Leonidas Bouritsas

Greek/US citizen; SOAS; CUNY PhD Philosophy; fmr Stevens Tech Professor & Advisor to the Prime Minister/Hellenic Republic.
US Peace Corps Volunteer (Aug. '25).

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The young Martha Graham who upon being instructed to move center-stage quipped back "center-stage is wherever I happen to be" apparently knew her Protagoras though not by name.

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https://t.co/vPyipPLwYP: Oedipus Again - Nothing is Written: Tragedy, History, Cinema, Civilization eBook : Bouritsas, Leonidas: Kindle Store https://t.co/0vQ7TdsMR0

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"You say your life has been hanging by a thread far too long. But if you're right, then it's not just a thread, is it? It's actually a line; a lifeline. So, keep it."

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Isn't it a line from Michelangelo Antonioni's 1964 IL DESERTO ROSSO?
Giuliana: "What should I do with my eyes? What should I look at?"
Corrado: "... I ask how I should live. It's the same thing."

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The owl already knows it, but what if the stealthiest element in Western civilization's multi-millennium superiority & vulnerability is captured best by the phrase 'it's all in the eye of the beholder'?

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Certainly sharp Protagorean subjectivity at its finest, all the while inviting the question 'what shapes the eye to begin with?'

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"Not raw voluntarism yet; just sheer logic: there may be a limit to what man can do, but there is no limit to what man can try. So, mind that gap."

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The riddle thus becomes even sharper: it's not merely that no woman stands with Achilles, but that the very idea of such a woman — one semantically linked to masculine combat — is denied him, while granted in full tragic measure to the man he kills.

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"Name the Andromache that is standing by Achilles.

Exactly."

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[Etymology:
• ἀνήρ / ἀνδρός (anēr / andros) → "man" (genitive form used in compounds, referring to an adult male, husband, or warrior)
• μάχη (máchē) → "battle", "fight", "combat"]

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@FrenchOG3 Such a long & thoughtful piece on a question that cuts across so many modern boundaries, and yet no mention of sex head on.

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"Not a negligible paradox, hiding within the heart of the humanities & the liberal arts in academia: when, on a good day, they go canonical, most of their iconic personalities, Homer to Shakespeare to Dickinson to Borges, prove impossible to reproduce & unwilling to attend."

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"More precisely, hell is [to inhabit] other people['s thoughts]."

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@AlanWattsQuot An excellent start; or rather a finish, given that it presupposes having actually "looked at both sides of life."

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@DearS_o_n "To sleep - perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub!"

Hamlet (1602)

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@clownworld (Gilded Medusa figurehead carved on a ship's bow recently given an extra golden coat of paint while sailing on a lake, most likely Vixen Lake).

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@clownworld Miss Goldie Vixenlake

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@ThrillaRilla369 "What? No barbarians / easy solution?"

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