After breakfast you drove up Oak Canyon to I-17 then connected
to I-40 West to the Grand Canyon exit. You arrived about 1400 hours. Carol and
Alta went shopping at the nearby Fred Harvey Trading Company while you and
Craig shored up your adjoining rooms 7150 and 7151 at Yavapai Lodge on the
South Rim. You have no Internet service except at the Canyon Cafe at the
Yavapai Lodge [Xanterra South Rim].
1509
hours. Everything is in place. The room is quite pleasant though not nearly so
fancy as last night's stay. We have a large window looking at the pine forest
to the east. These buildings (we are number 7) are set up rather rustically
with about 8 or 9 rooms per building. It felt like we were driving into a brand
new work camp as we drove by the scattered other single floor motel--like
buildings in our area. We have a fan and very comfortable hot water radiated
heat but no air (not needed during our stay as it is in the 40's). We also have a refrigerator, flat
screen TV and a nice toilet and bath with electric heat if needed. Time to read
the USA Today before the girls return.
1911
hours. We took the bus to the Rim Lodges and stopped at the El Tovar where
Carol and Alta shopped for some shirts and books for the grandchildren. Craig
and I decided to have breakfast at the El Tovar tomorrow.
Snow Cloud below Grand Canyon Rim
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Tonight
one of the shopkeepers at El Tovar suggested The Arizona Room down near Bright
Angel Lodge. The meals were quite good.
Dinner at The Arizona Room G. C.
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History
The new [El Tovar] hotel was
built before the Grand Canyon was a formally protected Federal park, following
on the heels of President Theodore Roosevelt's 1903 visit to the canyon. During
his visit Roosevelt said about the Grand Canyon:
I want to ask
you to do one thing in connection with it in your own interest and in the
interest of the country – to keep this great wonder of nature as it is now ...I
hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or
anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the great
loveliness and beauty of the Canyon. Leave it as it is. You cannot improve upon
it . . .
The hotel was built as a "destination
resort", providing a high level of comfort and luxury standing literally
on the edge of the wilderness, 20 ft from the rim of the canyon. The El Tovar
was one of the first such hotels in national parks, part of a trend in which
railroads would build large hotels in newly-accessible scenic locations like
Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks . . .
Roosevelt returned to stay at the El
Tovar in 1906, and again in 1913, writing a book about his 1913 trip.
Edited from: Wikipedia Offline - El
Tovar
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2017
hours. We downloaded selected today's photos onto the MacAir. Not only do we
not have Internet service, we have no phone service.
Take a break and if you wish we can work on
Dead 17. - Amorella
2027 hours. I moved to the comfortable armchair, propped
my naked feet up on the bed, dropped a couple pillows on my lap for the
MacAir's setting and I am ready.
Carol is watching live CNN with low audio on
the Boston bombing which you find conflicting with my reception. Let's do this
instead, we'll edit your research for use in this segment. First, set up a new
work document to drop this material into. - Amorella
You
have selected five hundred words and some words for which to write an
introduction to Pythia. Now let's go to Plutarch on Wikipedia Offline and
enclose it here. - Amorella
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Plutarch (Ancient Greek: Πλούταρχος, Ploútarkhos, then named), on his becoming a Roman
citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (Μέστριος Πλούταρχος), c. 46
– 120 AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist and Middle Platonist
known primarily for his Parallel Lives
and Moralia. He was born to a
prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about twenty miles east of
Delphi.
Early life
Plutarch was born in 46 AD in the
small town of Chaeronea, in the Greek region known as Boeotia. His family was
wealthy. The name of Plutarch's father has not been preserved, but it was
probably Nikarchus (), from the common habit of Greek families to repeat a name
in alternate generations. The name of Plutarch's grandfather was Lamprias, as
he attested in Moralia and in his Life
of Antony. His brothers, Timon and Lamprias, are frequently mentioned in
his essays and dialogues, where Timon is spoken of in the most affectionate
terms. Rualdus, in his 1624 work Life of Plutarchus, recovered the name
of Plutarch's wife, Timoxena, from internal evidence afforded by his writings.
A letter is still extant, addressed by Plutarch to his wife, bidding her not
give way to excessive grief at the death of their two-year old daughter, who
was named Timoxena after her mother. Interestingly, he hinted at a belief in
reincarnation in that letter of consolation.
The exact number of his sons is
not certain, although two of them, Autobulus and second Plutarch, are often
mentioned. Plutarch's treatise De animae
procreatione in Timaeo is dedicated to them, and the marriage of his son
Autobulus is the occasion of one of the dinner-parties recorded in the 'Table
Talk.' Another person, Soklarus, is spoken of in terms, which seem to imply
that he was Plutarch's son, but this is nowhere definitely stated. His treatise
on marriage questions, addressed to Eurydice and Pollianus, seems to speak of
her as having been recently an inmate of his house, but without enabling us
to form an opinion whether she was his daughter or not.
Plutarch studied mathematics and
philosophy at the Academy of Athens under Ammonius from 66 to 67. He had a
number of influential friends, including Quintus Sosius Senecio and Fundanus,
both important senators, to whom some of his later writings were dedicated.
