Apollo’s Fire: Chapter 5
The small (75 cm) Auxerre Goddess is a rare example of a female figure in the Daedalic style. Originally from …
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The Gaze That Slays
This Friday’s post has been reserved for a moment of pure fangirl delight. A sulky, sexy 37-year old Ciarán Hinds as Frank Echlin …
Birthday Loot
When you turn fifty, desperate measures are called for. Which means a shopping spree. Which means books, movies and food. The …
Apollo’s Fire: Chapter 4
The Getty kouros, purchased for nine million dollars in 1985, is believed by many to be a forgery. According to …
Autumn Longingly Looks Back
Sometimes I assemble odd meals from whatever is in the fridge. This was one such meal a few months ago, …
Gervasi Vineyards
Yes, we make wine in Ohio. But usually I think of the better-quality wineries as the ones in the northeast, on …
Apollo’s Fire: Chapter 3
Many Archaic statues served as gravestones. There’s something profoundly sad about the charming figures of youths called kouroi, because these were used …
In the Garden
Every garden is a place of magic. But some gardens feel like Eden. I’ve always wanted to see Victoria, the …
Naughty Bits in Beowulf (2007)
I didn’t see Beowulf in a cinema, so I missed out on the eye-popping spectacle of a 3-D naked Angelina Jolie, …
Apollo’s Fire: Chapter 2
The Tenea kouros (youth) was sculpted around 560 BCE and originally served as a grave marker. He has the enigmatic …
Linnet Moss 