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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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SOMETIMES ITS BETTER TO FORGET
Not every man is a legend in his own time but Giacomo Casanova (1724-1798) achieved legendary status well before his death, living long enough to be a “consultant’ on the first production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Soldier, scholar, lawyer, physician, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alan Hunt, Arthur Machen, Arthur Symons, Boilly, Botticelli, Caravaggio, Casanova, Casanova Syndrome, Cathleen Hardy, Diomnysis, Giacomo Casanova, James Gillray, John Walsh, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Judith Summers, Lizzy Davies Guardian, Lorenzo Da Ponte, mandy katz, Michel Foucault, Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso, Ron Hogan, Stephen Amidon, Susan Swan, Titian, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Zanetta Casanova
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