Archive: February 2014 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Peter Armenti; (Year) 2014; (Month) February

The Capitol Building from the Catbird Seat – Pic of the Week

February 21, 2014

The following guest post is by Andrew Weber, a legislative information systems manager at the Library of Congress. It is cross posted on the Law Library’s blog, In Custodia Legis. Earlier this week, I made a trip to the attic of the Thomas Jefferson Building to see the Poetry and Literature Center of the Library …

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Olympic Promotional Ads Inspire through Poetry

February 7, 2014

Posted by: Peter Armenti

In Ancient Greece, the three poets best known for celebrating the Olympic Games were Simonides of Ceos, Bacchylides, and most famously Pindar, whose work I discussed in a July 2012 blog post on poetry and the Olympics. All three poets were known for a type of lyric ode known as epinicion (plural: epinicia), written in …

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Refined by: (Author) Peter Armenti; (Year) 2014; (Month) February