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...Odyssey is the story of the long voyage home from the Trojan Wars of Odysseus, lord of Ithaca, to be reunited with his wife Penelope and son Telemachus. On the way, he and his men suffered such ordeals as imprisonment by brutish cannibal giants, shipwreck, seduction, famine and feast. Meanwhile, back at the palace, a half-hundred soft civilians squatted on the absent lord's domain, eating and drinking their heads off, seducing the maidservants, insulting the stripling heir, and competing for the honor of consoling the presumed widow. The whole bloody and wonderful business ends when Odysseus, disguised...
VISITORS to the Reception Center of the TIME and LIFE Building these next few weeks may feast their eyes on a majestic sight: a full-color photographic reproduction (one-third scale) of Michelangelo's great frescoes in the Sistine Chapel at Rome. The Sistine ceiling depicts the Creation, the Fall of Man and the Flood; an altar wall shows the Last Judgment...
Here, on the Feast of the Annunciation in 1679, "the Lily of the Mohawks" consecrated her virginity to God and, in tribute to the Virgin Mary, whose color is blue, she changed her customary scarlet blanket for a blue one. Until the missionaries stopped her, Kateri went to Indian extremes of asceticism-lashing and branding herself, walking barefoot in the snow, putting hot embers between her toes and sleeping in brambles. She was soon venerated by her fellow Christian Indians as a living saint, and when she died at 24, they tore up her clothes for relics. Ever since...
...Rigaud, portraitist of the Marquis de Dangeau. Rigaud's primary purpose was obviously to flatter, but in so doing he threw all of Le Brun's strictures out the window. Voluptuous draperies billow in the background in the manner of Rubens. The gold and glitter become a feast not for the mind but the eye; color dominates form, and classicism surrenders to baroque self-indulgence. In few works of art was Louis' age of splendor shown up more clearly as the time of vanity...
Buried Alive. The burial of the body, or even a funeral feast, does not necessarily conclude the obsequies. In parts of Sumatra, bones are dug up and given an annual airing. In Rumania, bones are sometimes dug up after three, five or seven years, taken to church, blessed, and reburied with full rites. And among the Azande, a Congo tribe, graves are opened for less innocent purposes. Tribesmen are apparently subject to dreams in which the dead demand a human sacrifice, and when the tribal oracle approves such a dream, a victim is found, his legs are broken...