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Reading up for my recent post about the archaic notion of justice, I was reminded of an excellent article also by E.R. Dodds, called "...

I just want to link this post about the "interpretations" Dante has been getting recently in Italy-- where's this stuff in th...

The opening lines of this post are enough to pique the interest of any Iliad -lover. One of the most interesting things about reading the ...

Scientists have discovered a new planet! This short article discusses the find. I'm disappointed in the name, TrES-4. Since it is bi...

At the end of January, a friend of mine working in Athens emailed me to alert me to a campaign to add Cypriot coins to the agreement with Cy...

I want to recommend this article , linked through Arts & Letters Daily . It's about Shakespeare's universality and the receptio...

Can you picture Dante, or his famous profile? His iconography is pretty static, yet now new research has concluded that his famous straight ...

I admit, my first exposure to Archimedes was through Merlin's pet owl in The Sword in the Stone , but it's the classicist in me that...

I found on the Drudge Report today a link entitled, "Ancient Book May Be Covered in Human Skin..." This piqued my interested, be...