Word: iliad
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Count on it to keep coming back. The violent and raunchy streak in civilization runs deep and long into the past. More teenage boys might be attracted to the classics if they knew about Homer's graphic descriptions of spear points ripping through flesh in The Iliad or the quarts of stage blood needed for any production of Titus Andronicus. As for sex, the lewd posturings in some paintings of Hieronymous Bosch would be rated NC-17 if they showed up at the multiplex...
Classic texts such as the Iliad and the works of St. Augustine introduce students to foreign cultures, according to Tayler...
...world of the Iliad is a foreign world, a warrior culture," he says. "St. Augustine was a Black from North Africa...
...only an African-American one could have handled with the depth of feeling it required. The migration of blacks from the rural South to the industrial North, as it unfolded in the first decades of the 20th century, had an epic character: a collective Odyssey to match the Iliad of the Civil War. It was forced by the merciless Southern white reaction that came in the wake of Reconstruction, plunging the black population of the Southern states -- all poor, nearly all rural -- into a purgatory of abrogated rights...
Lichtenstein's early strip-based paintings deserve all the enthusiasm they have evoked. Like the Iliad, they come in two basic subjects: girls and war; sometimes, as in The Kiss, 1962, both appear together. The comic frame is the key that enabled Lichtenstein to unlock his nostalgia for experiences he was old enough to have had but didn't -- he went into a pilot training program in Mississippi in 1944 and might have been that pink boy embracing his sweetheart in front of the bomber. His girls are the nymphs of a lost Arcadia of gush, as remote from...