Author: Jo Walton

Cites

• Ovid (4)
  • IN: The Philosopher's King (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Quid me mihi detrahis?
    FROM: Metamorphoses, (8), Poem, NULL
  • IN: Necessity (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And now the work is done that cannot be erased by Jupiter's anger, fire and sword, nor the gnawing tooth of time. Let the day, that has power only over my body, end when it will my uncertain span of years. The best part of me will be bourne, immortal, beyond the distant stars.
    FROM: envoi to Metamorphoses, (8), NULL, Italy
  • IN: The Philosopher Kings (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Quid me mihi detrahis?
    FROM: Metamorphoses Book VI, (8), Poem, Italy
• Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola (2)
  • IN: The Philosopher's King (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: What a wondrous and sublime thing it is to be human, to be able to choose your state, whether among the beasts or among the angels.
    FROM: Oration on the Awesomeness of Humanity (Oratio de Hominis Digniate), (1496), Book, Italy
  • IN: The Philosopher Kings (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: What a wondrous and sublime thing it is to be human, to be able to choose your state, whether among the beasts or among the angels.
    FROM: Oration on the Awesomeness of Humanity, (1496), Book, Italy
• Ada Palmer (6)
  • IN: The Philosopher's King (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I am voyaging too. We will need the foundation as much as the dome For those worlds to come true.
    FROM: Somebody Will, (2012), Song, US
  • IN: Necessity (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Answer me, answer me Somebody answer me. Oldest of questions and Deepest of needs. Our Mystery, mystery, Teach us our history. Lost all again To the dark of the grave.
    FROM: A New World, (None), NULL, US
  • IN: The Just City (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The triremes which defended Greece at Salamis defended Mars too.
    FROM: Dogs of Peace, (2016), Novel, US
  • IN: The Philosopher Kings (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I am voyaging too. We will need the foundation as much as the dome For those worlds to come true.
    FROM: Somebody Will, (2012), Song, US
• Marsilio Ficino (2)
  • IN: The Philosopher's King (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Nothing befits a man more than discourse on the soul. Thus the Delphic injunction "Know thyself" is fulfilled, and we examine everything else, whether above or beneath the soul, with deeper insight.
    FROM: letter to Jacobo Bracciolini, (None), Letter, Italy
  • IN: The Philosopher Kings (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Nothing befits a man more than discourse on the soul. Thus the Delphic injunction "Know thyself" is fulfilled, and we examine everything else, whether above or beneath the soul, with deeper insight.
    FROM: letter to Jacobo Bracciolini, (None), Letter, Italy
• Elizabeth Von Arnim (1)
  • IN: The Philosopher's King (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I had a queer obsession about justice. As though justice mattered. As though justice can really be distinguished from vengeance. It's only love that's any good.
    FROM: The Enchanted April, (1922), Novel, Australia/ UK
• John Keats (2)
  • IN: Necessity (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: What leaf'fringed legends haunt about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In tempe or the dales or Arkady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
    FROM: Ode on a Grecian Urn, (1820), Poem, UK
• Plato (4)
  • IN: Necessity (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Socrates: Tell me then, oh tell me-what is the great and splendid work which the gods achieve with the help of our devotions? Euthyphro: Many and fair are the works of the gods.
    FROM: Euthyphro, (-397), Book, Greece
  • IN: The Just City (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Wherever you go, there are plenty of places where you will find a welcome; and if you choose to go to Thessaly, I have friends there who will make muych of you and give you complete protection, so that non one in Thessaly can interfere with you.
    FROM: Crito, (-399), Book, Greece
• John M. Ford (1)
  • IN: My Real Children (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The worm drives helically through the wood And does not know the dust left in the bore Once made the table integral and good; And suddenly the crystal hits the floor. Electrons find their paths in subtle ways, A massless eddy in a trail of smoke; The names of lovers, light of other days Perhaps you will not miss them. That's the joke. The universe winds down. That's how it's made. But memory is everything to lose; Although some of the colors have to fade, Do not believe you'll get the chance to choose. Regret, by definition, comes too late; Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.
    FROM: Sonnets Against Entropy, (2003), Poem, US
• Mary Renault (2)
  • IN: The Just City (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Yes, I know, Plato; but if you always take the steps in threes, one day you will miss a cracked one.
    FROM: The Last of the Wine, (1956), NULL, England/South-Africa
• Jo Walton (1)
