Classical Reception Is Anything That Adapts, Borrows From, Capitalises On, Draws Upon, Bastardises, Etc.

Oedipus on the Bodies of his Sons. 1912. Gabriel Jules Charles Girodon. French 1844-1941. oil/canvas. winner Prix de Rome 1912.     http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

adam parry, the language of achilles

The Reading (Catullus and Clodia) (Giulio Aristide Sartorio, 1860 - 1932)

The Foundation of the World

People do not wish to know that the whole of human culture is based on the mythic process of conjuring away man's violence by endlessly projecting it upon new victims. All cultures and all religions are built on this foundation, which they then conceal, just as the tomb is built around the dead body that it conceals. Murder calls for the tomb and the tomb is but the prolongation and perpetuation of murder. The tomb-religion amounts to nothing more or less than the becoming visible of the foundations, of religion and culture, of their only reason for existence.

Violence and the Sacred, René Girard (1972), quoted in The Girard Reader, James G. Williams ed. (2000)

Call back your courage, send off your fearful sorrow- Perhaps someday you'll recall even this with fondness.

Vergil, Aeneid I.203-204

wretchedly perish then said cicero wednesday

My ides tiramisu, if you even care

me before making yet another unintelligible post about my current hyperfixations

ranking sophocles plays in order of how real ghosts are in them

this is going to have me on my hands and knees dry heaving