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Liminality as a Catalyst within Black Classicism
The liminality woven throughout ancient epic—from Ovid’s conception of Earth (a phenomenon brought by the translation between opposing...
Eunsu Lee
Jul 4, 20235 min read


The Ouroboros Occlusion: Centrifugality as Metaphor for Myth
The cyclicality inscribed about classical myth—a medium which simultaneously reconciles homogenous continuity and disembodied...
Eunsu Lee
Jul 4, 20235 min read


Apollonians and Dionysians of the Plautinopolis
Manic pixie dream girls, tortured artists, Mary Janes—within modern literature lie recurring archetypes which direct a character’s...
Eunsu Lee
May 29, 20225 min read


Surviving Works of Ancient Rome: A Sulpician Analysis
Pen to paper, stylus to tablet — throughout history, surviving literature has framed the archival narrative of civilization through a...
Eunsu Lee
May 29, 20225 min read


Νερό: An Analysis of Water in Homer's Iliad
Greece, with her abundance of isles and sweeping shorelines, is a country whose history is inextricably intertwined with its surrounding...
Eunsu Lee
Dec 21, 20212 min read


The Apollonian-Dionysian Dichotomy: Opposing Nietzschean Dualisms
Juxtaposition within a character’s state of being—seemingly-contradictory dualisms which occupy one’s conscience—creates simultaneous...
Eunsu Lee
Dec 21, 20214 min read
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