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Artist, AthenaOctober 4, 2021May 16, 2024

Rubens’ Minerva makes anybody a family-man

The British National Gallery’s painting of the month for October 2021 is an old favorite of mine, “Minerva Protects Pax from Mars (or, Peace and War)” (1629-1630). Having spent much of my weekend with my beautiful little granddaughters, contemplating the painting this morning takes me …

adaptation theory, Athena, student contributorsSeptember 2, 2021May 16, 2024

THE Athens of the South

The big question, the deep thought behind this post is this: What does it mean when a place like Nashville, TN claims to be “THE Athens of the South”? Granted, I have added the emphatic CAPS. Yet, this was the claim in the age of …