Our world ------To be or not to be

The epic poem The Aeneid by Virgil(70-29 BC) had pictured a profound distressing atmosphere fore-covering the massarce of Trojan Horse in Troy at mid night,  that:

Oh my country!
Troy, home of the gods! You great walls of the Dardans
long renowned in war!
...
But all the while
the skies wheeling on and night comes sweeping in
from the Ocean Stream, in its mammoth shadow swallowing up
the earth, and the Pole Star, and the treachery of the Greeks.
Dead quiet.  (306-319.Trans: Robert Fagles, Penguin 2006)
More impressive than that of the epic poem of Homer The Iliad is obviously. And in the Old Testament , Joshua had recorded that:
On the day the Lord gave the Amorites over to Isreal, Joshua said to the Lord on the presence of isreal:
"O sun, stand still over Gibeon,....  ."
The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day. (12-13)
I have imagined that if Hector , the hero of Troy, would like to plead Apollo ,the god of sun, stopping his wheels, then  histroy will be rewrited.
But if we fall back on fatalism to tragic events of human histroy, the more we strive to build up a humanist world for our off-springs rationally other than ''dog eats dog''.
-----Dardans are gates of Troy.The photo shown is ruin of one of the dardans, probably the site Achilles killed Hector in the final fighting in Iliad (22, 194. Trans: Robert Fagles, Penguin, 1990) .

First time posted @ 2007-01-09 11:47