A classic hero
You are Aeneas. You’ve got the weight of the world on your shoulders but sometimes you just need to focus on the task at hand and stop moaning! Sometimes your relentless drive can make you seem cold-hearted but you are compassionate and a selfless leader.
How very odd! I thought surely I'd end up as Odysseus. Anyhow, the quiz is to celebrate the release of a new edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary. And speaking of classics, I have to express my deep gratitude to SL, whom I met yesterday for an excellent three-wine lunch on a beautiful afternoon overlooking the uncharacteristically sunny Langhe. He also gave me a set of the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which is already established in my bookshelf on two shelves just under my cherished Cambridge Medieval History. It makes for fascinating reading, and I've already encountered a monastic order, hitherto unbeknownst to me, that I'm considering how to incorporate into the new novel.
How very odd! I thought surely I'd end up as Odysseus. Anyhow, the quiz is to celebrate the release of a new edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary. And speaking of classics, I have to express my deep gratitude to SL, whom I met yesterday for an excellent three-wine lunch on a beautiful afternoon overlooking the uncharacteristically sunny Langhe. He also gave me a set of the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which is already established in my bookshelf on two shelves just under my cherished Cambridge Medieval History. It makes for fascinating reading, and I've already encountered a monastic order, hitherto unbeknownst to me, that I'm considering how to incorporate into the new novel.
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You are Aeneas. You’ve got the weight of the world on your shoulders but sometimes you just need to focus on the task at hand and stop moaning! Sometimes your relentless drive can make you seem cold-hearted but you are compassionate and a selfless leader.
Hmm.. I scored the same as you VD.
Thats weird...
You are Odysseus.
I am Odysseus.
Although I doubt my wife would wait 20 years for me to come back.
Odysseus.
Odysseus here too. Is this another one of those INTJ things?
Although I doubt my wife would wait 20 years for me to come back.
We will keep her company for you.
Odysseus had Penelope, a woman loyal to her alpha mate, and Aeneas had Lavinia and Dido, two women who literally caught fire for the sigma...
I'm sure that isn't relevant in the slightest.
Also unrelated:
Aeneas - "auburn-haired, stocky, eloquent, courteous, prudent, pious, and charming." - from Phrygius.
Odysseus - cunning, deceptive and disguised.
I'm not going to take the test. I'll probably score out as Sisyphus.
Odysseus. Must've been the family questions.
We will keep her company for you.
Regardless of what my wife does, I would still play out the role of Odysseus in the end.
And then kick her to the curb once she's covered in the blood of her suitors.
I took the female quiz and answered based on my wife's personality and got Dido.
Regardless of what my wife does, I would still play out the role of Odysseus in the end.
I was going to sign that comment /, but glancing at wikipedia reveals there were 108 of them. He killed them all. I had forgotten there was more than one.
I always thought the Iliad and The Odyssey were boring and stupid.
Odysseus... although on a few questions I didn't think any answer was an apt description.
You are Odysseus. You are renowned for your cunning wiles and fantastic plans. You’ve always got a trick up your sleeve. You are also a home-loving type and will do anything to protect your family
You are Odysseus.
Yeah, must be an INTJ thing.
You go girlfriend!
Next take this quiz on which Twilight character you are most like, while dreaming of memories past.
Also Odysseus.
Can't be an INTJ thing though, because I didn't test out that way last time I took the Meyers Briggs.
Odysseus
Odysseus ??!!??
Aeneas. And yes, I am INTJ also so apparently a mix of Odysseus and Aeneas will be common for the Ilk.
OT... time for another round of "Guess the Race".
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I hate that. I got the same answer as you, and only took it once. This happens far too often. And I know I am not you. Bah! Still, it's better than matching some dimwit or something. I just hate feeling like I am a shadow. Which I am, just not yours. Ha!
Okay, you all tricked me into taking it, because I was sure it had a bug that only gave binary options.
I'm Achilles.
You are the definition of physical perfection and the ultimate warrior. Everyone wants you on their side. You are also a loyal friend but have a tendency to hold a grudge. Some say you’re not the sharpest spear in the rack…
Uh. No. Then again, silly online quizzes are my only weakness...
That was me, Doom. I thought I was signed in and such. Of course, these mean nothing or less. At least there is that.
You are Penelope. Loyal and patient you tend to avoid conflict. Everyone admires your restraint and elegance but sometimes you can be a bit of a doormat – but you never give up on someone you believe in.
I congratulate you on your acquisition of the EB set. My latest move proved lethal to a huge swath of my book collection, so I look forward to the day I can establish myself in a decent sized residence and have shelves of suitable size to support a decent collection. The sight of such growing up in our family living room had a lot to do with my love of reading (including the Funk and Wagnals 1976 edition)
@ Daniel
Don't forget your heel.
