Showing posts with label Circe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Circe. Show all posts

Saturday, March 23, 2024

Circe,















https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circe


 












https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103RB8















https://www.rct.uk/collection/publications/castiglione/circe















https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_W-6-37



there are some books, not many ...















https://archive.org/details/castiglione-lost-genius.-royal-collection-trust./mode/2up?view=theater



and there are poems, even in our lifetimes ...


















and as for music ... jun miyake's LILLIES OF THE VALLEY ... isn't about Circe ... but it's fluent rhythms and counterpoints suggest that feeling of being irresistably drawn towards a mystery ...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je0lFe0MHjU


of course, as the culture of humanity evolves, so the old myths may lose their relevance ... there are always new minds ready and willing to pillage the old myths for shoddy new variants ...