The Duchess prowess in speed skating at the Olympics was anticipate in 1865 by the novel “Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates.”
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Tag Archives: Olympics
Hans Brinker’s Successors Bring Home the Gold
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Virgil and the Olympic Games
The footrace in “Aeneid’s” epic games is a chaotic affair, involving some actual cheating.
Homer and the Early Olympics
Watching the Olympics, I thought of the games in “The Odyssey.”
Simone Biles Rises
Gymnast GOAT Biles has a tattoo of a line from Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise” to inspire her.
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The Olympics Owe a Debt to Poetry
The modern Olympics owe a debt to poetry.
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Bring the Liberal Arts to West Point
A military man argues that the military academies have been emphasizing the STEM disciplines while overlooking the traditional liberal arts. This is a mistake, he argues, and mentions the Agincourt speech in “Henry V.” Sir Philip Sidney, another warrior, would agree and would add Pindar’s Olympian odes.
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Women Hockey Players in a State of Nature
A Robert Bly prose poem about hockey to celebrate the exciting Olympics metal rounds.
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Usain Bolt as Shakespeare’s Puck
Like Shakespeare’s Puck, Usain Bolt toys with his opponents.
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