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Zeus

Zeus was the proud, imposing, and irritable supreme god of the ancient Greeks. Beginning around 700 B.C., stories by Homer and other Greek poets described the lives of powerful gods who involved…

Walt Whitman: I Am He That Aches with Love

I Am He That Aches with LoveI am he that aches with amorous love; Does the earth gravitate? does not all matter, aching, attract all matter? So the body of me to all I meet or know.

Ovid

Name at birth: Publius Ovidius NasoOne of the great poets of antiquity, Ovid was the author of Metamorphoses, a masterpiece on Greek and Roman myths. What Virgil was to epic poetry, Ovid was to…

9. Pretenders

Viva El AmorWarner Brothers The group's first new studio set since 1994's Last of the Independents is a rock-solid return to form, loaded with first-rate fare such as the harp-wailing taunt “…

Your Friends and Neighbors

PolyGram Video; rental pricingFeature; RDirector:Neil LaButeCast:Jason Patric, Catherine Keener, Ben Stiller and Aaron Eckland LaBute's switchblade-sharp follow-up to In the Company of Men…

Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith's first novel, Strangers on a Train (1950) was made into a successful film by Alfred Hitchcock, but she's also famous for her creation of Tom Ripley, the charming and amoral…

Walt Whitman: To the Garden the World

To the Garden the WorldTo the garden the world anew ascending, Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding, The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and being, Curious here behold my…

Walt Whitman: The Dalliance of the Eagles

The Dalliance of the EaglesSkirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles, The rushing amorous contact high in space…

Keisha Castle-Hughes

Keisha Castle-Hughes was the youngest person ever nominated for a best actress Oscar after her performance in the 2003 film Whale Rider. (The Oscar went to Charlize Theron instead, for the movie…