Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Figures

    Orion

    mythological figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages

    in the texts

    OdysseyClassical · Greek

    Mythological hunter loved by Dawn and killed by Artemis, also named as the constellation Odysseus uses for navigation.

    So when rosy-fingered Dawn made love to Orion, you precious gods were all of you furious till Artemis went and killed him in Ortygia.
    book 5
    He never closed his eyes, but kept them fixed on the Pleiads, on late-setting Boötes, and on the Bear - which men also call the Wain, and which turns round and round where it is, facing Orion, and alone never dipping into the stream of Okeanos - for Calypso had told him to keep this to his left.
    book 5
    "After him I saw huge Orion in a meadow full of asphodel driving the ghosts of the wild beasts that he had killed upon the mountains, and he had a great bronze club in his hand, unbreakable for ever and ever.
    book 11

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Mythological giant hunter, used as the benchmark of surpassing stature and beauty.

    and the Boeotians Otus and Ephialtes, whom Homer says were the greatest and fairest born after Orion, and that man himself.
    oration 29

    CyclopsClassical · Greek

    Constellation figure named by the Chorus in a comic hyperbole about being forced to look skyward

    I behold both the stars and Orion.
    cyclops