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Showing posts with label ancient greece. Show all posts
1 Oct 2024

Émile Gilliéron: the Man Who Sold the Ancient World

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Left: The Mask of Agamemnon (c. 1906) Right: Émile Gilliéron (1850-1924)     I.    If you are ever fortunate enough to visit The Metropoli...
15 Nov 2022

Brief Notes on the History of the Human Flock 1: The Pagan Era

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Late Roman marble copy of a Kriophoros by the ancient Greek sculptor Kalamis  (5th-century BC)     Many of us have what might be termed an ...
26 Jun 2022

Jeff Koons: Apollo (The Golden Boy of American Art Meets the Golden God of the Greeks)

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Jeff Koons: Apollo Kithara (2019-22) [1]   Jeff Koons on Instagram I.    Apollo is the golden boy of ancient Greek mythology: the god of su...
18 Feb 2022

And Venus Among the Fishes Skips

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Ana de Macedo: the Venus of Alentejo Photo used with permission from her Instagram account  @ana_macedo      I.    Venus rising from the se...
18 Mar 2021

Talaria: On the Secularisation of Winged Footwear from Hermes to Jeremy Scott

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  Adidas Originals by Jeremy Scott  JS Wings 2.0 Gold (2014)     As everybody knows, the first pair of winged sandals belonged to the Greek ...
19 Aug 2019

Gymnosophy 1: On the Naked Philosophers of the Ancient World

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Medieval image (c. 1420) of Alexander encountering the γυμνοσοφισταί I. Ascetic - often militant - nudity has a very long histor...
3 Dec 2015

At the Gym with D. H. Lawrence

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Natural born pedagogue and former Croydon school teacher, D. H. Lawrence, was keenly interested in the subject of education a...
14 Jul 2014

Aspasia

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Aspasia on the Pnyx , by Henry Holiday (1888)  Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre According to Nietzsche, great phi...