{"id":89,"date":"2011-04-24T09:06:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T16:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnworsley.name\/?page_id=89"},"modified":"2012-05-30T07:24:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T14:24:17","slug":"theotreptic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/?page_id=89","title":{"rendered":"Theotreptic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(thee-oh-TREP-tick)  An adjective, characterizing an action done in such a way as to suggest divine guidance.  Derived from the Greek word <span style=\"font-family: Symbol,Verdana,sans-serif\">\u03b8\u03b5\u1f79\u03c4\u03c1\u03b5\u03c0\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2<\/span>, meaning \u201cturned or directed by the gods.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>The word \u2018inspired\u2019 can be used in a similar fashion, but it is limited by three things 1) it is more often used with no suggestion of actual divine influence (which is why we often specify \u2018divinely inspired\u2019), 2) it is rarely used of a noncreative activity (so, we are unlikely to hear \u201chey Joe, your woodchopping was truly inspired!\u201d), 3) it inherently suggests that the thing inspired is desirable\/positive.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Theotreptic\u2019 specifies that the action in question is guided, stimulated, directed, etc., by some external divine force, regardless of either the desirability or creativeness of the action.  The Iliad is full of theotreptic actions, as the gods take turns using mortals like chess pieces, e.g. when Achilles avoids fighting Hector, Apollo makes Aeneas \u201cgo forth to face the son of Peleus, and he put into him great might\u2026 he breathed great might into the shepherd of the host, and he strode amid the foremost fighters.\u201d   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(thee-oh-TREP-tick) An adjective, characterizing an action done in such a way as to suggest divine guidance. Derived from the Greek word \u03b8\u03b5\u1f79\u03c4\u03c1\u03b5\u03c0\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2, meaning \u201cturned or directed by the gods.\u201d The word \u2018inspired\u2019 can be used in a similar fashion, but it is limited by three things 1) it is more often used with no suggestion&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/?page_id=89\" title=\"Theotreptic\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Theotreptic<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":47,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","author-me","post-89","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89\/revisions\/151"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}