The Mills Brothers
Busbee Berkeley
Bessie Smith
Nicky Hopkins
Hillary Mantel
Pablo Picasso
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Lucretius
Geoffrey Chaucer
Lenny White
Bob Dylan
Harry Smith
Charlie Parker
Jonathon Swift
George Frideric Handel
John Keats
Oscar Peterson
George Clinton
Booker T. Jones
The Commodores
Giacomo Puccini
Victor Fleming
Federico Fellini
Joel Cohn
Jasper Johns
Ennio Morricone
Ahmet Ertegun
Dock Boggs
Wes Anderson
Sandro Botticelli
Louis Armstrong
Roy Lichtenstein
ZZ Top
Fats Waller
Pink Floyd
Olivier Messiaen
Brian Jones
Luke Jordan
Tito Puente
Jimi Hendrix
Brian Eno
Howlin’ Wolf
Burt Bacharach
Thomas Hardy
Dave Edmunds
Bob Marley
Mark E Smith
Jimmy Page
Gallileo Gallilei
Keith Richards
Martin Scorsese
The Velvet Underground
Homer
Hayao Miyazaki
Buck Owens
Derek Parfit
Igor Stravinsky
Aubrey Beardsley
Johann Sebastian Bach
Christopher Nolan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Jackson Pollock
REM
B. B. King
Scotty Moore
Duke Ellington
Art Tatum
Roz Chast
Nirvana
Ravi Shankar
Leon Russell
Mary Pickford
Cocteau Twins
Francis Ford Coppola
Mick Taylor
Alla Rakha
Richard Pryor
J. M. W. Turner
Richard Wagner
Talking Heads
Steve Cropper
Mark Rothko
Robert Johnson
Alfred Hitchcock
Wilson Picket
Herbie Hancock
The White Stripes
Muddy Waters
Gustave Mahler
Marcel Duchamp
Sonny Boy Williamson
Stephen Spielberg
Vincent van Gogh
David Melnick
James Tate
Kurt Weill
John le Carré
Sophocles
Richard Lester
William Wordsworth
Giuseppe Verdi
John Adams
Leonardo da Vinci
John Peel
Robert Schumann
Franz Joseph Haydn
Mary Cassatt
Ringo Starr
Franz Schubert
The Comedian Harmonists
Sonny Rollins
Bill Monroe
John Coltrane
William Blake
Mick Herron
The Gap Band
Wayne Shorter
James Joyce
Bill Irwin
Elaine Pagels
Portishead
The Doors
Cannonball Adderley
Allen Ginsberg
Martha Reeves
Stevie Wonder
Thomas Grey
Buster Keaton
Gene Wilder
Ella Fitzgerald
Richard D. James
Tina Turner
The Gorillaz
Mary Shelley
Dizzy Gillespie
William Butler Yeats
Charles Dickens
Henry Fielding
John Lennon
Robert Fripp
Jean Cocteau
The Isley Brothers
Mark Rylance
Alexander Pope
Mick Jagger
John Paul Jones
Django Reinhardt
Thomas Mann
James Brown
Robert Frost
Sappho
Rembrandt van Rijn
Big Mama Thornton
Henryk Górecki
Elmore James
Count Basie
Robert Rauschenberg
Cream
Frank Oz
Ethan Cohn
Aretha Franklin
Galen Strawson
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Claude Monet
Andres Serrano
Raphael
Samuel Johnson
Charles Baudelaire
Dolly Parton
Gustave Moreau
Judy Dench
Jan Hammer
Ingmar Bergman
Willy Nelson
Andy Warhol
Oscar Wilde
Paul McCartney
Miles Davis
Billie Holliday
The B-52s
Socrates
Kool & the Gang
James McNeill Whistler
Stanley Kubrick
Gioachino Rossini
Sally Cruikshank
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Walter Benjamin
Gene Krupa
Johnny Cash
Joe Zawinul
Dick Dale
Emily Dickinson
The Kinks
Pixies
Ray Charles
Lou Reed
Chick Correa
Gustave Flaubert
Franz Kafka
Lester Young
Billy Preston
John Milton
Stéphane Grappelli
Ogden Nash
Jimmy Reed
Doc Watson
Buddy Holly
Epictetus
Dick Justice
Theodor Adorno
Jane Austen
Titian
Toots and the Maytals
Kraftwerk
The Grateful Dead
The New York Dolls
Denzel Washington
Ian Stewart
Willem de Kooning
The Pretenders
John Ashbery
Iggy Pop
The Hollies
Oscar Wilde
Leo Tolstoy
Laurie Anderson
Mel Brooks
Walt Whitman
The Jefferson Airplane
Philip Kerr
The Chemical Brothers
Lewis Carrol
Henri Matisse
George Martin
Elvis Presley
Madeleine Kahn
Jellyroll Morton
Jürgen Habermas
Jeff Beck
Nile Rodgers
Tom Jones
Anne Carson
Frank Zappa
Gladys Knight
Steven Spielberg
Yoko Ono
Charley Patton
W. H. Auden
Patty Smith
Ernst Lubitsch
Davis Bowie
Thelonius Monk
The Ramones
Björk
Billy Wilder
Mike Leigh
Will Durant
John McLoughlin
Ludwig van Beethoven
Heironymus Bosch
Etta James
Jimmie Rodgers
Yukio Mishima
Maybelle Carter
George Harrison
Preston Sturges
Ian McKellan
George Miller
George Eliot
Willy Dixon
Jim Henson
Édouard Manet
Toni Morrison
Thomas Pynchon
Seneca
Camille Pissarro
Jason Thibodeau
Nino Rota
Eurypides
Rem Koolhaas
Lefty Frizzell
Ali Akbar Khan
Werner Herzog
Wallace Stevens
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Ohio Players
Arthur Rimbaud
Charles Chaplin
John Corigliano
Patti LaBelle
Desmond Dekker
Harold Lloyd
Merle Haggard
Frances McDormand
Charley Watts
Francis Bacon
Elvis Costello
The Specials
Al Green

2 responses to “Thermopylae”

  1. detectivenoisily9a7da201fb Avatar
    detectivenoisily9a7da201fb

    Glad to see a few of my favorites: Dylan, Pissaro, Kafka, Mann Where’s Tolstoy?

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    1. Greg "DK" Kelley Avatar
      Greg “DK” Kelley

      Yeah! Where the hell is Tolstoy!! Sheesh. Good eye, noisi!

      I love list-poems. Indeed, I love almost any poem that makes people say, Is that a poem? But in my anxiety to get it to exactly 300 (the 300 of Thermopylae, get it?), oversights are likely.

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