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Reading visual art: 59 Aegis

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An attribute of the goddess Athena (Minerva), it consists of the image of the face of Medusa on a shield or breastplate.

June 7, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: 15 Escape from Circe

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She invited Odysseus and his crew to a feast, where she turned most of them into pigs. Odysseus avoids that fate, and later gets a prophecy from Tiresias.

June 5, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 58 Sickles

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A symbol of the harvest with Ceres, a weapon for Bacchantes, the sign of the Divine Reaper Saturn, used by Iris to cut locks of hair, and for cutting the cereal crop.

May 31, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: 14 Odysseus and Polyphemus

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Queen Penelope and their son Telemachus were awaiting the return of Odysseus, whose ships ended up off the island of the Cyclops.

May 29, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 57 Tridents and bidents

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Neptune’s trident has three tines, while Pluto’s is a bident with only two. Or it could be a pitchfork. How to read them in paintings.

May 25, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: 13 The Sack of Troy

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The Greeks destroy Troy, then sail away until caught in gales. Sheltering off Thrace Achilles ghost demands human sacrifice.

May 22, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: 12 Extinguishing the line

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The Greeks had three objectives: to extinguish the line of succession in the Trojan royal family; to raze the city to the ground; and to seize booty.

May 15, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 55 Lions

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In the Roman arena, with a runaway slave, sparing the life of Daniel, at the feet of St Jerome and St Rufina, and snoring gently on the rug.

May 10, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: 11 Paris killed and the Trojan Horse

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Ajax goes mad, then falls on his sword. The Greeks are told they need their master-archer and Achilles’ son, but still have to come up with a way of entering the city of Troy.

May 8, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: 10 The death of Achilles

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First, Achilles kills Penthesileia, an Amazon, whose great beauty fills him with remorse. Then come Memnon, who proves Achilles’ undoing by Paris’s arrow.

May 1, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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