by phillipw | Apr 15, 2020 | AR, ID
Watered Down Wine and Esthetics “Gretchen Reydams-Shils (“Myth and Poetry in the Timaeus”) deals with Socrates’ puzzling remark that his description of an ideal state was like a painting.” ~ http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/plato-and-the-poets/ Socrates’...
by phillipw | Apr 15, 2020 | AR, PL, PO
Widescreen, 3D, Surround Sound Buttered Popcorn and Icy Coca-Cola® “It follows from the fact that poets do not have knowledge of that about which they speak, but aim to seem as though they do, and some listeners do not realize that poets lack knowledge.” ~...
by phillipw | Apr 15, 2020 | AR
Oracular, or Delphi at its Worst* In Homer’s time, no word existed for Art. Praxiteles and Sappho had no term For it. The Greeks had not even the spore Of such a word, so Plato spoke no firm Ideals about that thing which we call art. He had too much, perhaps, to say...
by phillipw | Apr 14, 2020 | AR, CO, PA
A Long, Long Way from classical Greece at the Bottom of the Indian Ocean I’m curious about what women peek At as the men fixate on tits. Do gals Examine buttocks and their swollen, sleek Bronze dullness? Are women’s, visual pals The bulging abs or maybe hulking...
by phillipw | Mar 30, 2020 | AN, AR, GR
Broad Marble Guidance Appropriating what we want from Greece Of centuries long, long past, we take the things We find uplifting. Statues white as peace Are chosen. Hermes lifts us up with wings That grow from swiftest feet. His beauty speeds Us up tabove...
by phillipw | Mar 29, 2020 | AR
Trinkets When artefacts are placed in galleries, Museums, or the other places where They linger, what cultured calories Exactly do we get from them? The spare Particulars we have about them tease Us more than tell us fully what we want. They are like...
