Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Geneva and Spain, Borges, as John Barth notes, "seems to have read almost everything." His lectures and writings are scholarly without being bookish. (He deprecates "Cyclical Light," an early poem, as "priggish." "Of course I was young when I wrote it. I had to work in all those Greek names.") The broad background frames but never inhibits his intelligent, singular and personal world. Robert Lowell, introducing the fantast at a reading Wednesday night, called Borges' work amid that of other writers "always an oasis in a sea of competence...
...bamboo canoe sinking into the sacred mud, but within a few days no one was unaware that the silent man came from the South and that his home was one of the infinite villages upstream, on the violent mountainside, where the Zend tongue is not contaminated with Greek and where leprosy is infrequent...
...best film performances (Electra, Zorba the Greek), Irene Papas, playing Clytemnestra, is an actress of chained intensity. She bears herself with the regal poise of a statue by Praxiteles. Though her brows are as dark as doom, her profile is chiseled in luminous Pentelic marble. What she brings to Iphigenia is something that seldom exists on any stage: the adrenal flow of a mother's love and grief. When Clytemnestra learns that Iphigenia cannot be saved, she utters a howl of desolation that seems to be torn from her womb, as if a cycle of pain that had begun...
There are fertility idols from 6000 years ago, Trojan jewelry predating the Trojan War by a millennium, Hittite art, and works done under Assyrian, Greek, and Roman domination. Religious objects, ceremonial paraphernalia, pottery and tableware are as much documents of Anatolian civilization as portraits of Trajan and exquisite manuscript illustrations...
There are, however, interesting ways to use the unusual exhibit. Comparisons can be made between the Greek-influenced pottery and statues of the Archaic through Hellenistic period to be found here and those to be found in the Classical galleries. Compare the intricate detail and delicacy of Ottoman armor with the medieval armor of Western Europe, or a section of the Ottoman Koran with a medieval manuscript...