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Illumination, Heroism and Harmony
Preface
The task of preparing teaching-learning
material for value-oriented education is enormous.
There is, first, the idea that
value-oriented education should be exploratory rather than prescriptive, and
that the teaching learning material should provide to the learners a growing
experience of exploration.
Secondly, it is rightly contended
that the proper inspiration to turn to value-orientation is provided by
biographies, autobiographical accounts, personal anecdotes, epistles, short poems, stories of
humour, stories of human interest, brief passages filled with pregnant meanings,
reflective short essays written in well-chiselle
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Homer and the Iliad
Sri Aurobindo and
Ilion
Acknowledgements
This monograph is part of a series on Value-oriented Education
centered on three values: Illumination, Heroism and Harmony.
The research, preparation and publication of the monographs that
form part of this series are the result of the cooperation of the following
members of the research team of the Sri Aurobindo International Institute of Educational Research,
Autryville:
Abha, Alain, Anne, Ashatit, Auralee, Bhavana, Christine, Claude,
Deepti, Don, Frederick, Ganga, Jay Singh, Jean-Yves, Jossi,
Jyoti Madhok, Kireet Joshi, Krishna, Lala, Lola, Mala, Martin,
Mirajyoti, Namrita, Olivier, Pala, Pi
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Homer and the Iliad
A Brief Note
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Homer
is the name attached by the Greeks of ancient
times themselves to the two great epic poems, Iliad
and Odyssey. Unfortunately, not much is known of
him, but there is no doubt that there was indeed an epic poet
called Homer and that he played the primary part in shaping
those two great poems. The text of these two poems exists,
and their literary merit is so great that Homer is considered
one of the very greatest of the world's literary artists.
According to a popular idea which was prevalent through
out antiquity, Homer must have lived not much later than the
Trojan War (1194-1184 BC) about which he sang. Ther
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Sri Aurobindo and Ilion
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Sri Aurobindo was born on the 15th August 1872 at
Calcutta. At an early age of seven, he was taken along with
his elder brothers to England for education, since his
father wanted him to have no Indian influence in the shaping of
his outlook and personality. And yet, even though Sri
Aurobindo assimilated in himself richly the best of the
European culture, he returned to India in 1893 with a burning
aspiration to work for the liberation of India from foreign rule. While in England, Sri Aurobindo passed the I.C.S.
Examination, and yet he felt no call for it; so he got himself disqualified by remaining absent from the riding test. The
Gae
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Instructive Insights into some Principal
Characters, Gods and Goddesses related
to the Trojan War
Extracts from Sri Aurobindo's Ilion
On Achilles
One in his singleness greater than kings and multitudes
sends me.
(Sri Aurobindo, Ilion, in Collected Poems,
Centenary Edition, Vol.5, p.397)
On Paris
Happy of light like a lustrous star when it welcomes the
morning,
Brilliant, beautiful, glamoured with gold and a fillet of
gem-fire,
Paris, plucked from the song and the lyre by the Grecian
challenge,
Came with the joy in his face and his eyes that Fate could
not alter.
Ever a child of t
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