Early on in Homer's Odyssey, the maiden princess of the seafaring peoples is called by the goddess to go and bathe on the beach and wash clothes with her servants. This is understood both by the goddess and by her parents to have some connection with her impending marriage. What is this connectio...

Gabriela Mistral's poem Ronda de los colores contains the following stanza: El amarillo se viene grande y lleno de fervor y le abren paso todos como viendo a Agamenón. Literally translated, this means the following: Yellow is coming big and full of fervour and everyone makes way for it as if s...

The nature of The Glass Bead Game is never precisely revealed in the novel, but there are strong hints that it's more a kind of academic excercise than a "game" as the word is commonly understood: a methodology for approaching the deconstruction of art and knowledge and recombining it in new and ...