  • IN: The Just City (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If you could take that first step You could dance with Artemis Beside Apollo Eleven.
    FROM: Submersible Moonphase, (2009), Poem, US
• Ursula K. Le Guin (1)
  • IN: Among Others (2011) Fiction, Fantasy, British
    EPIGRAPH: Er’perrehnne.
    FROM: The Lathe of Heaven/ L’Autre Côté du rêve, (1971), Novel, US
• Farah Mendlesohn (1)
  • IN: Among Others (2011) Fiction, Fantasy, British
    EPIGRAPH: What one piece of advice would you give to your younger self, and at what age? Any time between 10 and 25: It’s going to improve. Honest. There really are people out there that you will like and who will like you.
    FROM: My LiveJournal, 23 may 2008, (2008), NULL, UK
• Anthony Trollope (1)
  • IN: Tooth and Claw (2003) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: She's like me to bring a dragon home, I suppose. It would serve her right if I did, some creature that would make the house intolerable to her.
    FROM: Framley Parsonage, (1859), Novel, UK
• Alfred Tennyson (1)
  • IN: Tooth and Claw (2003) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, r Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, AJ^ Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravin, shriek'd against his creed Who loved, who suffer'd countless ills, Who battled for the True, the Just, Be blown about the desert dust, Or seal'd within the iron hills ? No more ? A monster then, a dream, o A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime, Were mellow music match'd with him. v
    FROM: In Memorian A.H.H., (1859), Poem, UK
• W. H. Auden (1)
  • IN: Farthing (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Every farthing of the cost, All the dreaded cards foretell, Shall be paid, but from this night Not a whisper, not a thought, Not a kiss nor look be lost.
    FROM: Lullaby (Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love), (1937), Poem, England/US
• George Orwell (1)
  • IN: Farthing (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: All the brass instruments andbig drums in the world cannot turn "God Save the King" into a good tune, but on the very rare occasions when it is sung in full it does spring to life in the two lines: Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks! And, in fact, I had always imagined that this second verse is habitually left our because of a vague suspicion on the part of the Tories that these lines refer to themselves.
    FROM: As I Please, (1947), Article, UK
• Elizabeth Arnim (1)
  • IN: The Philosopher Kings (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I had a quuer obsession about justice. As though justice mattered. As though justice can really be distinguised from vengence. It's only love that's any good.
    FROM: The Enchanted April, (1922), Novel, Australia/England
• Benjamin Franklin (1)
  • IN: Half a Crown (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
    FROM: NULL, (1759), NULL, US
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (1)
  • IN: Half a Crown (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
    FROM: NULL, (1932), NULL, US
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Ha'penny (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat, Please put a penny in the old man's hat. If you haven't got a penny, a ha'penny will do, If you haven't got a ha'penny, then God bless you!
    FROM: Traditional British children's rhyme, (None), Song, UK
• Dorothy L. Sayers (1)
  • IN: Ha'penny (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "When I was a lad," replied the foreman, "young ladies was young ladies. And young gentleman was young gentlemen. If you got my meaning." "What this country wants," said Padgett, "is a 'Itler."
    FROM: Gaudy Night, (1935), Novel, UK
• Rudyard Kipling (1)
  • IN: The King's Peace (2000) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I will have it so that though king, son, and grandson were all slain in one day, still the King's Peace should hold over all England! What is a man that his mere death must upheave a people! We have the Law.
    FROM: Rewards and Fairies, (1910), Novel, England/ India
• Graydon & Walton, Jo Saunders (1)
  • IN: The King's Peace (2000) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If I heed your words that is all that I hall veer have. If I have no sword where then shall I seek peace? A sword might win a Peace's time from tumult; no peace have the hungry, and so the Peace is made from the work of gathered days the many's many choices.
    FROM: Theodwyn's Rede, (1996), Novel, NULL
• Libanius (1)
  • IN: The King's Name (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Up to now they used to shiver every time they heard mention of the Romans' skill in warfare, but now they are victorious, and we die, nobly, as befits brave men, but perishing all the same.
    FROM: Oration 24, (374), Essay, Greece
• Graydon Saunders (1)
  • IN: The King's Name (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Let the dead be carried gently; let them wonder, who are living, what choice shall be tomorrow.
    FROM: The Pebble, (1998), NULL, NULL

Cited by

• Jo Walton (1)
  • IN: The Just City (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If you could take that first step You could dance with Artemis Beside Apollo Eleven.
    FROM: Submersible Moonphase, (2009), Poem, US