Sublime

The achievements of Athens in the time of Pericles are perhaps the most astonishing thing in all history. Until that time, Athens had lagged behind many other Greek cities; neither in art nor in literature had it produced any great man (except Solon, who was primarily a lawgiver). Suddenly, under the stimulus of victory and wealth and the need of r

In a society that has endured something like total moral collapse, its monks had somehow become the single universally acceptable target of moral outrage. Every right-thinking Greek citizen is still furious with them and those who helped them, and yet no one knows exactly what they did, or why.

Rimbaud

Initially, pornography did not primarily name a set of visual images. It named a type of narrative, set in brothels.65 Called both the “father of pornography” and the “father of journalism,” Pierre Aretino (1492–1556) trafficked in this written genre,