Why Artemisia?

Posted on Thu 27 June 2019 in misc

Why the title? Four aspects of Artemisia appealed to me. In relation to the blog element in particular, I was thinking of Lucretius' well-known image of honey and wormwood in the proem to Book Four of \emph{De Rerum Nature}. Poetry, he says, is the honey that disguises the bitter …

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