@ Spacebunny:
Everyone admires your restraint and elegance but sometimes you can be a bit of a doormat –
Wow, they've got you pegged.
Aeneas
I am Aeneas as well.
> You are Penelope.
Meredith was Penelope too. :)
You are Achilles. You are the definition of physical perfection and the ultimate warrior. Everyone wants you on their side. You are also a loyal friend but have a tendency to hold a grudge. Some say you’re not the sharpest spear in the rack…
Anyone ever notice that when someone else you like gets something cool, you want it too even though you don't really want it?
Like I was just looking up 11th edition Encyclopedias when I have no desire to buy them. Just like I ended up with this Tag Heuer watch I wear.
Aeneas...
"You are Odysseus. You are renowned for your cunning wiles and fantastic plans. You’ve always got a trick up your sleeve. You are also a home-loving type and will do anything to protect your family."
Must have been the family questions/
Odysseus. I also thought that none of the answers seemed appropriate for some of the questions. Oh well.
Penelope
Aeneas... also INTJ.
Pretty common around here, isn't there a single Paris or Patroclus? Come on progressive trolls, man up, or at the very least, bi-man up.
Aenas
You are Odysseus. You are renowned for your cunning wiles and fantastic plans. You’ve always got a trick up your sleeve. You are also a home-loving type and will do anything to protect your family.
I'm also INTJ by Myers-Briggs reckoning.
Odysseus.
Odysseus? When I was a young man I dreamed of sailing around Ancient Greece and meeting those straight-nose
women.
Now I live in a condo that has 800 apartments. In the neighborhood are various restaurants. Livng in the apartment are Europeans, South Americans, Australians, and West Indian Islanders.
Piped into my apartment are the internet, HD radio, and cable TV. Cable TV has travel channels, boxing/kickfighting channels, science channels, and several Food channels.
I guess my dreaming days are over.
Odysseus.
Odysseus. I've never read any of that Greek literature. I've seen "O' Brother...'
Odysseus also, ESTJ.
What is the plural of Odysseus? There seem to be a lot of us around here.
Odysseus.
Odysseus!
Odysseus, moi.
Changed 4 of the answers to ones that were close choices, still got Odysseus...if they had Hercules I think that would have been more my style.
E. PERLINE April 23, 2012 5:18 PM
Odysseus? When I was a young man I dreamed of sailing around Ancient Greece and meeting those straight-nose
women.
Now recall that Dante had Odysseus end up sinking in sight of Mount Pergatory, whereas Dante not only climbed Mount Pergatory but floated about in Paradise.
Poets are untrustworthy.
Aeneas
You are Odysseus. You are renowned ...
Yep. They got me pegged and about 9 million other Ilk.
aeneas
I can't believe you had lunch with Stan Lee.
When I was a yuth I believeed I was the center of everyting. When I was 35 I read Ecclesiastes. I am still crushed. Now Im just an 'unprofitable servent of the Lord'. Yet I'll NOT submit to another human who is...well.....MPAI. If Im wrong please correct me.
Sing, goddess, of Achilles ruinous anger which brought ten thousand pains to the Achaeans, and cast the souls of many stalwart heroes To Hades, and their bodies to the dogs and birds of prey.
Oh ruinous World!
Your wheels of fate
grind your offspring to meal
only to become
earth once again
Why did I raise you? If only you could sit by your ships untroubled, not weeping, since indeed your lifetime is to be short, of no length. Now it has befallen that your life must be brief and bitter beyond all mens. To a bad destiny I bore you in my chambers.
What worth is the womb
That bears the feast for death?
Yet troubled youth
So constant vie
To fill its gaping maw.
Ahs cee som fok jus cank spok plan inge!-fo yos crac ers ty unc remus!
Would have been funny if Oedipus had been one of the possible characters.
funny? check out Uncle Remus.
As she spoke she loosed from her bosom the curiously embroidered girdle into which all her charms had been wrought - love, desire, and that sweet flattery which steals the judgement even of the most prudent.
Would have been funny if Oedipus had been one of the possible characters.
I don't want to know what questions they would have asked to make Oedipus a possible result.
Odysseus
Got Aeneas too. I's probably because we both have a thing for Feudal Japan and the Porsche 944.
I don't want to know what questions they would have asked to make Oedipus a possible result.
"Your mom is hot. do you A) make her some sweet iced tea, b) make sweet love to her"
Thanks for pointing out the Cabridge Histories BTW. Downloaded them to my kindle.
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