The owl's legacy

Symposium, or accepted ideas

Olympics, or imaginary Greece

Democracy, or the city of dreams

Nostalgia, or the impossible return

Amnesia, or history on the march

Mathematics, or the empire counts back

Logomachy, or the dialect of the tribe

Music, or inner space

Cosmogony, or the ways of the world

Mythology, or lies like truth

Misogyny, or the snares of desire

Tragedy, or the illusion of death

Philosophy, or the triumph of the owl.