Word: herodotus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overwhelming that scholars have taken a while to turn to the lesser aesthetic achievements of the Old Kingdom, the 500 glorious years between about 2650 and 2150 B.C. when many of the iconic structures were erected. Until recently, in fact, archaeologists knew little more about this period than Herodotus...
What drives history? Facts? Or people's perception of the facts? Twenty-five centuries ago, Thucydides enlisted on the side of literal, close-focus truth. His older contemporary Herodotus took the more expansive view that people's self-images and folklore and even self-delusions are as important as the hard facts of history. Myths open windows upon fears, fantasies, possibilities. The old bipolar question always comes into play when Americans, black and white, approach the facts and myths of race...
...several officers who tried to "swarm" him, a relatively benign technique used to subdue a violent suspect. Nor did it show that after all that, King was charging directly at the officer who first whacked him with a baton. But the videotape became one of those vehicles of Herodotus, carrying at its core a mythic truth that fetched back centuries: white authority brutalizing a black...
...other hand, animated films have an infinite life cycle. "Snow White has sold 28 million copies, and it's a 60-year-old production," Jobs points out. "People don't read Herodotus or Homer to their kids anymore, but everybody watches movies. These are our myths today. Disney puts those myths into our culture, and hopefully Pixar will too. At Pixar we're just getting started, and it's very magical. It's like the computer industry was in the early days...
Literature and Arts C-14: "The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization," includes works by "Great Authors" Homer, Plato and Herodotus. Literature and Arts B-51, "First Nights: Five Performance Premieres," includes music by Beethoven and Stravinsky. Literature and Arts A-40, "Shakespeare: the Early Plays," or A-41, including the later plays, take care of The Bard...