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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...
Arlene Saxonhouse on mythmakers.
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...
[…] The post Ancient Crave-worthy Wisdom in Greek and Biblical Literature appeared first on Jewish Journal.
Arches, gladiatorial fights, portraits on money, flattery. What century is this?
The intellectual foundation of the United States has been, since its inception, and remains deeply anchored in classical Greek culture and political philosophy.
Greek National Opera's Medea in the ancient theater at Epidaurus is an intermittently rewarding exercise in nostalgia.
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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The Twelve Labours of Hercules occupy a special place in the pantheon of Greek mythology, exemplifying the ancient beliefs of the Greeks.
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.
Soprano Amanda Forsythe as Ilia and tenor David Portillo in the titular role were highlights of Washington Concert Opera’s robust Idomeneo.
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...
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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Explore the world of The Odyssey and other Greek Mythology-inspired tales in these graphic novels.
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...
The world’s most famous epic has something for every reader.
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...
In the spirit of Shakespeare, a blank verse review of the event. By JENNIFER GEORGIA (with profound apologies to the Bard)
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.
“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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