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Ancient Light: Call Me By Your Name and the Greek Ideal
André Aciman’s novel, and Luca Guadagnino’s 2017 film, is saturated with ancient Greek art. They are not backdrop elements, but arguments. The crumbling statues in the Perlman villa garden, the Greco-Roman bronzes that Oliver and Dr. Pearlman are tasked with cataloguing, are objects symbolizing the film’s secret thesis. The pivotal scene makes this explicit. Elio’s…
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Lyric Opera of Chicago
The Lyric Opera of Chicago is one of the most premier opera companies in the United States, they bring world-class vocal performance and theatrical artistry to the city. Founded in 1954 primarily by Carol Fox, the United States first female opera impresario. Her goal was to shape the company’s vision of having world class European…
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Eros & Epithymia: Desire in Ancient Greek Art
Desire, for the ancient Greeks, was not a private tremor. It was a cosmic force older than the gods, indifferent to reason, and capable of unmaking civilizations. When Paris gazed upon Helen, when Achilles wept for Patroclus, when Sappho pressed her lyric longing into meter, they were all in the grip of something the Greeks…
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