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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
Looking forward to reading it, and thank you for the preview.
Jeff Wrangler:
I guess I don't need to bother with the article about Claire McCaskill (Oct. 29). She lost. Which is too bad.
Jeff Wrangler:
I had a bit of a surprise at lunch today. I turned to the article "Acts of Conviction" (Jennifer Gonnerman, Oct. 29), only to discover that the subject is the district attorney of Philadelphia.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on October 23, 2018, 11:13:05 am ---Meanwhile, quixotically, I'm zooming ahead to the October 29 issue and this article on polychromy in ancient art, which references the giant statue of Athena that I saw at the Parthenon in Nashville, TN.
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I just finished that article over lunch today. I found it very interesting. I think the head on page 45 looks remarkably like Meryl Streep. I found the section on page 50 speculating about the dinner party in Pompeii with its "statues of nude homoerotic youths." and "slave boys that look just like those well-tanned bronzes" quite titillating.
--- Quote --- Did you know that parthenon means, "place of the maidens"?
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I did not know that precisely, but I seem to recall reading somewhere that "Athena Parthenos" means "Athena the Virgin," or something like that, since Athena was a virgin goddess.
Front-Ranger:
Yes, that was a lovely passage in the article. :D
There are a lot of school groups that tour the Parthenon in TN, and I'm sure they didn't want to have to explain the word virgin to kids, so they used the word maiden.
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