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Meditation on desire

Popular culture enjoins us to follow our desires, to pursue our dreams. But is it sufficient? This can be considered exteriorly and interiorly.   Steve Latham   Exteriorly, we must ask: Do we really want what we want? It is a commonplace observation that capitalism creates desires, for objects and […]

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Misrepresenting women in Greek mythology

The Amazons, an all-female, barbarian tribe of mythological warriors, fascinated the ancient Greeks. Ubiquitous in art –only representations of Heracles appear more often on vase paintings– they appear battling with Greeks in sculpted scenes on classical temples.   Sean Sheehan   Natalie Haynes, in “Pandora’s jar”, wonders why a male-dominated […]