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Venantius was so interested in the problems of comedy; in fact, fables of this sort can also be considered kin to the comedies of the ancients. Both tell not of men who really existed, as tragedies do; on the contrary, as Isidore says, they are fictions:
William Weaver • The Name of the Rose
The SATYRICON OF PETRONIUS (Ancient Roman Prose and Verse in English and Latin) - Annotated the Fall of Ancient Rome
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— Daughter of Miletus “Byblis" by William Adolphe Bouguereau https://t.co/OSB3kOeSKl
Good was never good. Evil was never evil.
What our presentism dubiously dubs "postmodern" was with us too in antiquity.
Just read Aeschylus alone. https://t.co/nSMbJCAjBG
Δηλαδή ο Νατσιός κάνει αντιπολίτευση διαβάζοντας το βιβλίο του Άδωνι;
Και του αφιερώνει και ποίημα του Βάρναλη;
"Πέτα την ανθρωπιά σου
κι απ΄ τον αφέντη πιάσου!
Κι άμα σε φτύνει αφτός,
να κάθεσαι σκυφτός
και θα ΄χεις τα πρωτεία
στη σάπια... See more
Ιωάννης Βατάτζηςx.com
"You are leaving me to the dogs and into the mouth of the beast. Cut my head, christian Rhomaioi,
take it, Cretans, keep it in Crete..."
The City fell. Sooner or later the whole Europe would hear the devastating news, from London to Crete. Here's how it was recorded in those two opposite corners of... See more
My tears had stilled now and I listened intently. I only knew Medusa as a monster. I had not thought she had ever been anything else. The stories of Perseus did not allow for Medusa with a story of her own.
-Jennifer Saint, Ariadne