Dylan Lidell
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Biography
Dylan has a PhD in Ancient literature and has taught Ancient Greek, Latin, and mythology at various levels. He likes hiking and coffee and spending time with his 5 year old daughter. He enjoys writing because it can be organic and exhilarating. When reading fiction, he likes Karl Ove Knausgaard, Donna Tartt, Brett Easton Ellis, and many others. His non-fiction interests often revolve around his previous course of study: ancient stuff. He has also spent time living in Germany and studying the German language and culture.
Non-Fiction, Biography & Memoir, History, Humor & Entertainment, Parenting & Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Politics & Current Affairs
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Cruel Greek gods
Of all the beautiful written words that survive from Ancient Greece, the playwright Sophocles gives us, perhaps, the truest Greek sentiment when he says that the best thing of all is to never have been born, but, if that is not possible, die quickly and get under the earth fast. This pessimistic thought comes from the era before Socrates was born and before the Acropolis was built. This stark idea comes from the Greek Dark Ages—the cultural cauldron of Greek myths. It was a brutal period where very little was built or written down and a time truly summed up by Sophocles’ saying. We will see...
Serial Killers
Most fictionalizations of serial killing transform the criminal into a non-human, embodiment of evil. Sometimes this is achieved by recourse to the term “monster” or bestial characterization, such as Hannibal from Silence of the Lambs). Often this transformation is achieved by obscuring the killer’s motivations, ascribing the murders to “unknown motives” or “unknown reasons.” By placing these acts beyond understanding, such representations deny the contribution of culture to the creation of serial killers. By contribution, I refer to any possible factors which may lead to the existence of s...
HBO's The Leftovers
HBO’s, The Leftovers, has been one of television’s bolder recent dramas. Though set in a present very much like our own, it takes place a few years after two percent of the world’s population suddenly, and inexplicably, vanishes, an event termed the ‘sudden departure.’ The show does not pull any punches in its depiction of this grim alternative reality. The show contains bizarre cults, overblown government institutions, nuclear attacks, and perhaps television’s finest descent into the Underworld since The Sopranos. Amidst this chaos, the show never entirely answers the ‘what’ of this sudden...
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