Curse...

[johan osterman]

Originally posted by Endoperez:


Johan O., what did you mean with the following:
"If you want an ad hoc argument you might consider that the will of the fates is unmoveable, as King Oedipus might have told you"?

I meant it was a spur of the moment argument, devised for defending the unremovabilty of the curse, an argument that was not the original reason but constructed to shore up my position, not the original reason for the state of affairs.

Fate is often depicted in mythology as being immutable, no matter how you strive against it, the Fates is a name often used for the Godesses of fate. Oedipus is a Theban king in a greek tragedy that fate decrees is to kill his father and marry his mother. His father tries to get rid of him in order to avoid his fate but in the end Oedipus commits both acts. The same kind of depiction of the inevetabilty of fate is common in norse and greek mythology. Other greek characters that succumb to the fate of killing their fathers or grandfathers are Persues and Theseus.

[ October 02, 2003, 16:20: Message edited by: johan osterman ]