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The Marriage Of Cadmus And Harmony
The Marriage Of Cadmus And Harmony | Roberto Calasso
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THE MARRIAGE OF CADMUS AND HARMONY is a book without any modern parallel. Forming an active link in a chain that reaches back through Ovid's METAMORPHOSES directly to Homer, Roberto Calasso's re-exploration of the fantastic fables and mysteries we may only think we know explodes the entire world of Greek mythology, pieces it back together, and presents it to us in a new, and astonishing, and utterly contempory way.
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Phoebus

Sharing the sacred communion of thighs

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OliviaCroom

Frankness, that first feature of the aristocratic ethic, becomes secularized with democracy into freedom of speech.

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OliviaCroom

The whole of Greece was strewn with the tombs of heroes, as was Egypt with cat cemeteries.

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cjcurtis

Every notion of progress is refuted by the existence of the Iliad.