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Common Greek Myths Found Throughout Art History
Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...
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The Fascinating Art of Ancient Greek Bread Baking and Its 72 Varieties
The ancient Greeks used to make a wide variety of breads, as they considered it to be of great importance in their eating ...
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Ancient Greek vs. Roman Religion: What’s the Difference?
The religions of the ancient Greeks and the ancient Romans, often simply called “classical religion,” are often viewed as ...
Don’t underestimate Cupid – he’s not the chubby cherub you associate with Valentine’s Day
Ancient Greece and Rome may have handed down the image of rosy-cheeked Cupids, but their myths about him explore the messier ...
The unspoilt Italian city where Byron fell in love
If you’re fed up with the crowds in Venice, head to Ravenna, with its dazzling mosaics and evocative museum dedicated to the ...
Numbers, please! Shortest month of the year – How February came to have 28 days
The modern calendar has Roman Catholic roots. As the sun does not adhere exactly to the earthly calendar, leap days are ...
Reliving the Peculiar Nationalist Occupation of Rijeka in Adventurous Hybrid Doc ‘Fiume o morte!’
Igor Bezinović puts a spotlight on his hometown under Italian poet-officer Gabriele D’Annunzio, saying U.S. viewers may notice "parallels" to Donald Trump in his film, which debuts at Rotterdam.
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What’s the Roman salute? Here’s the history of Musk’s controversial hand gesture
The Roman salute’s journey towards being inextricably associated with far-right politics began when a movement led by the Italian poet and nationalist Gabriele D’Annunzio occupied the then ...
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A Novelist Who Looks Into the Dark
Ali Smith scrambles plotlines, upends characters, and flouts chronology—while telling propulsively readable stories.
What the mythical Cupid can teach us about the meaning of love and desire
A scholar of early Greek classics explains what the myth of the weapon-carrying god of love, Cupid, a child of the gods of ...
The Conversation22d
Guide to the classics: Aristotle’s Poetics is a bible for screenwriters – but it’s often misread
massaged Aristotle’s ideas to align more closely to the Roman poet Horace’s later treatise on the same subject, The Art of Poetry. The terms that do genuinely originate within the Poetics are ...
Martyrs? Bacchanalia? Chaucer? Delving into the murky origins of Valentine’s Day
According to one legend, Pope Gelasius wanted to put an end to the debauchery in the late fifth century. He declared Feb. 14 as the feast day of a St. Valentine, who had been martyred about 200 years ...