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tomcasagranda
RIP Sir William.
His son Jacob is a top guy, and a very good Latinist.
While the butterfly wheel metaphor comes from Alexander Pope, I wonder if any Stones fan, who is also a classics graduate, knows that there is an actual Pompeian mosaic of a skull suspended upon a butterfly on a wheel. It can be found in a museum in Naples
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tomcasagranda
I wonder if any Stones fan, who is also a classics graduate....
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rebelrebel
RIP William Rees-Mogg - God bless him.
With reference to the title of the editorial could you explain the metaphor and enlighten me on something I have wondered about for years, please and thank you?Quote
tomcasagranda
RIP Sir William.
His son Jacob is a top guy, and a very good Latinist.
While the butterfly wheel metaphor comes from Alexander Pope, I wonder if any Stones fan, who is also a classics graduate, knows that there is an actual Pompeian mosaic of a skull suspended upon a butterfly on a wheel. It can be found in a museum in Naples
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proudmary
he took a libertarian view of ethical and social issues which turned out to be one of the constituents, though only one, of Thatcherism. It was not the soft-left Beatles but the libertarian Rolling Stones who best predicted the Anglo-American ideology of the 1980s. Mick Jagger was a Thatcherite before Thatcherism had been invented. Specifically, I remember being struck by the fact that Jagger used the classic John Stuart Mill On Liberty argument: that you are entitled to do anything which does not affect somebody else adversely.
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rebelrebel
RIP William Rees-Mogg - God bless him.
With reference to the title of the editorial could you explain the metaphor and enlighten me on something I have wondered about for years, please and thank you?Quote
tomcasagranda
RIP Sir William.
His son Jacob is a top guy, and a very good Latinist.
While the butterfly wheel metaphor comes from Alexander Pope, I wonder if any Stones fan, who is also a classics graduate, knows that there is an actual Pompeian mosaic of a skull suspended upon a butterfly on a wheel. It can be found in a museum in Naples
Let Sporus tremble — "What? that thing of silk,
Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk?
Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?
Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel?"
The above is the exact quote from Alexander Pope's Epistle to Dr John Arbuthnot. Some background is required as to whom Sporus was. Within the sense of the Epistle, it is a reference to Lord Hervey (or Harvey), who was a notoriously effeminate figure in Pope's time.
Sporus also was, back in 2nd century AD, a youth who became a favourite of the Roman Emperor Nero. There was a story that Nero attempted to castrate Sporus to make him more female, which appears in Suetonius' Twelve Caesars.
The wheel refers to the Medieval torture implement, also known as the Catherine Wheel, used by the Inquisition inter alia. A butterfly placed upon a wheel suggests a wholly disproportionate punishment in relation to a trivial crime.
The Epistle to Arbuthnot also has the first use of the expression to "Damn with faint praise", and also shows why Pope decided to write satire. There's also a reference to the Dunciad, a previous satire by Pope.
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rebelrebel
RIP William Rees-Mogg - God bless him.
With reference to the title of the editorial could you explain the metaphor and enlighten me on something I have wondered about for years, please and thank you?Quote
tomcasagranda
RIP Sir William.
His son Jacob is a top guy, and a very good Latinist.
While the butterfly wheel metaphor comes from Alexander Pope, I wonder if any Stones fan, who is also a classics graduate, knows that there is an actual Pompeian mosaic of a skull suspended upon a butterfly on a wheel. It can be found in a museum in Naples
Let Sporus tremble — "What? that thing of silk,
Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk?
Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?
Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel?"
The above is the exact quote from Alexander Pope's Epistle to Dr John Arbuthnot. Some background is required as to whom Sporus was. Within the sense of the Epistle, it is a reference to Lord Hervey (or Harvey), who was a notoriously effeminate figure in Pope's time.
Sporus also was, back in 2nd century AD, a youth who became a favourite of the Roman Emperor Nero. There was a story that Nero attempted to castrate Sporus to make him more female, which appears in Suetonius' Twelve Caesars.
The wheel refers to the Medieval torture implement, also known as the Catherine Wheel, used by the Inquisition inter alia. A butterfly placed upon a wheel suggests a wholly disproportionate punishment in relation to a trivial crime.
The Epistle to Arbuthnot also has the first use of the expression to "Damn with faint praise", and also shows why Pope decided to write satire. There's also a reference to the Dunciad, a previous satire by Pope.
A very scholarly set of responses here tomcasagranda. You're not, by any chance. a history or English lecturer are you?
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summa cum laude
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tomcasagranda
summa cum laude
Hey... wash your mouth out with soap.
No need for that dirty talk.
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rebelrebel
RIP William Rees-Mogg - God bless him.
With reference to the title of the editorial could you explain the metaphor and enlighten me on something I have wondered about for years, please and thank you?Quote
tomcasagranda
RIP Sir William.
His son Jacob is a top guy, and a very good Latinist.
While the butterfly wheel metaphor comes from Alexander Pope, I wonder if any Stones fan, who is also a classics graduate, knows that there is an actual Pompeian mosaic of a skull suspended upon a butterfly on a wheel. It can be found in a museum in Naples
Let Sporus tremble — "What? that thing of silk,
Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk?
Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?
Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel?"
The above is the exact quote from Alexander Pope's Epistle to Dr John Arbuthnot. Some background is required as to whom Sporus was. Within the sense of the Epistle, it is a reference to Lord Hervey (or Harvey), who was a notoriously effeminate figure in Pope's time.
Sporus also was, back in 2nd century AD, a youth who became a favourite of the Roman Emperor Nero. There was a story that Nero attempted to castrate Sporus to make him more female, which appears in Suetonius' Twelve Caesars.
The wheel refers to the Medieval torture implement, also known as the Catherine Wheel, used by the Inquisition inter alia. A butterfly placed upon a wheel suggests a wholly disproportionate punishment in relation to a trivial crime.
The Epistle to Arbuthnot also has the first use of the expression to "Damn with faint praise", and also shows why Pope decided to write satire. There's also a reference to the Dunciad, a previous satire by Pope.
A very scholarly set of responses here tomcasagranda. You're not, by any chance. a history or English lecturer are you?
Silver Dagger, a few background facts about me.
I am neither a history, nor English lecturer. I hold a first class degree (summa cum laude) in Classics from Reading University. I also hold a Masters in the Classical Tradition, too from Reading University, and am equally passionate about music, as I am about literature and history.
Classics is the study of ancient Latin and Greek history and literature. I majored in Latin (Roman) literature, and am familiar with Pompeii. Hence why I was able to describe "Memento Mori". I also did my dissertation on Roman Satire, and am exceedingly familiar with Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, and how they were influenced by Juvenal and Horace.
I am, unfortunately, unemployed, or is it unemployable, as I can talk at length about books, music, culture, but am unable to talk my way into a job. I am intelligent, but nobody wants a brain-box, who is a bit of a cold fish.
So there you go: a well-read, intelligent unemployable redundant graduate, who's excitement still rises at books and art.