Biography: EVA PALMER SIKELIANOS: A LIFE IN RUINS
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General) North American (US Mid-Atlantic)Transcript
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She was the only ancient Greek I ever knew. She had a strange power of entering the minds of the ancients and bringing them to life again. She knew everything about them, how they walked and talked in the marketplace, how they latched their shoes, how they arranged the folds of their gowns when they arose from table and what songs they sang and how they danced and how they went to bed. I don't know how she knew these things, but she did. How indeed, How did she know these things? She did. What was her special brand of knowledge? How did she cultivate it, and how did she deploy it? What were her activities, practices and techniques? The tribute expresses appreciation. Not only forever, Palmer sick, Liano says total mastery of a set of arcane matters how the ancients walked, talked, latched their shoes and so on, but also for her strange power of replicating unknowable processes and bringing them into present life. Her strangeness was an integral part of her performance, and it caused in those who observed her wearing ancient Greek dress in her daily life, a degree of nervousness. As Simon Gold Hill observes, the importation of lost Greek ways into modern life signaled a distinct, untimely nous to borrow an idea used by Nietzsche to express the will to act counter to our time by acting on our time. Andi, let us hope for the benefit of our time like needs, Jehu, she read. All her life, Palmer immersed herself in Greek traditions to try to develop an oppositional aspect like him, to her oppositional stance by the Greeks placed her in familiar ideological currents of 20th century modernity. As an anti modernist who felt the spirit of the times diminished, she moved from individualism to collectivism, modernism to traditionalism, white Anglo cosmopolitanism, anti Semitism and proto fascism to anti colonialism, anti fascism, progressivism, internationalism and possibly communism.