May 2010
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Scripsit Gary Dexter in the Telegraph: The Iliad got its title because the ancient name for Troy was ‘Ilion’, and the suffix -ad tended to denote poems. So far, so straightforward. For 25 centuries this cornerstone of western culture remained largely untampered-with – and then along came Alexander Pope. With his Dunciad, a mock-heroic polemic…
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Image by themaxsons via Flickr The incipit of a piece from the Pilot: Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli apparently isn’t fond of wardrobe malfunctions, even when Virginia’s state seal is involved. The seal depicts the Roman goddess Virtus, or virtue, wearing a blue tunic draped over one shoulder, her left breast exposed. But on the new…
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Here’s an interesting tidbit: The publishing house Smith & Kraus perhaps has the answer. It has recently launched a series titled “Playwrights in an Hour” that consists of 27 slim volumes dedicated to different dramatists. The series — a kind of Red Bull for theater buffs — covers Western writers from Shakespeare and Moliere to…
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FWIW … the Marlins are a baseball team, but I suspect the conversation mentioned below is not confined to athletic contexts: And John Baker once played William Wallace in an Albequerque Isotopes’ remake of Braveheart (oh, you’ll find it worth watching), though that isn’t all: he also enjoyed Greek philosopher Plato‘s bookRepublic over the weekend in Denver, which…
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