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...Standing Rock, the combative past survives in surnames. On radio station KLND--that's Lakota, Nakota, Dakota--the news is from Mike Kills Pretty Enemy, the music from Virgil Taken Alive. Last month tribe members gathered near the grave site of Sitting Bull, General George Custer's conqueror, to pray at the graves of long-ago chiefs--Thunderhawk, Rain-in-the-Face, Running Antelope. A package event for tourists? Hardly. The Indians got there on horseback and camped in the cold. In fact, they were not dressed for camcorders. They wore jeans, permanent press and wrap-around shades. When they...
Segal specialized in Greek tragedy, especially the plays of Sophocles, but he also studied the mythological works of Ovid, the epics of Virgil and pastoral poetry...
...mother of eight, taught boys and rusticated Harvard students in her home [and] would read Homer or Virgil as she shelled peas and rocked a cradle,” Knowles said of Ripley in a memo she sent to Emilie Norris, who is the project manager for the University cultural property survey...
...posthumous release of an artist’s work is an inherently thorny enterprise. It is a tradition that began with Virgil, the Roman poet par excellence, who took ill before he could finish his masterpiece, the Aeneid, and on his deathbed consigned it to flames so that it would not be published without his finishing touches. Western civilization has Augustus to thank for saving the Aeneid from this fiery fate. Countermanding Virgil’s request, he had the poem edited and published against the dead poet’s wishes. The emperor’s motives, however, were...
Segal specialized in Greek tragedy, especially the plays of Sophocles, but he also studied the mythological works of Ovid, the epics of Virgil and Greek lyric and pastoral poetry. He maintained interests in both Greek and Latin texts and kept up active scholarship in both fields...