Hampden College

❦ Hampden, Vermont ❦ Established 1895 ❦

[the-evil-clergyman]

Bacchus and a Panther (Italian 16th-17th Century)

[coraltigerpizza-deactivated2021]

Frederic Leighton. Pan, 1856

[hampden-college]

Cover art design for Donna Tartt’s The Secret History by David Higdon.

[thereminsoul]

[illustratus]

Head of Dionysus, the god of wine, uncovered in an archaeological dig in the ancient city of Aizanoi, Turkey

[didoofcarthage]

Bacchus, plate 1 from the series Bacchus, Venus, and Ceres, by Hendrick Goltzius

Dutch, c. 1595

engraving

Philadelphia Museum of Art 

[arjuna-vallabha]

Sunrise at Apollo temple, Side, Turkey

[m-shelki]

"And there she was: in impeccable navy jacket, starched shirt and grey pants, with vivid red lipstick perfectly matching her nail polish. She was witty, warm and communicative, and her love of fashion was genuine. Maybe this is why we struck up a friendship. When she’s in the city we might walk in the park, see mutual friends, have a shopping spree, or go out for dinner or a drink, and laughing and talking all the while about any subject imaginable, serious as well as frivolous. Donna loves French restaurants, as well the great old American dining staples (she held her Pulitzer dinner which I attended, in a beautiful room in 21), and she also has a passion for independent theaters and bookstores. She writes emails with red ink and sends postcards – nowadays almost an archeological treasure – and gives as presents rare, precious books and Viennese cookies. She is disciplined and eccentric, private and yet very friendly: a true rara avis, one of a kind. "

Grazia d'Annunzio about Donna Tartt.

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donna tartt in an interview with town and country magazine

[hadrian6]

View of the Pantheon - Rome. 1810. Franz Kaisermann. Swiss 1765-1833. pen and watercolor.      http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

[silindro]

Henri Francois Brandt, Bertel Thorvaldsen, c. 1817

[gayartists]

Meditation (1897), William de Leftwich Dodge

[stonemen]

Bacchus Feeding a Panther, John Deare, 1792, (detail). Art Institute of Chicago: European Painting and Sculpture

[starrywisdomsect]

Oedipus Rex  (1957)

This adaptation of Sophocles’ tragedy (in a translation by William Butler Yeats) looks almost the way it would have when staged in the 5th century BC. Stentorian oration and carefully posed tableaux abound, giving the film an uncanny atmosphere somewhere between a black mass and puppet theater.

[hampden-college]

So, Hampden, I'm obviously the best person in the Greek Class, right?

That would depend entirely on which criteria were used to evaluate which Classics student was the "best." From a purely academic viewpoint the answer is unequivocally no. Unfortunately, by the standards of "best-dressed" or "sexiest" you're also outclassed by several of your pupils, most notably Francis.

As a consolation, consider that you are in fact the student "most likely to consume an entire plate of poisonous mushrooms without noticing."

@therealbunnycorcoran

[artist-mantegna]

Bacchanal with a wine-press, Andrea Mantegna, 15th century, Harvard Art Museums: Prints

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/278529

[luxobnubilata]

James Robertson - Temple of Jupiter, Athens, 1862