Some of our Bacchic Martyrs
Akoites ‘All round the ship they leapt in showers of splashing spray. Time after time they surfaced and fell back into the sea, playing like dancers, frolicking about in fun, wide nostrils taking in...
View ArticleFor further study: the Bacchic Martyrs of Southern Italy
Clifford Ando, The Rites of Others https://www.academia.edu/24715885/The_rites_of_others Fiachra Mac Góráin, Virgil’s Bacchus and the Roman Republic...
View ArticleSupper for the Feasting Heroes
Make a proper Italian feast and set a place for them. It doesn’t matter if it’s modern Italian dishes they never would have eaten – it just has to be Italian. Listen to Italian music or watch an...
View ArticleRecommended movies for the Bacchic Martyrs
V for Vendetta dir. James McTeigue and Fellini Satyricon and The Last Shift dir. Anthony DiBlasi
View ArticleSeven Songs for the Bacchic Martyrs of Southern Italy
Gardzienice, Euoi Bakchai https://youtu.be/KR_SCOxWmas Ancient Roman Music, Synaulia I https://youtu.be/uJLXyBzMci0 Ancient Roman Music, Synaulia II https://youtu.be/13_kRntszO4 Spaccanapoli, Vesuvio...
View Article#bacchiclivesmatter
I suppose you could substitute Greek for the supper, but why would you when Italian is obviously far superior? I’m just having fun with some triggered YSEEs on Twitter. Both cuisines are yummy, and...
View ArticleHoney
Day I. To Ariadne, Sleeping Beauty Hail to you bull–betrothed Maiden of Knossos, Ariadne the Sleeping Beauty who was coaxed back to life when her green Master lifted the noose from her oddly–angled...
View ArticleHappy anniversary House of Vines
According to WordPress, as of today I’ve been blogging here at the House of Vines for a full decade. (Which means Nysa Press is almost as old.) I was at Livejournal for a number of years before that...
View ArticleGo see The Joker
Talking with a friend, I said the following: I saw it Monday, and we had the theater to ourselves. Every part of this movie is perfection – the direction, the cinematography, the music, and especially...
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Learn to internet, kiddies
Some folks are complaining because I periodically scrub the content from my blog, particularly when I am about to start a new creative project. Contrary to their assertions I am not trying to hide...
View ArticleBlast from a past Anthesteria
Dionysos rests his soft hand on the large black wheel of the ox-drawn carriage Ikarios has packed full of pine-pitch smeared kegs of fresh wine which miraculously sprang up outside his home. When the...
View Articlepainful memories
“The cracks are how the light gets through.” His long fingers stroked the delicate threading, like a lover or a brother tracing the sharp line of a cheek, preserving the memory of it for future days....
View Articlechoices
Physkoa sat opposite her God wearing a gown of pure white linen, a black belt round her curvy hips and a red blindfold covering her wide, cowlike eyes. He cupped a bowl of wine in his hands, and...
View ArticleCircles, etc.
When first he came, there were seabirds circling overhead and a chorus of frogs in the bushes, evergreens and fields of flowers. But it has been a long journey, deep in the swamp. Now he is alone,...
View ArticleI forget to forget
As he fades in and out of consciousness, he glances up into her eyes like pools, frigid and depthless, her face large, dark, pocked with crude cut features, nose like flint daggerhead, cheeks like the...
View ArticleThe part they don’t often tell
They say that Kadmos, dragon-slayer, when he saw his daughter’s womb swell with divine fruit, believed her not and locked her away in a tower with only a loom to pass the hours. She wove her coiled...
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