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...saturnalian revelry, and comic twists of fate that they beg for modernization. Claiming such undertakings to be bastardizations, staid classicists might curse the lack of inspiration, the sterility of these transformations. "Myths," said Camus, "are made for the imagination to breathe life into them." John Gardner's epic poem, Jason amd Medeia shows that the modern imagination, violently panting while it makes love to mythology, is still very potent indeed...
...poem, divided into 24 parts, is a cumulative free-translation/interpretation of the full mythic cycle of Jason and the Golden Fleece. Taking as its sources the Argonautica of Apollonios Rhodios and Euripides's Medeia, its story goes as follows: Jason, feared by his uncle, Pelias, king of Iolcus, because an oracle has said Jason will kill him, is sent to fetch the Golden Fleece in the eastern land of Kolchis. Pelias has promised Jason the kingdom--if he can return. Jason reaches Kolchis and finds the Fleece well protected by Aeetes, king of Kolchis. But Medeia, the sorceress princess...
...Children. From the soap box, let's see why Mona killed Jason on Friday. Big happenings in Pine Valley. Channel...
Because Chickering-Clay's husband. Jason W. Clay '73, has a Knox Fellowship to study in England next year, the London office will cost the University less than $5000. Fisher said...
...Crisis, which describes his work with sharecroppers, migrant workers and ghetto children, and Welty with her short novel The Optimist's Daughter. Two younger writers were also among the prizewinners: Frances FitzGerald, 32, for Fire in the Lake, a study of American involvement in Viet Nam, and Jason Miller, 34, for his play about a middle-aged basketball team, That Championship Season...