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Troy

Paintings of William Shakespeare’s Plays 32: Troilus and Cressida

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One of King Priam’s sons falls in love with a Trojan woman late in the Trojan War. When Hector is about to duel with Achilles, what could possibly go wrong?

January 23, 2023 General, Life, Painting

A History of Rome in Paintings: 2 Etruscans

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Were they descended from survivors of the city of Troy, or perhaps they were Greeks? Did the Romans welcome or exterminate them?

August 23, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Pride and Petulance: How one woman almost spared Troy

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The anger of Achilles almost brought the Greek war against Troy to a grinding halt. But is Homer’s account fair, or was there more to it?

April 16, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Spouse-swapping, matricide, and Harry Potter

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Betrothed to Orestes, Hermione was forcibly removed and given to Pyrrhus. Later, Orestes murdered his mother. So why does Hermione appear in Harry Potter?

April 9, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

The Over-Exposed Warrior, the Suicide Pact, and the Almond Tree

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The Pre-Raphaelites lived intense and passionate lives. For Edward Burne-Jones, 1869 and 1870 were almost disastrous, when both art and life became too controversial.

March 19, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

President’s Park, the Titanic, and a Name on a Tree: The story of Oenone

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How many in the White House know the story of the memorial fountain just opposite – of Butt and Millet, Tennyson, and Oenone?

March 12, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Infanticide: Astyanax and making of myth

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Exploring different verbal and visual accounts of the story of the murder of Astyanax during the fall of Troy.

February 5, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

The Story in Paintings: Wiertz’s weird tales

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Death, doctored oil paint, and the stuff of nightmares: images from near the European Parliament.

November 6, 2016 General, Painting

Into the Light: Enrique Simonet, Death and the countryside, after 1900

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After 1900, he painted more landscapes, first of Morocco, then of the Spanish countryside.

August 10, 2016 General, Painting

The Story in Paintings: genocide and an Etruscan tomb

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Isn’t it odd to have paintings of gruesome deaths and murder of Trojan captives in your family tomb? A mystery unravelled.

May 28, 2016 General, Painting
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