Onward!

Onward...(photo, South side of Chicago, by John H. White)

Muse upon the Muses! Track the progress of the arts and sciences here!

Comedy

Groucho Marx → Bob Hope → Woody Allen → Adam Sandler

Dance

Hindu Classical Dance → Formal Court Ballet → Nijinsky → Nureyev → Baryshnikov → Free Form Frog-leg

Elegiac Poetry

Tristia (Ovid) → ‘O Captain! My Captain!‘ (Whitman) → Duino Elegies (Rilke) → ?

Epic Poetry

The Odyssey by Homer → The Aeneid by Virgil → The Comedy by Dante → ? The Cantos by Ezra Pound → ?

Historical writing

The Peloponnesian War (Thucydides) → Annals (Tacitus) → The Twelve Caesars (Suetonius) → Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World (Kurlansky)

Painting

Michelangelo → Velázquez → Dali → Rothko

The Reporter in Film

His Girl Friday → Elmer Gantry → All the President’s Men → Spotlight

Romance at the Opera

The Ring of the Nibelungen → Lulu → The Divorce