris, absence, blue, fate, heartbroken,
Form: Choka
Thus Spoke Hybris
...Aesop, Fables 533 (from Babrius 70) (trans. Gibbs) (Greek fable C6th B.C.) :
"The gods were getting married. One after another, they all got hitched, until finally it
was time for Polemos (War) to ...
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Categories:
hybris, war
Form: Sonnet