Euripides’ The Bacchae was written 2500 years ago. Given the shape our environment is in, the play is more urgent than ever. The story involves the nature god Dionysus, who visits Thebes followed by a troupe of dancing women, the Maenads or Bacchae. Dionysus is the product of a union between Zeus and Semele, a […]
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Faced with Beauty, ‘Tis Folly to Be Wise
Claude Lorrain,”View of La Crescenza” (1648-50) Poetry enhances our lives in a host of little ways. It did so in a walk I took around campus with my wife last week. It was a beautiful fall day and we work at a beautiful campus. There is an incline at the edge of college that we […]
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