Tagged: Greece

Theater of War: Ancient Words, Modern Wounds

December 6, 2011 at 9:57 am

Theater of War participants and Columbia student veterans discuss a performance on the Columbia campus. Theater of War is an innovative project that presents readings of ancient Greek plays as a catalyst for town-hall discussions about the challenges faced by our soldiers and veterans. This unique stage production and panel discussion is designed to raise […]

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Analects of the Core: Thoreau on walls built of ruins

October 28, 2011 at 9:34 am

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins. – Henry David Thoreau

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Analects of the Core: Emerson on the Parthenon as a gem

October 27, 2011 at 9:59 am

Earth proudly wears the Parthenon as the best gem among her zone. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Six Quotes: Samons on Ancient Greece

October 27, 2011 at 9:51 am

“Triremes were built to kill. You can’t have fun on a trireme. You can’t water-ski behind one. You can’t hold an afternoon BBQ on one. You can’t do anything but kill on a trireme.” “Why did the Athenians beat the Persians? Because the Persians showed up to the wars with wicker shields. Wicker. The Persians […]

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Analects of the Core: Pericles on mighty monuments

October 26, 2011 at 12:33 pm

Mighty indeed are the marks and monuments we have left. Men of the future will wonder at us, as all men do today. – Pericles

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Six Quotes: Kleiner on the Acropolis

October 26, 2011 at 8:29 am

“When you go into the Acropolis, why are all the great buildings off to the left? In the archaic day there was the greatest temple erected right before you. This was the temple the Persians burned down and which prompted Pericles and the Athenians to rebuild.” “Despite the agony on the centaur’s face, the whole […]

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Analects of the Core: Hawthorne on the burden of the past

October 26, 2011 at 7:48 am

Yesterday I went out at about twelve, and visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart, wishing (Heaven forgive me!) that the Elgin marbles and the frieze of the Parthenon were […]

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Analects of the Core: Emerson on manners and early Greek art

October 25, 2011 at 11:18 am

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Analects of the Core: Mercouri on the Parthenon Marbles

October 24, 2011 at 10:08 am

In view of Prof. Fred Kleiner’s lecture this Tuesday on the art and politics of the Greek Acropolis, this week’s analects all concern the Athenian Parthenon. You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest symbol of excellence. They are a tribute […]

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