While it may currently be prudent to Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds there is still much splendor to the ancient culture of yore. A few weeks back I assigned my Studio on Technology class Albert J. Bergesen’s reading of Greek sculpture and European painting applied to the form language of 20th century—sneakers.
Hot on the heels Nietzsche’s Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, I devoured Edith Hamilton’s The Greek Way. Ambling through the stacks at Pratt, I picked up Heidegger’s Early Greek Thinking; ordered The Logos of Heraclitus; started Schiller’s On the Aesthetic Education of Man. Admittedly, Schiller’s object is not explicitly Greek, it is implicitly so. And so it’s only appropriate that the writhing Laocoön and His Sons, adorn the post above.
