Tag Archives: Virgil

CLARISSA: NO PLACE LEFT TO HIDE

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | 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 | Leave a comment

THE WANDERING MYTH: IF ANYONE FINDS A LOST TROJAN

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Miscellaneous | 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 | Leave a comment

AUGUSTUS WAS NOT AMUSED

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Dave

” I was born for poetry. Whatever I tried to say came out as verse”. Ovid was a gifted observer of ”la dolce vita” that delighted the beautiful people of Augustan Rome with his how-to verses on love making. Unfortunately, … Continue reading →