Falsafa

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

    The Atlas·Objects

    Shroud

    object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages

    a shroud for Laertes · enfolding shroud · great tambour frame · great web · the web

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    The Shroud1 mention

    Odyssey (Greek)

    whereon we could see her working on her great web all day long, but at night she would unpick the stitches again by torchlight.
    chapter 2

    in the texts

    OdysseyClassical · Greek

    The burial cloth Penelope wove and secretly unpicked at night as a ruse to delay choosing a new husband among the suitors.

    whereon we could see her working on her great web all day long, but at night she would unpick the stitches again by torchlight.
    chapter 2
    ‘Sweet hearts,’ said she, ‘Odysseus is indeed dead, still do not press me to marry again immediately, wait - for I would not have skill in weaving perish unrecorded - till I have completed a shroud for the hero Laertes, to be in readiness against the time when death shall take him.
    chapter 2

    AjaxClassical · Greek

    The covering Tecmessa places over Ajax's corpse to shield loved ones from the sight.

    I will cover him over entirely with this enfolding shroud, since no one—no one, that is, who loves him—could bear to see him spurt the darkened gore of his self-inflicted slaughter up his nostrils and out of the bloody gash.
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