Word: homerizing
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...twinbill. PENN 6, HARVARD 4After six innings of Saturday’s nightcap, the scoreboard at Meiklejohn Stadium showed the improbable line of three runs and zero hits for the Crimson, with Harvard and Penn tied at 3-3. But Quakers right fielder Jarron Smith clubbed a three-run homer in the bottom of the seventh, and Harvard did not collect its first base hit until the eighth, as the hosts went on to seize the late game by a 6-4 final.Smith connected on a belt-high curveball from junior Shawn Haviland, who allowed six earned runs on eight...
...movie is totally gay, a romp in Homer eroticism. Male body worship abounds; the actors, who seem pumped up on Hellenic growth hormones, hardly need shields or swords. Their pecks are their breastplate; their tumorous abs are their body armor. (Thee closing credits list two "personal trainers to Mr. Butler, so I guess the muscles aren't all CGI.) They boast and tease each other about their physiques, which to me sounds like flirting. At times these ancient bodybuilders look like their own statuary, heroic and sometimes headless...
...might be a lone idiot, insulated from reality like all those delirious academics that Lacaria loves to demonize, but I’d much prefer deciphering evidence like the above to his favorite mode of historical writing: namely, “if Homer said it, it must have been true of the nineteenth century, and it must be true...
Share references Keats’ “On first looking into Chapman’s Homer,” which depicts the experience of looking into a book Keats was unable to afford, a book he had to travel to a friend’s house to read...
These may include, among many others, the heroic man of many devices that Homer presents to us in the character of Odysseus, the phronimos, or person of practical wisdom, portrayed by Aristotle, the Christ figure as presented in the New Testament or as interpreted by Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, Luther, Milton, Pascal, Kierkegaard, and Dostoyevsy (to name but a few), the committed friend valorized by Montaigne, the citizen of the Kingdom of Ends described by Kant, the free spirit praised by Nietzsche, and so on. A similarly lengthy list could be compiled of those figures—from Lucifer to Macbeth...