Tag archives for Aphrodite
HIP CLASSICS
The Greek Gods What if these deities were alive today? Of course I know they don’t exist, but they give us a rich language in which to describe experience. In…
Gods Alight at the Forum
Simone Witney reviews the latest Stains and Traces show at the Arts Forum, running until 1st ; Colm Toibin has spoken of Seamus Heaney’s “always crediting the miraculous” as a…
HIP CLASSICS: The Greek Gods
What if we imagined these deities alive today? I have a personal view that the polytheism of the Greeks gives us a useful language in which to look at experience.…
We Can Be Heroes
HIP CLASSICS by SIMONE WITNEY Homer’s Iliad translated by Stephen Mitchell, Audiobook read by Alfred Molina 'Rage’ is the first word of the Iliad and its theme. ‘Anger’, says Achilles ‘far…