Charlotte Higgins

Chris Ofili

A New Retelling, with Drawings by Chris Ofili

Greek Myths

Riley

"You are the poet's impetus, the astronomer's flash of certainty, the dancer when her body becomes the faithful servant of her mind. You are the moment a historian assembles the shards of the past and suddenly perceives a pattern. You come only to those who toil for you painfully; and even then, your visits are erratic."

"Pandora did not unleash all the horror and grief into the world, as one poet - a man - has falsely claimed. With the arrival of women, the men ceased to be like children, innocent, and ignorant. They began to know love and joy, and the pain of loss, the ache of desire (often for each other): they became, in fact, fully human, with all the good and bad that entails." 

I love this observation by Prometheus about humans because I think it is still true today

"They can't seem to find the pattern in anything."

I love the claim that the Fates are more powerful than Zeus (because they are)

"They raise up the humble and dash down the mighty. They bring power and joy; they bring calamity, disease and terror. They know what has been, what is now, and what will be. They know when our world will end, when sea and land and sky will be be consumed by sulphureous fire from pole to pole. Compared to these sisters even the gods, even Zeus himself, are as powerless as babies. Nothing happens that is not spun by them." 

Greek Myths quotes

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