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Showing posts with label greeks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label greeks. Show all posts
25.4.13

Sharing The Myth of Sisyphus With Kids: The Original Rolling Stone

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I’ve been teaching Greek myth to a class of 8-12-year-olds since February, and it’s been so much fun hearing what the kids say about myths...
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10.2.11

Aesthetic Thursdays: Dionysos Holds a Theater Mask

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Terra-Cotta Mixing Bowl, Dionysos and Young Pan, 410-390 B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art The mixing bowl depicted above was probably ma...
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24.12.10

Aesthetic Thursdays: Medusa

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If the canvas is Perseus's shield, then this is Medusa's last stare. Caravaggio, Medusa, 1597, Oil on canvas mounted on wood P...
8.11.10

Plato's Allegory of the Cave in Plain Language

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Retold from The Republic of Plato image credit: "Plato and the Pure Forms"        Once upon a time, everyone on earth li...
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30.4.10

Ten Everyday Words and Phrases that Originate from Greek Mythology

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We Use Phrases from Greek Mythology in the English Language and We Often Do Not Realize it We use the following phrases, "Achilles H...
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21.1.10

The Rage of Achilles - A Review of the First Book of Homer's Iliad

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"Rage, goddess, sing of the rage of Achilles" (1.1) Homer, Book One of The Iliad A review of the first book of Homer's Ili...
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1.1.10

Poem: Four Loves

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The shrink’s nose told me to read The Four Loves so i did i read the whole book in two sittings, even the bibliography, well, sort...
24.12.09

Poem: Juice Stained Man

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