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  • ‘Beware of the ninnies!’ – Thoughts on ballet history

    Sebastian Cody explores the challenges of ballet historiography, emphasising the need for rigorous scholarship amidst widespread inaccuracies

    November 14, 2024
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Venus Voluptas: The Desire of Gods and Men

Thomas Nail writes about Venus as the desire of gods and men in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura. She is not only the external object of desire of the other gods and of men; she is the desire itself.
  • Naomi Farmer
  • August 14, 2018
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