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According to ancient Greek myth and legend, a man named Tereus was once the ruler of a powerful Thracian kingdom. He was a mighty warrior, said to have been a demigod son of the war god, Ares. As reckoned by the ancient storytellers, Tereus predated many of the most famous Greek figures and events; for [...]
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Let us finally return to the question we originally posed at the start of this introduction: is the Epic Cycle, as recoverable by fragments and the (incomplete) summary of Proclus, worth studying today? We have already seen how Aristotle and the Alexandrian critics perceived that the poets of the Cycle were not only different from,...
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My book draft contains large passages on the statuary of Constantinople. As I scribbled them up I realised that few - unless they specialise in ancient Greek art - know any of the names of the great sculptors and artists. At best, they have heard a few famous names such as the Aphrodite of Cnidus or the Apollo Belvedere, perhaps Lysippus' name has even crossed their lips at a prestigious museum, but few can recite these artistic titans in the same way as the canon of western painters. This is a
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