I'm... who? I don't even have a lyre! Just a harp...

[fajrdrako]

I got this from duncanmac.

I think I wanted to be Achilles. Or Patroclus. Or Odysseus. Or Bagoas, does he count? Probably not.

Orpheus 0% Extroversion, 100% Intuition, 55% Emotiveness, 80% Perceptiveness

You are an artist, an aesthete, a sensitive, and someone who has never really let go of that childlike innocence. To you, all of life has a sense of wonder in it, and the story of Orpheus was written about someone just like you. When the Argo passed the island of the Sirens, Orpheus played a song more beautiful than the Sirens to prevent the crew from becoming enticed. When his wife died, he ventured into the underworld to charm Hades but, in his naivete, he looked back becoming trapped there. You can capture your unique world view and relate it to others with the skill of a master storyteller. Your sensitivity and creativity make you a treasure to the human race, but your thin-skinned nature and innocence can cause you a lot of disenchantment and pain. What's doubly unfortunate is that, if you try to lose those traits, you never will, and everyone will be able to tell that you're putting up an artificial shell to prevent yourself from being hurt. Famous people like you: Hemingway, Shakespeare, Mr. Rogers, Melville, Nick Tosches Stay clear of: Icarus, Hermes, Atlas

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on Extroversion You scored higher than 99% on Intuition You scored higher than 99% on Emotiveness You scored higher than 99% on Perceptiveness

Link: The Greek Mythology Personality Test written by Aleph_Nine on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

Okay, I'll admit to being an aesthete and sensitive, but 'childlike innocence'? And here I like to think of myself as a worldy sophisticate, intellectual and insightful. Ah well.

Comments

[idiotgrrl.livejournal.com]

Pretty! Yeah, steer clear of Atlas --- it's pretty clear that here in the states he's been shrugging for a long time.

Sorry on Bagoas, he's not Greek, even by adoption. He is and always will be proudly Persian. (And what he thinks of the current regime probably cannot be written on a scroll in good Greek. Vulgar Greek, now...)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

steer clear of Atlas --- it's pretty clear that here in the states he's been shrugging for a long time.

LOL - oh yes, how very true!

Bagoas, he's not Greek, even by adoption. He is and always will be proudly Persian.

Oh dear yes, I didn't mean to reassign his nationality or ethnicity! or even to imply such a thing! No, I was thinking merely that he hung out with the Greek army (or at least the leader thereof) and was a facet in Greek history. And that I like him. Funny how I had to stop and think to come up with Greeks I personally like. Leonidas, perhaps? Lycurgus? Or the guy with the twisted foot... give me a minute and I might remember his name. (Not Oedipus.) But these are all figures of history, not myth. I more into history, unless I'm feeling particularly Jungian.

Why is it that I seem to like these guys in inverse proportion to how much I actually approve of them? (Not Bagoas, but those Spartans.)

[wanderinunicorn.livejournal.com]

I know it' a stupid ouestion because everyone has his own choices, but why Bagoas; why not Hephaistion? Have you read the Alexander's boigraphy by Robin Lane Fox?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

NO, it's not a stupid question - I know a lot of people like Hephaistion. I like Bagoas from the depiction of him in Mary Renault's The Persian Boy and the movie Alexander. I like his Persian qualities, as contrasted to Alexander and Hephaistion's Greek qualities. I haven't read the Robin Lane Fox biography, but I intend to.

[wanderinunicorn.livejournal.com]

It's a very good biograpy; Robin Lane Fox helped Oliver Stone to develope the script for the movie; I liked it despite the bad critics. Although there is nothing really sure about Alexander because the written sources seems to be only copies from the period about three hundred years after his dead, Alexander's bound with Hephaistion and their friendship are often mentioned and probably were truth. I'm glad that Stone was courageous enough not to hide this aspect of his life.
I love everything about Alexander, and I would love to read more about him, but I fear that the life is to short. BTW, I've heard about Mary Renault's novel before. I've read somewhere on the imdb that the actor who played Bagoas is Oliver Stone nephew (?).

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I liked it despite the bad critics.

The movie? I liked it too, though I hated the pacing. The history was far better than you usually get with Hollywood movies. I've read numerous novels and biographies of Alexander too - a fascinating man; I am equally or more fascinated by his father Philip.

I've heard about Mary Renault's novel before.

I think it's excellent. She wrote two novels about Alexander - the first, "Fire from Heaven", was about the early part of his life and focussed more on Hephaistion. The second, "The Persian Boy", was from Bagoas' point of view. She also wrote a non-fiction book about Alexander called "The Nature of Alexander".

I've read somewhere on the imdb that the actor who played Bagoas is Oliver Stone nephew (?).

Francisco Bosch? really? cool! I didn't know that. He's a Spanish dancer. I thought he was excellent as Bagoas. Too bad he didn't get any lines.

[bright-lilim.livejournal.com]

Hello, fellow Orpheus! :) Maybe we can start a band together.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

And call ourselves Pillar of Salt?

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

When it comes to admirable Greeks, I can think of at least two: Socrates and Plato.

As for Atlas "shrugging" ... well, I no longer think so, given the fact that 'antitrust' laws have not really been enforced in the U.S. since Ronald Reagan gutted them over twenty years ago. As for Canada, such a concept has never been applied in the first place; how else can you explain the Canadian banking system? :-/

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

When it comes to admirable Greeks, I can think of at least two: Socrates and Plato.

Admirable, yes. But people I identify with? People whose presonal story intrigues me? No.

such a concept has never been applied in the first place; how else can you explain the Canadian banking system? :-/

Believe me, I would not even begin to try to explain the Canadian banking system! It's way beyond explanation.