School of Suspicion

Tag: Prophets and Seers

Those who see what is coming and are believed or ignored: Tiresias, Cassandra, Jonah, Noah, Apollo’s oracle at Delphi, and the oracle Rebekah receives before her sons are born.

  • Cassandra and Jesus — Prophets of a Doomed City

    Cassandra and Jesus — Prophets of a Doomed City

    Apollo gave Cassandra true sight and took away belief. Jesus wept over a city that would not hear him. Aeschylus and the Gospels side by side, with Ovid’s Paris taking her fire for love, Josephus’s other Jesus crying woe on the walls, the Locrian girls sent to Troy for a thousand years and the lampstand…

  • Narcissus: Beauty Awakens

    Narcissus: Beauty Awakens

    Narcissus comes to the water thirsty. A reading of Ovid’s myth through Echo, Conon’s rejected lover Ameinias, the twin sister Pausanias records, Hegel on beauty, and the flower that keeps his name.