mythology

Riding on a donkey became a hymn to Dionysian freedom: a symbol that in the realm of wine and ecstasy the last may become first, and that even the most scorned of creatures may find itself in the immediate presence of the god

My father, I think, was a man of the Achilles type. And perhaps the Odyssey helped him nevertheless to live through, in the manner of Odysseus, that long life full of hopeless journeys and difficult tasks which the Moirai had allotted to him.

I couldn’t see the Good Shepherd fresco, but I did learn how, when Nicaean Christians buried under his protection, a pagan citizen in the same necropolis related to death