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Tag Archives: Sophocles
Competing Heroic Narratives in Super Bowl
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Bill Belichick, Denver Broncos, Homer, Odyssey, Oedipus, Peyton Manning, Seattle Seahawks, Super Bowl, Wes Welker Comments closed
An Ideal Mother
When I think of a mother-son relationship that most matches my own, I think of Betsy Trotwood and David Copperfield.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Everything that Rises Must Converge, Flannery O'Connor, mothers and sons, Oedipus, Parenting, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf Comments closed
JFK as Ancient Greek Hero
Ancient Greek literature provides us with a power lens through which to examine the John F. Kennedy assassination.
Manziel: Whom the Gods Would Destroy…
Johnny Manziel has “Greek tragic hero” written all over him.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Doctor Faustus, Football, Johnny Manziel, Marlowe, Oedipus, Sports Comments closed
Antigone Would Bury Boston Bomber
Sophocles and Homer present compelling cases for granting full funeral rights to the Boston Marathon bomber.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Ajax, Antigone, Boston Marathon bombing, funerals, Homer, Iliad, Odyssey, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Terrorism Comments closed
Shakespeare Was Mandela’s Lifeline
A copy of Shakespeare’s works that circulated through apartheid-era prisons shows the Bard providing solace for the prisoners.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Antigone, Henry V, Merchant of Venice, Nelson Mandela, Shakespeare in the prisons, Tempest, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Doc, Prescribe Me a Poem
Literature as therapy, Greek tragedy as soap opera: assorted articles about lit and life.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Variation on a Theme by Rilke", catharsis, Denise Levertov, Elizabeth Bishop, Greek tragedy, Marianne Moore, Oedipus Rex Comments closed
Joe Paterno, a Modern Day Oedipus
The lessons of the Sophocles play “Oedipus” can be applied to disgraced Penn State coach Joe Paterno.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged child molestation, Football, Jerry Sandusky, Joe Paterno, Oedipus, Penn State Comments closed