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Hear What Homer’s Odyssey Sounded Like When Sung in the Original Ancient Greek
about 17 hours ago
Image via Wikimedia Commons It’s been a humanist truism for some time...
How a 13th-Century Monk Created a Prayer Manuscript by Writing Over—and Accidentally Preserving—Archimedes’ Groundbreaking Mathematical Works
about 16 hours ago
In Jerusalem of the year 1229, there lived a Greek Orthodox monk...
Christopher Hitchens Explains Why Homer’s Odyssey Still Matters to Our World (2000)
1 day ago
At the moment, the answer to the question of why we should...
What Miles Davis Taught Herbie Hancock: In Music, as in Life, There Are No Mistakes, Just Chances to Improvise
1 day ago
One of my favorite Brian Eno quotes, or rather one that became...
Christopher Nolan Picks 15 Favorite Films from the Criterion Closet
3 days ago
Maybe you’ve already seen Christopher Nolan’s new cinematic interpretation of the Odyssey...
The Essence of Hayao Miyazaki Films: A Short Documentary About the Humanity at the Heart of His Animation
3 days ago
Filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki detests being referred to as the Japanese Walt Disney....
19th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints Creatively Illustrate the Inner Workings of the Human Body
6 days ago
Folks with a passing knowledge of ukiyo‑e, the Japanese woodblock print art...
Where Did Europe’s Countries—and the United Kingdom—Get Their Names?
6 days ago
The typical student traveling on a Eurail pass will stop in such...
How Did Everything Begin?: Animations on the Origins of the Universe Narrated by X‑Files Star Gillian Anderson
7 days ago
We previously brought you the BBC series of short animated videos, A...
A Free Online Archive Lets You Explore 5.8 Million Works of Art Spanning 5,000 Years of History
7 days ago
Though it’s traditionally meant “last in a progression or series,” as Merriam-Webster...
Umberto Eco’s Personal Library Opens to the Public: More Than 32,000 Books, Exactly as He Left Them
7 days ago
Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose sold so well that its...
Jimi Hendrix Plays “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” for The Beatles, Just Three Days After the Album’s Release (1967)
8 days ago
There are many ways to celebrate a new album from a band...