Pietro (Piero) Pucci, an influential classical scholar who spent more than 50 years in the Department of Classics in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) while maintaining a place among leading inte...
04.23.2024 Cornell.eduThe Belgian city of Ghent is hosting a festival dedicated to ancient Greek drama, presenting the entire canon of 32 surviving plays on the streets of the city, free of charge, from May 1 to June 23. T...
04.24.2024 Ekathimerini.com and 1 sitesTo paraphrase Taylor Swift, some things just never go out of style. Such is the case with the varied tales of Greek mythology, which have been with us in some form or other for thousands of years, fro...
04.22.2024 Pastemagazine.com and 1 sitesA team co-led by a CU Boulder classics researcher has unearthed the upper portion of a huge, ancient pharaonic statue whose lower half was discovered in 1930; Ramesses II was immortalized in Percy Bys...
04.25.2024 Phys.orgAnna O **** Matthew Blake HarperCollins Medical psychological thrillers are a tough pitch. The facts, the sci-fi mystery, the whodunnit twists, and the characters have to balance each other out without one being more in the foreground than the other. There can be no info dumping, where the reader gets lost in all the facts and jargon. Michael Crichton got it right in a few of his books, and recently Alex Michaelides was praised for doing the same in his best-seller, The Silent Patient . New on t...
04.21.2024 Timeslive.co.zaA chance find in a Tumut backyard at the weekend has illuminated the wartime service of a young farmer from the district 110 years after he enlisted to fight with the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) i...
04.25.2024 Aboutregional.com.auCarmelo Fucarino passed away in Palermo. He was a teacher of Latin and Greek language and literature at the Garibaldi high school from 1980 to 1997. A great scholar, he loved poetry and published poem...
04.24.2024 News.italy24.pressEuripides, Orestes 823-824 (tr. David Kovacs): This is the elaborately dressed godlessness of knaves, and the mad behavior of fools. τόδ᾽ αὖ κακούργων ἀσέβεια ποικίλα κακοφρόνων τ᾽ ἀνδρῶν παράνοια. # ...
04.22.2024 Laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.comA golden curtain closes the light of the proscenium. Up front the protagonist performs a very sensual dance to the tune of a jazz club version of Je crois entendre encore the famous novel by Les pêche...
04.26.2024 News.italy24.pressWould a return to my hometown after 20 years in and around New York prove the perfect move for a mom determined to say “yes” and kindle community? Here’s how it went for me. By Molly Campe, Public Source This article was originally published by Publi...
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