WorkHesiod
Theogony (c. 700 BCE) Inferred
Hesiod · c. 700 BCE
InferredFuller invokes the Titans as a mythological reference to represent "the lower passions," describing their failed attempt to scale the heights where the gods dwell.
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Documented 1838–1843
Letters • Books
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“The Titans are the lower passions— They dared to attempt to scale with ladders those serene heights where dwell the gods.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Inferred Fuller invokes the Titans as a mythological reference to represent "the lower passions," describing their failed attempt to scale the heights where the gods dwell.
“I know the Titanic era must come ere long, but, oh Cary, do nothing to hasten it. Ward it off as long as possible by occupation.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Inferred Fuller alludes to the Titanomachy through the Titans' failed assault on Olympus, invoking the classical mythological tradition found in Hesiod's Theogony.
“Remember that I am not yet divine, / Long years of service to the fatal Nine / Are yet to make a Delphian vigor mine.”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
Inferred Fuller invokes the nine Muses of Greek tradition as 'the fatal Nine' in her poem 'Ganymede to His Eagle'.The phrase 'the fatal Nine' is the traditional designation for the nine Muses of Greek mythology (Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, Urania), presided over by Apollo at Delphi.