http://helivoy.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] helivoy.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] sovay 2010-10-28 12:08 pm (UTC)

The fear of classical Greeks for the disorder of strong emotions is nakedly visible in their works, starting with Sapfó. Enthousiasmós also had the connotation of godly possession and of course manía and ménos (mínis in its Homeric equivalent, which opens the Iliad) are siblings.

Francesca: keetheemós (th as in "this", soft dhelta!)

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