Falsafa

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

    The Atlas·Objects

    Shroud

    object · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages

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

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    The Shroud1 mention

    Odyssey (Greek)

    ‘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.
    book 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.

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

    al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāqMedieval · Arabic

    The burial cloth, used to void the value of fine dress.

    Let no man brought low be pleased with the fineness of his attire — and does the excellence of a shroud gratify one buried?
    the publisher's introduction · printed page 12

    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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