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Poetry of Sport

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016
Pelops wished to marry Hippodameia, the daughter of Oinomaos, who had decreed that any prospective suitor must win a chariot race against him or lose his own head (and who had already killed 13 of his daughter’s suitors, according to Pindar)....

The Hindu Prize 2015 Shortlist

Edit The Hindu 20 Nov 2015
Seahorse by Janice Pariat For its retelling of the myth of Poseidon and Pelops as a beautiful coming-of-age tale, its lyrical intensity, its moving narration that makes the reader intensely aware of loss, rediscovery, love and healing Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy For its evocative style, its critiques of violence, religious hypocrisy and ......

Robertson Dean's adaptation of 'Antigone' is a worthy update of a classic

Edit The Examiner 01 Oct 2015
Anouilh's purpose was not to look at the past, but at the present and the problems of loyalty during times of war ... Oedipus was both the son and the murderer of Laius ... In mythology, there was a curse upon the house of Laius, King of Thebes because when his thrown was usurped, he sought refuge with Pelops, the king of Pisa, but Laius betrayed his host by kidnapping the son of Pelops, Chrysippus, and raping him ... Jean Anouilh’s Antigone ... ....

Memory's quality

Edit Deccan Herald 07 Mar 2015
A characteristic quality of memory is its availability. Faced with assembly lines of information and the protean slipperiness of the past that makes it difficult to pin it down with a finger of honesty, fiction is the answer to keeping our lives whole ... Everything opens in medias res, he says, opening his story “in the midst of things” ... Nicholas and Nem are like Gautama Buddha and Ananda, Poseidon and Pelops ... She smiled ... ....

In conversation with Janice Pariat

Edit DNA India 24 Jan 2015
As a young girl, Janice Pariat loved Enid Blyton. She was so attached to the stories that she plagiarised them freely. “I would pick up these stories and rewrite them in my own way. I would copy characters, adventures…everything, without any shame,” she says. The excited little girl would then rush home to show them to her parents ...   ... It is a retelling of the Greek tale of Poseidon and his male devotee Pelops ... ....

Seamless love

Edit The Hindu 21 Jan 2015
Tender, lyrical and deeply reflective — Seahorse — Janice Pariat’s novel, is a re-telling of story of the Greek sea god Poseidon and his young male lover, Pelops. A chance encounter with art historian and mentor Nicholas Petrou, at Delhi University, leads Nehemiah aka Nem on a journey of pleasure and artistic discovery, also marked by betrayal and loss ... But it grew way beyond that ... I was captivated by Nehemiah....

TV View: Gunners have no rascals, while the little rascals feed Mars bars to horses

Edit The Irish Times 19 Jan 2015
He had been in a right cranky mood too, something about the race his fella won being in the same week as the Thyestes, which presumably is a race too, and not just the son of Pelops and Hippodamia (thank you Wiki) ... “It’s a passion, it’s something you want to do ‘til you die,” he said, his anger about Pelops and Hippodamia’s lad abating, and he was further chuffed when Kevin Prendergast’s Katie T won the BoyleSports Hurdle ... ... ....

Between the covers

Edit The Hindu 18 Jan 2015
Readings are a startling way to discover a book, through the author's own voice. Read the way it was originally written, it is like tasting a variant of a dish you’ve eaten before — and appreciating the nuances ... Inspired by one of the lesser-known Greek myths about Poseidon and his affection for a young boy named Pelops, Seahorse is Pariat’s retelling, set in contemporary London and 1990s Delhi ... Keywords....

How (Not) to Repeat History

Edit Huffington Post 16 Nov 2014
I wonder if we have it wrong. The philosopher George Santayana warned ... Maybe that sets it up exactly backward ... The father of Atreus, Pelops, won his wife in a chariot race to the death that was fixed so his competitor, her father, would be the loser. The father of Pelops, Tantalus, appears to have initiated the misery by slaying his son in order to test whether the gods were omniscient, feeding the bits of his body to them ... ....

Looking for landscapes

Edit The Hindu 03 Oct 2014
How did you find Seahorse’s plot?. Seahorse is a contemporary retelling of a Greek myth concerning Poseidon, the god of the sea, and his relationship with a young beautiful male devotee named Pelops ... What appealed to you, to inspire you to weave the story of Poseidon and Pelops into Seahorse ... Pelops is killed by his father Tantalus, and (quite literally) served up to the gods at a feast ... What happens to all of us in life ... Keywords....
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Motorcycle tours of Greece scheduled for summer

Motorcycle tours of Greece scheduled for summer

Edit The Examiner 03 Aug 2014
For those looking for a bit more adventure when motorcycling, MotoVoyager is offering guided tours of Greece. There are currently three package tours to choose from. Achilles Land, Olympic Tour, and Marathon Tour. MotoVoyager plans to add a Tour of Crete in 2014 ... Peloponnese translates to “the island of king Pelops” who is considered by many to be the founder and creator of the Olympic Games....
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