Hermes’s Shadow: Death and Spectacle in “Those About to Die”
Introduction The sands of the world in “These About to Die” are stained crimson, not simply with the blood of gladiators, but in addition with the unstated presence of a god. A god of transitions, messages, and the fragile passage between worlds: Hermes. Whereas not a personality explicitly named or depicted, Hermes’s affect, a refined…
