Word: greekness
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...most famous figures of ancient history, a name synonymous with beauty, yet no one knows what she really looked like. A Macedonian Greek, she ruled Egypt and was known for her liaisons-political and romantic-with the two great Roman leaders of her time, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Her legend-wrapped in intrigue, conflict and romance-lives on to this day. As Shakespeare wrote of Cleopatra: "Age cannot wither her nor custom stale her infinite variety...
...first time is an 80-cm granite head-believed to represent Ptolemy XV Caesar (Caesarion), Cleopatra's son by Julius Caesar-found in the harbor at Alexandria, Cleopatra's capital, by French archaeologists in 1997. Side by side are three smaller marble heads from the city-of the Greek god Serapis and two Ptolemaic rulers-that probably have not been displayed together for two millennia...
...fair case. Against the childhood idea of history as something to escape--whose weight and scope made innovation impossible--I was struck by the idea that change was an action, an artifact, an assertion with the power to reorganize history: the effect of emplotment or the famously world-organizing Greek temple...
...accumulative beyond the stark ends of terms, which opened itself continually to the project of intelligent remaking. Certainly mine is a less elegant shoring, a less grand collection than stacks of books or caryatids. But this crude and hasty assemblage is itself the urge to seek out Athenian spaces, Greek or otherwise--spaces from which history, at length and in great detail, allows itself to be made and rewritten...
...GREECE The Pilgrim Pope Seeks Forgiveness Before he arrived in Greece Pope John Paul II was reviled by Greek Orthodox hard-liners as "the grotesque, two-horned monster of Rome." But protesters were disarmed by the frail Pontiff's entreaty for God's pardon of 1,000 years of Roman Catholic sins against the Orthodox Church. The Pope's six-day pilgrimage continued in Syria and Malta...