Symbolic Restitution

I was intrigued by the following passage in Walter Burkert’s Greek Religion:The finds from the Neolithic town of Çatal Hüyük now make it almost imo

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Ars Poetica

Archibald MacLeish’s short Ars Poetica ends with the rather famous following two lines: A poem should not meanBut be.These lines are quoted fairly fre

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Zeus and Jupiter, arm in arm

Now this sounds completely ridiculous:Sci Fi is developing the six-hour miniseries “Going Homer,” from “Farscape” alum Ben Browder and Andrew Prowse.

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