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Melissa Mesku and the  Ship of Theseus     I.    A correspondent who knows her Greek mythology (and her French literary theory) writes:   I...

I. One of two final (prose) poems written by D. H. Lawrence was a work inspired by a reading of Plutarch, concerning the bloo...

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

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