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Thursday, March 23, 2017

Review: ‘A World of Emotions’ in Greek Art Unmasks the Stony Faces

The first line of one of the oldest poems in Western literature, Homer’s “Iliad,” begins with the ancient Greek word for anger, or superanger: wrath. And from that emotion an entire epic driven by hatred, hubris, lust, grief and violence spins out.


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