Centaurs descend from King Ixion, who killed his father-in-law and, by the will of Zeus, lay with a cloud in the likeness of Hera, whence the centaurs were born. So a scene of acquaintance without nude selfies is doubly allegorical
Endocannibalism is the scientific name for the consumption of the remains of deceased members of one's own social group or family. The Yanomami of the Amazon add the ashes of a dead relative's bones to banana soup and eat it so that the spirit of the
Edvard Munch's painting Summer Night on the Beach, executed in 1902, is a profound immersion in the atmosphere of Scandinavian melancholy. The canvas shows a deserted shore at Åsgårdstrand, the place where the artist spent his summer months and found inspiration for his most emotional works. Instead of
Underwater archaeologists have raised from the bed of the Eastern Harbour of Alexandria a bronze signet ring bearing an image of the Lighthouse of Alexandria. It was found at the site of the sunken island of Antirhodos. The owner of the ring would press the image into wax or soft
I have been reading how a young British authoress recognised herself in the heroine of the film "Amélie". She was, so we are told, diagnosed with "autism" in her early twenties, although her parents had suspected it since childhood, because she had no friends and could