The sets are by Roger Hart and costumes by Donald Cardwell.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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The sets are by Roger Hart and costumes by Donald Cardwell.
The sets are by Roger Hart and costumes by Donald Cardwell.
Monday, July 19, 2010
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The dromedary psychopomp
I had recently informed the reopening of July 7 rooms of Greek sculpture in the Louvre (cf. http://cheminsantiques.blogspot.com/2010/06/dans-les-secrets-de-la-venus-de-milo.html ). Naturally, I did not take long to go there. I was delighted to see my favorites, among them three of Praxiteles (or attributed to, or copied from, I care about such subtleties, the enjoyment of contemplation), Apollo Sauroctonus (= killer lizard, in this case a lizard), Aphrodite and Artemis at the apple hanging up his coat: the gods young, sophisticated, graceful, carved in marble almost translucent flakes. Even the Venus de Milo seemed less than usual pitcher - is it different light (it is now in daylight near a window)? do you read the comments that have been allocated (in the famous blog)? - And I found his smile seductive beauty of a troubling ...
More importantly, I discovered a relief that I do not remember ever having seen. This is indeed soon fifteen years that I have a passion for camels, and about the same (and more) that I have traveled the halls of the Louvre. This is a bas-relief of a camel ridden by a girl with butterfly wings:
The legend does heighten the mystery
"Votive relief (?):
Psyche on a camel
second century av. JC
Alexandria Troas (Turkey)
Marble
function as the interpretation of this relief is not certain. Psyche with butterfly wings mounted on a camel could symbolize the voyage of the soul toward the world of the Blessed. "
In Greek, the soul is called "psyche" and is often personified as a young girl, especially in the beautiful story of Apuleius tells the story of Eros (Love) and Psyche, but this story is after four centuries to our relief, and there is also no mention of a trip by camel (the narrator is an ass, but that's another story!).
In Greek mythology, the epithet "psychopomp '(=' conductor of souls") was often attributed to the god Hermes, when its function is to conduct the souls of those who have just died to the world of the dead.
In the Wikipedia article devoted to the word "psychopomp" I read that psychopomps deities "are often associated with animals such as horses, seals, ravens, dogs, owls, sparrows, or the dolphins. "
Well we'll have to add the camel! I think in fact there is no more beautiful setting to achieve the world of the Blessed, the slow pace and quiet its not safe and swaying. 
I had recently informed the reopening of July 7 rooms of Greek sculpture in the Louvre (cf. http://cheminsantiques.blogspot.com/2010/06/dans-les-secrets-de-la-venus-de-milo.html ). Naturally, I did not take long to go there. I was delighted to see my favorites, among them three of Praxiteles (or attributed to, or copied from, I care about such subtleties, the enjoyment of contemplation), Apollo Sauroctonus (= killer lizard, in this case a lizard), Aphrodite and Artemis at the apple hanging up his coat: the gods young, sophisticated, graceful, carved in marble almost translucent flakes. Even the Venus de Milo seemed less than usual pitcher - is it different light (it is now in daylight near a window)? do you read the comments that have been allocated (in the famous blog)? - And I found his smile seductive beauty of a troubling ...
More importantly, I discovered a relief that I do not remember ever having seen. This is indeed soon fifteen years that I have a passion for camels, and about the same (and more) that I have traveled the halls of the Louvre. This is a bas-relief of a camel ridden by a girl with butterfly wings:
The legend does heighten the mystery
"Votive relief (?):
Psyche on a camel
second century av. JC
Alexandria Troas (Turkey)
Marble
function as the interpretation of this relief is not certain. Psyche with butterfly wings mounted on a camel could symbolize the voyage of the soul toward the world of the Blessed. "
In Greek, the soul is called "psyche" and is often personified as a young girl, especially in the beautiful story of Apuleius tells the story of Eros (Love) and Psyche, but this story is after four centuries to our relief, and there is also no mention of a trip by camel (the narrator is an ass, but that's another story!).
In Greek mythology, the epithet "psychopomp '(=' conductor of souls") was often attributed to the god Hermes, when its function is to conduct the souls of those who have just died to the world of the dead.
In the Wikipedia article devoted to the word "psychopomp" I read that psychopomps deities "are often associated with animals such as horses, seals, ravens, dogs, owls, sparrows, or the dolphins. "
Well we'll have to add the camel! I think in fact there is no more beautiful setting to achieve the world of the Blessed, the slow pace and quiet its not safe and swaying.
Friday, July 9, 2010
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Mythology sauce U.S.
I recently read the first volume in a series for Youth (which also inspired a film released this year that I have not seen): these are the adventures of Percy Jackson, American author Rick Riordan. The premise is delicious: the gods of Greek mythology still exist and they continue to flirt with deadly and cause demigods, and the story follows these demi-gods, today's teens States United, including one, Percy (actually Perseus) Jackson, son of Poseidon.
I must confess: I can not find this book well written frankly (and again, not very well translated either: one feels Anglicisms) or well built (I always guessed this would happen at least three chapters before the characters: in the long run it's a bit boring!), but ... it is really very funny. Even if I do not think I will have the courage to get into the following volumes of the series, I really enjoyed reading this first volume.
Thus, the hero is, like many teenagers today, dyslexic and hyperactive. The reason is simple: the demigods are programmed to read ancient Greek (hence dyslexia!) And to participate in the battles on the ground (hence hyperactivity!). Reassuring, not to say that all our young dyslexic or hyperactive probably hiding prestigious ancestry!
Other gems: the Gorgon Medusa is a store of garden gnomes (who are actually the people she was petrified!) And Procrustes holds a mattress store water (and strongly encourages its customers to try his mattress, and then adjust their size (customers , no mattresses!)
Finally, one of the passages that made me laugh the most, but in the second degree, this time because I did not expect to find in a book for youth and Greek mythology this trait of mind in which many Americans believe their nation is the center of the world. One character says very seriously that the palace of Mount Olympus has moved in history to be always "With the heart of the West" (should we explain what this expression, and also the "West", moreover, because the Greek gods, are more Oriental than Rick Riordan seems believe it!): first in Greece, he then moved to Rome, then in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, England and now he is in New York over the Empire State Building, because "at present, the United States is the spearhead of the West" ...
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