"The stories that remain to us are already elaborations and accretions. In the ancient Greek and Roman world, stories were adapted and remade to serve the needs of the moment."
"Seen in this light, the modern appetite for working with (and maybe sometimes against) Greek myth is a part of a long continuum, rather than an innovation."
"Barker's choice, Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, came to the playwright not directly from a classical source, but indirectly through a winding lineage including Chaucer and Boccaccio."
"Ofili's paintings and drawings are, at the same time, deeply personal, infused with the landscapes and stories of the Caribbean, where he lives and works."
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