Homer

Musing About Muses (Part 1)

Irene Tanner | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Apollo, Muses, Homer, Rowlings, Terpsichore, Music, Poetry, Song, Mythology, Intuition, Dance, Olympians, Shakespeare, Museum, Wisdom, Healthy Living News

Do you realize that we all have an intuitive muse available to us? All we have to do is extend an invitation.

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Homer's Epic Tale Condensed Into 100 Minutes

AP | By JENNIFER FARRAR | Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Broadway, Theater, An Iliad, An Iliad Play, An Iliad Off Broadway, Homer Iliad, Iliad, Homer, The Iliad, Culture News

NEW YORK -- Greek poet Homer's 8th-century B.C. epic, "The Iliad," told the story of the mythical 10-year Trojan War, featuring two warrior heroes, th...

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Guy Maddin On His Latest Film, "Keyhole"

artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Toronto, My Winnipeg, Homer's the Oydessy, Keyhole, Toronto International Film Festival, Winnipeg, The Oydessy, Homer, Jason Patrick, University of Manitoba, Keyhole Film, Guy Maddin, Film, Arts News

TORONTO — Not even the director Guy Maddin is certain how to classify a Guy Maddin movie. The Winnipeg-born filmmaker is known for his experimental,...

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WATCH: Sassy Gay Friend Goes Greek

Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: The Odyssey, Homosexuality, Video, Gay Friend, Greek Mythology, Homer, Mythology, Gay, Myths, Sassy Gay Friend, Comedy News

Sassy Gay Friend is back, and this time he's coming to the rescue of Odysseus from Homer's "The Odyssey." It seems that the book could have been a who...

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PHOTOS: 10 Writers’ Unruly, Manly Manes

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Nadeem Aslam, Jerzy Kosinski, Writers, Neil Gaiman, Jack Kerouac, Crazy Hair, Homer, Martin Amis, David Foster Wallace, Bernard-Henri Levy, Malcolm Gladwell, Frederick Douglass, Books News

We were a little bit late in reading Jorian Polis Schutz’s analysis of manly manes in the last issue of Cabinet, titled “Barbers and Barbarians,...

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All Things Sheening: Reading Charlie Sheen to Find Meaning in a Secular Age

Urizenus Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charlie Sheen, Nihilism, Homer, Hubert Dreyfus, Parody, Rebecca Black, Peter Ludlow, Sean Kelly, Winning, Charlie Sheen Winning, Books News

Sheen is no mere Greek hero. Greek heroes were (usually) deferential to their gods and previous heroes. Charlie Sheen shows us that winning means we must destroy our idols by out-winning them.

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Great Art Inspired by Homer and Cartoons

Edward Goldman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: La Art, Art, Dining, Roy Lichtenstein, Homer, Mythology, La Around Town, Art Exhibitions, Arts News

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Better Book Titles For Greek Classics: What 'The Odyssey' SHOULD Have Been Titled

Dan Wilbur | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greek Classics, Homer, Virgil, Plato, The Odyssey, Sophocles, Euripedes, Slidepollajax, Aenid, Symposium, Oedipus the King, Epic of Gilgamesh, Medea, The Iliad, Antigone, Books News

Whether you dabbled in Euripides during college, or spend hours each day reciting Homer in the original Greek, these new titles will trim the fat and reveal whole stories in a single image!

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Favorite Rereads: What Do You Come Back To Time And Time Again? (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: The Odyssey, 1984, Ernest Hemingway, Books We Love, George Orwell, Homer, Ray Bradbury, Gone With the Wind, Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Middlesex, Harry Potter, Slidepollajax, To Kill a Mockingbird, Rereads, Jeffrey Eugenides, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

Author François Mauriac once said, "Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are' is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what ...

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'Inception' Is Dead Wrong: Waking Is Much Riskier Than Dreaming!

Anne Hill | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Inception, Dreams, Myths, Iliad, Movies, Homer, Archetypes, Symbols, Sarah Palin, Mama Grizzlies, Sleep, Healthy Living News

To overcome our nightmares, we need to understand and confront the fear in the dream. The only antidote to deceptions being planted in our waking minds is to not accept them at face value.

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Palin's Homer Moment: Celebrity Sarah Confronted by Citizen (WATCH)

Shannyn Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Billy Sullivan, Palin Homer Worst Governor, 2nd Amendment, Discovery Channel, Homer, Sarah Palin, Kathleen Gustafson, Sarah Palin Homer Alaska, Shannyn Moore, Palin Homer, Sarah Palin's Alaska, Constitution, Private Security, Palin, Protesters, Sarah Palin Homer, Palin Homer Teacher, Politics News

For someone who doesn't hold elected office and denies being a celebrity, Sarah Palin may want to get a "Constitutional Handler".

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An Academic Outpost of Heaven

Tom Morris | Posted 05.25.2011

There's a particular alternate reality experience that I highly recommend. It happens to take place at an academic outpost of heaven. Forty five minu...

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Homeric Hospitality in the South

Michael Koenigs | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Couch-Surfing, American South, Road Trip, Jack Kerouac, Homer, Jesuit, Cheap Travel, Couchsurfing, Travel, Facebook, Healthy Living News

The United States is now the "Couch Surfing" capital of the world with nearly 400,000 people opening their homes to random travelers on Couchsurfing.org.

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Singing Of The GOP Sirens, Joe... Joe... Joe...

Mary Ann West | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Homer, John McCain, Public Option, Freedomworks, Homeland Security, Wwwsourcewatchorg, Right Principles PAC, Odyssey, Factcheck.org, Benedict Arnold, Ned Lamont, Sirens, Connecticut, Joe Lieberman, myleftnutmeg.org, 60 Plus, US Chamber of Commerce, Politics News

As an Epic Fail saga, Joe Lieberman is basking in the fading limelight that is diminishing with time. What will he come up with next to flip those who used to support him as he continues this mad journey?

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7 Books We Lost to History That Would Have Changed the World

cracked.com | Jacopo della Quercia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gospels, Homer, Iliad, The Bible, House of Wisdom, Lost Books, Plato, The Gospel of Eve, Books, The Book of the Wars of the Lord, God, Grand Library of Baghdad, Odyssey, Archimedes, Books News

The vast majority of the knowledge humans have assembled over the centuries, has been lost. The world's geniuses either kept their revelations to them...

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On Sloth And Other Virtues

Amy Hertz | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: The Odyssey, Sloth, Arianna's Reading, Homer, Slow Movement, Donald Trump, Meditation, Buddhism, Slow, Books News

This month, we're celebrating Carl Honore's In Praise of Slowness and throughout The Huffington Post you'll have a chance to see how others are embracing the Slow Movement, of which Carl is the godfather.

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How Stories Save Us

Pam Allyn | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Parenting, Madeline, Kids, Children's Books, Children, Homer, Goodnight Moon, Books, Eloise, The Odyssey, Story Time, Story Telling, Where the Wild Things Are, Stories, Reading, Healthy Living News

Here is the longing inside all of us: that we are fearless enough to embark upon those adventures, but that as we go we are inspired and propelled by a sense of home waiting for us at the other end.

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"Sing to Me of The Man..."

Lapham's Quarterly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Fagles, Swimming, Baltimore Sun, Odyssey, Beijing Olympics, Homer, Michael Phelps, Olympics, Media News

With the swimming competition of the Beijing Olympics completed, the game of finding an athlete comparable to 14-time gold medalist can begin.

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