from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 86

Ovid's Metamorphoses: the ironic, debunking deconstructionist 'anti-ideologue' ideologue....

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 85

Hosea's description of a biblical people who attempt to return to paganism....
seen as picture of Dido, a pagan who having been 'infected' with Aeneas' historical project of building Rome, cannot return to just being queen of Carthage...
a preface to the difference in perspectives between Vergil and Ovid....

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 84

Before beginning his examination of Ovid Gil quibbles with the following quote from C. S. Lewis:

“Christians and pagans have much more in common with each other than either have with a post Christian. The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as that between those who worship and those who do not. A post Christian is not a pagan. You might as well think a married woman recovers her virginity by divorce. The post Christian is cut off from the Christian past and therefore doubly cut off from the pagan past.”

(from C S Lewis' inaugural Lecture from The Chair of Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University in 1954)

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 83

Another "Distant Mirror"...


Publius Ovidius Naso

Mentioned in this excerpt:
Barbara Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror"

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 82

This excerpt picks up on the previous post about Courtney Love with Gil asking what does it mean to say, "I want to be the one with the most cake"?

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 81

From Vergil's Aeneid to the NY Times...the metaphysics of fame


Courtney Love - "I want to be the one with the most cake."

1995 New York Times article referenced in this excerpt:
"A Singer Spurns Role of the Victim"

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 80

Good Fame and Bad Fame in Vergil...and the role of Alecto

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 79

Continuing with Vergil's

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 78

The Roman version of fame: Publius Vergilius Maro

from the Archives: Famished Craving - Part 77

The Roman Tradition: Julius Caesar - pontifex maximus