What this project is about. This one is from Book 13. Bartholomeus Spranger (1546–1611), Glaucus and Scylla (1580-82), oil on canvas, 110 × 81 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Wikimedia Commons. How long it took to read this (aloud): 4 mins 30s What it’s “about”: Scylla on the beach, ‘wooed’ by Glaucus unsuccessfully. Changing Stories:... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 13. Polyphemus and Galatea — Institute for the Study of the Ancient World How long it took to read this (aloud): 12 mins 57s What it’s “about”: Cyclops as incel/’unsuccessful’ suitor. Compare that Onion story “Romantic Comedy Behavior Gets Real-Life Man Arrested” April 7, 1999.... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 13. Pompeo Batoni (1708–1787), Aeneas Fleeing from Troy (1753), oil on canvas, 76.7 × 97 cm, Galleria Sabauda, Turin, Italy. Wikimedia Commons. How long it took to read this (aloud): 8 mins 41s What it’s “about”: Aeneas - the Roman knock-off of Ulysses (as per... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 13. Bernard Picart (1673–1733), Memnon, son of Eos and Tithonus (date not known), engraving, further details not known. Wikimedia Commons. How long it took to read this (aloud): 3 mins 56s What it’s “about”: Mum wants her dead son remembered. Words I didn’t know: none... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 13. Hecuba Blinding Polymestor by Giuseppe Crespi “And at a single leap scratched out his eyes. Her furies gave her supernatural strength; Her bloodstained fingers thrust holes in his head Where once his eyes had been.” This one is from Book 13. How long it... Continue Reading →
In 1995, while in Angola, I read "The Odyssey". I should of course have read it much younger, but there you go. In 2026, in butt-fuck nowhere England I read "The Wind in the Willows." I should, of course... Both are a delight, and deserve re-reading annually, I think. Anyway, the final chapter of TWitW... Continue Reading →
So many other reasons among the 8646 others. Here's another. The people who study, and who think about why social movements haven't done a better job on climate change are - how to put this - blind to the some of the reasons why social movements haven't done a better job on climate change. This... Continue Reading →
The Sacrifice of Polyxena, 1647, by Charles Le Brun, Metropolitan Museum of Art What this project is about. This one is from Book 13. How long it took to read this (aloud): 3 mins 54s What it’s “about”: It ends badly twice - first for one of Priam’s sons, then for a brave young lady.... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 13. How long it took to read this (aloud): 2 mins 40s What it’s “about”: What it said on the tin. No horses though. Words I didn’t know: none Quotable quotes: Troy burned, nor had its fires guttered out, While Jove's shrine drank, a single... Continue Reading →
What this project is about. This one is from Book 13. How long it took to read this (aloud):33 mins 16 seconds (the longest section of the whole thing, longer than Phaethon's Ride and Nestor's Tale of the Centaurs). What it’s “about”: The Greeks argue over who should get Achilles’ armour. Ajax says he should... Continue Reading →
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