Sophocles and Homer present compelling cases for granting full funeral rights to the Boston Marathon bomber.
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Antigone Would Bury Boston Bomber
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Will Kevin Durant Suffer Akhilleus’s Fate?
Kevin Durant is like Akhilleus. In more ways than one.
NFL Rookie QBs and Mac the Knife
RGIII, Russell Wilson, and Andrew Luck are escape artists in the mode of Mac the Knife.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "I burn my candle at both ends", Andrew Luck, Beggar's Opera, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Football, Joel Chandler Harris, John Gay, NFL, Odyssey, Robert Griffin III, Russell Wilson, Sports Comments closed
Pinning Down Protean Politicians
In his evasiveness and malleability, Romney resembles the Greek sea god Proteus.
Sons Must Kill Their Fathers, Alas
There’s is no easy way for son’s to find their identities apart from their fathers, but they have no choice but to try.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Denis Diderot, fathers and sons, Henry IV, Odyssey, Shakespeare, Stendahl, The Scarlet and the Black Comments closed
Crowd Intoxication and the Call of the Gods
Athena visiting Odysseus at a critical point in battle represents the sort of intuitive decisions that we associate with great athletes and geniuses.
One of Literature’s Sexiest Eating Scenes
Homer gains Fielding’s admiration by his ability to move seamlessly between epic grandeur and “the shameless dog of the belly.” Perhaps it is Homer’s dexterity that gives Fielding the idea for his own contribution to “Great Eating Scenes in Literature.”
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Spain’s Tiger Burning Less Bright
Did the god that made the elegant strokes of Roger Federer also make the bruising style of Nadal? Like William Blake gazing at the lamb and the tiger in “Tyger, Tyger,” we can only shake our heads bemused.
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At 60, a Comfortable Old Scarecrow
Having just turned 60, I’ve been thinking of Teiresias. Wise though the blind seer may be, his advice doesn’t help others that much. Aging, in other words, appears to require humility.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Aging, Bacchae, Carl Jung, Euripides, Odyssey, Oedipus, Sophocles, T. S. Eliot, Wasteland Comments closed