Lee Love on fri 27 jul 07
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On 7/27/07, jeanne wood wrote:
>. Let Chiron also come and bring many Centaurs
> -- all that escaped the hands of Heracles and all that were destroyed: let them make sad
> havoc of the pots and over throw the kiln, and let the potters see the mischief and be >grieved; but I will gloat as I behold their luckless craft. And if anyone of them stoops to
>peer in, let all his face be burned up, that all men may learn to
deal honestly.
Haha! When I visited the Parthenon Marbles, I sided with the Centaurs!
What Homer says corresponds to what I found below:
English word "sincere" comes from two Latin words:
sine = without
cere = wax.
In Ol' Rome, potters used wax to cover up cracks and flaws in pottery.
Potters who wanted folks to know they did not follow this practice had
the sign in the shop declaring , "Sine Cere" - Without Wax, no hiding
of imperfections or flaws.
In Greek the word is:
aploteti = "sincerity"
It includes not only the idea of sincerity, but also doing more than
is expected: Promising less but giving more than expected.
--
Lee in Mashiko, Japan
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
http://mashikopots.blogspot.com/
"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." -
Henry David Thoreau
"Let the beauty we love be what we do." - Rumi
jeanne wood on sat 28 jul 07
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That's great, thanks Lee!
Fills in a piece of the puzzle, Homer must have been sold one of those "insincere" pots at one time.
-Jeanne
Lee Love wrote:
On 7/27/07, jeanne wood wrote:
Haha! When I visited the Parthenon Marbles, I sided with the Centaurs!
What Homer says corresponds to what I found below:
English word "sincere" comes from two Latin words:
sine = without
cere = wax.
In Ol' Rome, potters used wax to cover up cracks and flaws in pottery.
Potters who wanted folks to know they did not follow this practice had
the sign in the shop declaring , "Sine Cere" - Without Wax, no hiding
of imperfections or flaws.
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