Classicism


Phèdre
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
The Iliad
Le Cid
Tartuffe
The Republic
The Odyssey
Glorious Exploits
Gulliver’s Travels
The Latinist
Lavinia
Don Juan
The Princesse de Clèves
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
Aryn Kyle
We would pay the bills. We would pretend to be high-class. This was compromise. This, I guessed, was business.
Aryn Kyle, The God of Animals

It is in this sense that Nietzsche is driven, against many explicit resolutions to the contrary, to be a No-sayer. For what the décadents who surround him are doing is to say No where they should be saying Yes, where they should be Dionysian; and what is leading them to this life-denying perversity, mostly of course unconsciously, is that they subscribe to a set of values that puts the central features of *this* world at a discount. Where they find suffering, they immediately look for someone to ...more
Michael Tanner, Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ

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