http://rathrberiding.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] rathrberiding.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] arthurianlegend2003-12-20 02:50 pm

Where'd this quote come from?

"Who was yonder old Roman who said, 'Call no man happy until he is dead'? My task, then, is to bring that greatest of all happinesses to my father, and why should I then rebel against that fate?"

Anoywn - it was on your quiz, where'd you get it from? Thanks!

[identity profile] linaerys.livejournal.com 2003-12-20 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Mordred, Mists of Avalon.

[identity profile] linaerys.livejournal.com 2003-12-20 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it really has to be Mists of Avalon, because that is the only Arthur book I would know well enough to instantly recognize a quote from it, since it is the only one I've read more than once.

I couldn't say what page without looking it up.

[identity profile] anowyn.livejournal.com 2003-12-20 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)

:D Gwydion/Mordred said it in The Mists of Avalon to Morgause by Marrion Zimmer Bradley. It's in "The King Stag" section, Chapter 13, page 650. (I just searched through the book and found it.)

He said it when Morgause, his foster-mother, sat him down and talked to him about what he was "destined" to do; kill King Arthur, his father, and take the throne so the Old Religion could thrive in Britain again.

If you haven't read the book yet, you ought to... it's *amazing*!

[identity profile] anowyn.livejournal.com 2003-12-20 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)

Oh^_^ Well there ya go! Glad I helped :)

[identity profile] restlessechoes.livejournal.com 2003-12-24 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I always believed "Call no man happy until he is dead" was from the Greek, Oedipus...

[identity profile] restlessechoes.livejournal.com 2003-12-24 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Oedipus you do realize, was the ill fated lad prophesised to kill is fathe and marry his mother. And thus he did.