Plutarch travelled widely in the Mediterranean world, including central Greece,
Sparta, Corinth, Patrae (Patras), Sardes, Alexandria, and two trips to Rome.
At some point, Plutarch took up
Roman citizenship. As evidenced by his new name, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, his sponsor for citizenship was Lucius
Mestrius Florus, a Roman of consular status whom Plutarch also used as an historical source for his Life
of Otho.
He lived most of his life at
Chaeronea, and was initiated into the mysteries of the Greek god Apollo.
However, his duties as the senior of the two priests of Apollo at the Oracle of
Delphi (where he was responsible for interpreting the auguries of the Pythia)
apparently occupied little of his time. He led an active social and civic life
while producing an extensive body of writing, much of which is still extant.
For many years Plutarch served as
one of the two priests at the temple of Apollo at Delphi, the site of the
famous Delphic Oracle, twenty miles from his home. By his writings and lectures
Plutarch became a celebrity in the Roman Empire, yet he continued to reside
where he was born, and actively participated in local affairs, even serving as
mayor. At his country estate, guests from all over the empire congregated for
serious conversation, presided over by Plutarch in his marble chair. Many of
these dialogues were recorded and published, and the 78 essays and other works,
which have survived are now known collectively as the Moralia.
Work as magistrate and ambassador
In addition to his duties as a
priest of the Delphic temple, Plutarch was also a magistrate in Chaeronea and
he represented his home on various missions to foreign countries during his
early adult years. Plutarch held the office of archon in his native
municipality, probably only an annual one, which he likely served more than
once. He busied himself with all the little matters of the town and undertook
the humblest of duties. . . .
According to the 10th century
historian George Syncellus, late in Plutarch's life, emperor Hadrian appointed
him nominal procurator of Achaea – a position that entitled him to wear the
vestments and ornaments of a consul himself.
Plutarch died between the years AD 119
and 127.
Edited with selected underling, from
Wikipedia Offline - Plutarch
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You
also found references to "The Moralia" in Wikipedia Offline, also
include this material here. - Amorella
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The Moralia (ancient
Greek Ἠθικά — loosely translatable as Matters relating to customs and mores)
of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an eclectic collection of 78 essays and transcribed
speeches. They give an insight into Roman and Greek life, but often are also
fascinating timeless observations in their own right. Many generations of
Europeans have read or imitated them, including Montaigne and the Renaissance
Humanists and Enlightenment philosophers.
The Moralia include On
the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great — an important adjunct to
his Life of the great general — On the Worship of Isis and Osiris (a
crucial source of information on Egyptian religious rites), and On the
Malice of Herodotus (which may, like the orations on Alexander's
accomplishments, have been a rhetorical exercise), in which Plutarch criticizes
what he sees as systematic bias in the Father of History's work; along with
more philosophical treatises, such as On the Decline of the Oracles, On
the Delays of the Divine Vengeance, On Peace of Mind and lighter
fare, such as Odysseus and Gryllus, a humorous dialog between Homer's
Odysseus and one of Circe's enchanted pigs. The Moralia were composed
first, while writing the Lives occupied much of the last two decades of
Plutarch's own life.
Some editions of the Moralia
include several works now known to be pseudepigrapha: among these are the Lives
of the Ten Orators (biographies of the Ten Orators of ancient Athens, based
on Caecillius of Calacte), The Doctrines of the Philosophers, and On
Music. One "pseudo-Plutarch" is held responsible for all of these
works, though their authorship is of course unknown. Though the thoughts and
opinions recorded are not Plutarch's and come from a slightly later era, they
are classical in origin and have value to the historian.
The book is famously the first
reference to the problem of the Chicken and the egg.
Moralia asserts a belief in reincarnation:
"The soul,
being eternal, after death is like a caged bird that has been released. If it
has been a long time in the body, and has become tame by many affairs and long
habit, the soul will immediately take another body and once again become
involved in the troubles of the world. The worst thing about old age is that
the soul's memory of the other world grows dim, while at the same time its
attachment to things of this world becomes so strong that the soul tends to
retain the form that it had in the body. But that soul which remains only a
short time within a body, until liberated by the higher powers, quickly
recovers its fire and goes on to higher things." (From The Consolation.)
Mind
Mind or Nous (iconˈnuːs, Greek: νοῦς)
is a philosophical term for intellect. In Moralia, Plutarch agrees with Plato
that the soul is more divine than the body while nous is more divine
than the soul. The mix of soul and body produces pleasure and pain; the
conjunction of mind and soul produces reason, which is the cause or the source of
virtue and vice. (From: “On the Face in the Moon”)
Selected and edited from Wikipedia
Offline - [Plutarch's] Moralia
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2148
hours. This is interesting material and I assume enough needed for Dead 17.
This is enough for tonight. Again, your
absorbing intensity on the material is much more important to me than an
attempt to memorize, something you would not, for obvious reasons, contemplate
doing. Post when politely plausible. - Amorella
[We may
be a day or two behind until we return to civilization.]
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