"Athena" by Amy Clampitt

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Topics discussed in this episode include:

-No Versecraft next week! :(

-R.S. Gwynn

-On late-bloomers in poetry

-What Krishna meant

-The life-changing power of the unicorn tapestries

-The Amy Clampitt Residency Program and Virginia Konchan

-The "Tails To Heads" Maneuver.

-"The Eumenides" by Aeschylus

-We're gonna need to see some Id

-Pathos, Bathos, and whoever the other musketeers are...
-Alicia Stallings' wonderful essay on the Parthenon, "Frieze Frame"

-I just really wanted an excuse to say "apotropaic"

-Every culture on earth seems to have beef with snakes

-The cultural appropriation of Chaos

-You Kant always get what you want

-The deep logic of tragedy

-We are ourselves both god and monster.

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List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)