In Popular Culture
In Robert Graves books, I, Claudius and Claudius the God, Roman Empress Livia Drusilla charged her with incest with her late father and she committed suicide.
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“Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.”
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“The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)