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The stylish battle scene below is proof that the lavish picture book is no recent invention attributable to modernism. This comes from what must have been an extremely handsome copy of the Iliad produced, between the third and fifth centuries … Continue reading
A dionysian frenzy: a downer of a deity?
Only if you lose yourself can you find yourself? This is the message of the eternal orgy of spring. Is Dionysus really the god of rock n’ roll? The god, superhuman power, force of nature,call him what you like, known … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristophanes, Ayn Rand, chuck berry, Euripides, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.K. Chesterton, Homer, Homer The Odyssey, Jim Morrison The Doors, Keith Richards, lester bangs, Mick Jagger, robert christgau, robert palmer, ruth benedict, Stravinsky, Titian
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CLARISSA: NO PLACE LEFT TO HIDE
It is the prose of suspicion; an uncovering of layers of disconcerting awareness between its lines. Samuel Richardson’s ( 1689-1761 ) ambitious narrative of tragic seduction is traced through the hundreds of letters written between Clarissa Harlowe, her confidante Anna Howe, … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Dickens, Denis Diderot, Epistolary literary form, Francis Hayman, George Eliot, Goethe, Henry Fielding, Henry James, Homer, Honore de Balzac, Jane Austen, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Mullan, Marcel Proust, Melvyn Bragg, Samuel Richardson, Thackeray, Virgil
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KEEPING THE DRAMA UNDER CONTROL
His father’s life had been filled with scandal and he spent time in prison. In contrast, Rubens was a devoted family man and led a peaceful life. Sir Dudley Carlton, one of his admirers, described Rubens as “prince of painters and … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Mantegna, Annibile Carraci, Caravaggio, Correggio, Counter Reformation, Giulio Romano, Guido Reni, Homer, Italian Renaissance, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Justus Lipsius, Mannerist Art, Mannerist painting, Paolo Veronese, Peter Paul Rubens, Raphael, Rembrandt, Renaissance Art, Seneca, Sir Dudley Carlton, Stoicism, Tintoretto, Titian
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BLONDE AMBITION & SEDITION: THE WHITE VEIL
The woman’s legs seemed to go on forever. It was hard to tell exactly whom they belonged to, or what she was thinking, but their purpose was clear, dominating a billboard for a new condo…. drawing the eyes of admirers … Continue reading
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Tagged Aphrodite, Betty Grable, Billy Wilder, Bruce Hainley, Debbie Reynolds, Edmund Spenser, Feminism, Francois Rabelais, Gender and Politics, Holliday T. Day, Homer, Isak Dinesen, Jacques Derrida, Jane Mansfield, joan riviere, Joanne Pitman, Laini Michelle Burton, Leni Riefenstahl, Lucrezia di Borgia, Mae West, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Masaccio, Menander, Mikhail Bakhtin, miranda devine, Pamela Anderson, PETA, PETA Dan Matthews, Raphael, Sandro Botticelli, sara ahmed, Seneca, Sigmund Freud, Simon Houpt, Spenser, Sue Williams, Sue Williams Art, The Robber Bridegroom, Theodor Adorno, Travis Gertz, Vanessa Beecroft, Zoe Brigley
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THE WANDERING MYTH: IF ANYONE FINDS A LOST TROJAN
Its been about one hundred and fifty years since Schliemann discovered the site of Troy. Yet no one has found any evidence that the Greeks ever fought there. The capture of Troy and the wanderings of Odysseus have had an … Continue reading
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Tagged Eratosthenes, Frederick Leighton, George Grote, Gustave Moreau, Helen of Troy, Homer, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Jacques-Louis David, Lucas Cranach, Michelangelo, Odysseus, Ovid, Peter Paul Rubens, Publius Ovidius Naso, Richard Lattimore, Rubens, Thucydides, Virgil, Virgil Aenid, W.B. Yeats, William Butler Yeats, Yeats
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HOLD ME MY DADDY SO I CAN LIFT YOU UP
” Hold me my daddy, I never felt lower than dirt on the floor. I say hold me my daddy, I never felt like crying oceans before. If this means war, why are we in it? Might’ve fired off a … Continue reading
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Tagged Diogenes, Fielding Tom Jones, Freud, Homer, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Ilya Repin, Ingres, J.A.D. Ingres, James Mill, John Stuart Mill, Joseph D. Matarazzo, Michael Ferguson, Mike and the Mechanics, Plato, Polymathica, Sigmund Freud, Socrates, Teddy Roosevelt, thepolymathicablog.blogspot.com, Tom Jones, Turgenev, W.C. Fields, XTC, XTC Andy Partridge
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GYPSY KINGS
A razzle-dazzle worth its weight in gold. A bracelet on a pretty Spanish arm once led archaeologists to an ancient trove of gold; a three thousand year old treasure which altered the entire concept of prehistoric civilization in western Europe. … Continue reading
THE DAMP HAND OF MELANCHOLY
Restaurant Utopia. Five miles high , then, when you come to the fork in the road, take it. The sign on the door stated ” Different Cultural Levels Eat Here”. On entering the host delivers a fortune cookie, in which … Continue reading
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Tagged A Thurber Carnival, Damon Runyan, Danny kaye, Dorothy Parker, Freud, Henry James, Homer, J.D. Salinger, James Thurber, Jesse Bier, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Linda Hutcheon, Mark Twain, Nabokov, Nathaniel West, P.G. Wodehouse, Paul Auster, Peter Sellers, Ring Lardner, Salinger, Sherwood Anderson, Sigmund Freud, The Catbird seat, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
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