Reading a very interesting book, Hesiod's Cosmos by Jenny Strauss Clay. It's a reading of the Theogony and Works and Days as complementary works--even a diptych of sorts--that together present (so Clay argues) a coherent and unified theological schema, encompassing the story of how Zeus' victory and accession to the throne of the gods ended generations of cosmic instability, as well as how relations between gods and mortals are structured under his rule. I'm honestly unsure whether I accept Clay's central thesis, but she makes a strong case for it, and her command of past scholarship is without peer.

Hesiod and the Muse, Gustave Moreau, 1891

The Battle Between the Gods and the Giants, Joachim Wtewael, 1600

Sunrise, Northport Harbor, Arthur Dove, 1929

Going on a little break to recharge my batteries. Will be back soon.

The Finding of Moses, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1904

A Presocratic's View of Godhead

Scouts Climbing a Mountain, Frederic Remington, 1889

Dog on a Log, Winslow Homer, 1889

Old Man Reading by Candlelight, Godfried Schalcken, ca. 1700

The Healing of the Paralytic at Bethesda, unknown Netherlandish artist, ca. 1560

Dante and Beatrice, Salvatore Postiglione (1861-1906)

Study of Autumn Leaves, Louis Grube, 1896

Joseph in Egypt, Jacopo Pontormo, 1515-18

The Lone Tenement, George Bellows, 1909

I don't mind at all. I'm doing okay. Keeping busy.

Ancient Egyptian stele (painted wood) showing a certain Ankh-auf-Mut adoring the seated deity Osiris. Artist unknown; Third Intermediate Period. Now in the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA.

The Passing of Youth

A figure holding two tridents stands between horses. The scene has been interpreted as ritual horse-sacrifice, though this is not certain. Ancient Greek pottery fragment in the Geometric style, dating to the Archaic period (8th century BCE) and located in the Archaeological Museum of Argos. Photo credit: Zde/Wikimedia Commons.