Fifty Years Of Diverse Peregrinations

Blue Reflected Starlight

A Slowful Learning, Perhaps

Just My Fallible Views, Again

Understanding and Rejecting Extremism
(pdf)

Relict - A Selection of Poems by David Myatt

The Sun, The City

Dark Clouds of Thunder

Four Forgotten Poems

Such A Poem As This

David Myatt - The Way of Pathei-Mathos

Summary of The Philosophy of Pathei-Mathos

Personal Musings On Empathy

Society, Politics, Social Reform, and Pathei-Mathos

Enantiodromia and The Reformation of The Individual

Recuyle of the Philosophy of Pathei-Mathos
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Some Terms Explained

ἔστι δ᾽ ὅπη νῦν
ἔστι: τελεῖται δ᾽ ἐς τὸ πεπρωμένον:
οὔθ᾽ ὑποκαίων οὔθ᾽ ὑπολείβων
οὔτε δακρύων ἀπύρων ἱερῶν
ὀργὰς ἀτενεῖς παραθέλξει

Aesch. Ag. 67-71

Some Selected Favourites

πάθει  μάθος:

If anyone, from reasoning, exclaims loudly that victory of Zeus,
Then they have acquired an understanding of all these things;
Of he who guided mortals to reason,
Who laid down that this possesses authority:
'Learning from adversity'.

Even in sleep there trickles through the heart
The disabling recalling of the pain:
And wisdom arrives regardless of desire,
A favour from daimons
Who have taken the seats of honour, by force.

(Aeschylus: Agamemnon, translated by DW Myatt)

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• In loving memory of Fran, who through her life and death profoundly changed me
• In loving memory of Sue, who died too young

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