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csmonitor.com /6 days ago

A modern epic where Greece is the word

The Monitor recently convened a panel of experts on the classics. Here’s what we learned. 

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kirkusreviews.com /1 month ago

TALKING CLASSICS

Someone who taught ancient Greek and Roman culture at Cambridge for 50 years isn’t going to say there is no point, but Beard is quick to assure readers, in the breezy tone familiar...

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shigovoicelessons.com /1 month ago

To Rome We Must Go

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churchlifejournal.nd.edu /1 week ago

Beyond the Modern Myths of Ancient Athens

Arlene Saxonhouse on mythmakers.

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openculture.com /1 month ago

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Egyptian Mummy Buried with Pages from Homer’s Iliad: When Literature Guided Souls Throug...

Renaissance Europe admired ancient Rome, ancient Rome admired ancient Greece, and ancient Greece admired ancient Egypt. But the admiration could actually go both ways in that last...

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jewishjournal.com /4 weeks ago

Ancient Crave-worthy Wisdom in Greek and Biblical Literature

[…] The post Ancient Crave-worthy Wisdom in Greek and Biblical Literature appeared first on Jewish Journal.

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nytimes.com /1 week ago

Mary Beard Looks at Trump and Sees Roman Emperors

Arches, gladiatorial fights, portraits on money, flattery. What century is this?

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ekathimerini.com /1 week ago

How Ancient Greek culture shaped the founding of the USA

The intellectual foundation of the United States has been, since its inception, and remains deeply anchored in classical Greek culture and political philosophy.

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parterre.com /2 weeks ago

Aegean in place

Greek National Opera's Medea in the ancient theater at Epidaurus is an intermittently rewarding exercise in nostalgia.

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openculture.com /1 month ago

The Largest Bookshelf Tour Ever Filmed: Inside a Classicist’s 20,000-Volume Library

If you grew up in the last few generations, chances are you didn’t get much of an education, if any, in Latin or ancient Greek. One long-made argument for phasing them out of curri...

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writeoutloud.net /1 month ago

SHAKESPEARE'S LITTLE HELPERS

SHAKESPEARE’S LITTLE HELPERS ...

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greekreporter.com /1 week ago

Twelve Labors of Hercules Exemplify Greek Mythology

The Twelve Labours of Hercules occupy a special place in the pantheon of Greek mythology, exemplifying the ancient beliefs of the Greeks.

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kathimerini.gr /1 week ago

Ο Εγχέσπαλος, ο Τραϊανός και η Μαρία Αντουανέτα

Πιάνοντας το νήμα από εκεί όπου το άφησα με την προηγούμενη «Αναμόχλευση», λίγα ακόμα σαιξπηρικά, αυτή τη φορά σχετικά με τις ελληνικές αποδόσεις του ονόματος του βάρδου.

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parterre.com /1 month ago

Crete-ed rivalry

Soprano Amanda Forsythe as Ilia and tenor David Portillo in the titular role were highlights of Washington Concert Opera’s robust Idomeneo.

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ekathimerini.com /1 month ago

Tearing Aristophanes apart, gently

The first time he saw the play “Peace” by Aristophanes was at Athens’ Herod Atticus Theater in the mid-1980s, in a production directed by the legendary Spyros Evangelatos, inspired...

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boingboing.net /3 weeks ago

For centuries, a cracked Egyptian statue sang at dawn

The Colossi of Memnon are "two large stone statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III" that have stood on the west bank of the...

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jigsawplanet.com /4 weeks ago

I was with Hercules and Cadmus once

Pieces: 96Author: EcclesiastesPlay

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bookriot.com /1 day ago

Before You See The Odyssey, Catch Up On Your Greek Mythology With These Comic Book Retellings

Explore the world of The Odyssey and other Greek Mythology-inspired tales in these graphic novels.

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illustrationart.blogspot.com /2 days ago

TRIBUTE TO AN ILLUSTRATED BOOK, part 3

The False Gods by George Horace Lorimer was illustrated in 1906 by a young J.C. Leyendecker.  It is not mentioned in any of the reference books on Leyendecker.1906 was an interesti...

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nytimes.com /1 week ago

Romantasy, Sci-Fi, Ghost Story, High-Seas Adventure: It’s All in the ‘Odyssey’!

The world’s most famous epic has something for every reader.

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theatrecat.com /4 weeks ago

VENUS AND ADONIS. Oxford Playhouse, then Barbican

BEAUTIFUL      This, to me unexpectedly, was the most beautiful single hour in a  theatre yet.   Visually, musically, and in its majesty and depth of speech impossible to fault, it...

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dctheaterarts.org /1 month ago

A cheeky ode to ‘Will on the Hill’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company

In the spirit of Shakespeare, a blank verse review of the event. By JENNIFER GEORGIA (with profound apologies to the Bard)

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ekathimerini.com /2 days ago

Classics winning over a new generation

If someone had found themselves at Athens’ Cine Paris open-air movie theater on a recent Saturday night, they may have thought they had been transported back to 2001.

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ekathimerini.com /3 weeks ago

Handel and the Greek maestro

“Come to the rehearsal tomorrow,” conductor George Petrou said, as we shared a meal at the Szultenburger, a traditional German tavern (which is actually run by a Greek) in Goetting...

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